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In Reply to: RE: Audiogon's Virtual Systems: New layout wow posted by TitaniumTroy on June 29, 2016 at 20:30:29
Apogee Mania, has some Apogee Acoustic Grands. They look modded to me, but in a world class, professional way. Are these some of Graz's higher end model's?
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Nope, those are original versions of the Grands that belong to a young fellow in Germany named Florian. They only produced a few pairs of those systems and the price will no doubt appreciate through the years.
Dave.
Auditioned the mini grand but not the big one, the dealer didn't keep a demo of the full grand for understandable reasons. It was very impressive but I liked the full panel model on demo (Diva) better. Both magnificent speakers.
The Grand was much more like a Statement product.
http://www.reality-audio.com/the_grand.html
I never had a chance to hear it either, but this system was obviously aimed at audiophiles with ego's (and wallets) the size of a Goodyear blimp.
I doubt they would have sold too many systems even if they stayed in business. :)
Dave.
$85,000 in '96. Taking inflation into account, that's around what the big Wilson's cost now, right? I'd take a big planar over a big cone speaker anyday.
About $130K in today's dollars (but hey- you also got 4 Krell amps thrown in with them).
I've never heard them but I don't doubt they're about as viscous as three way ribbons will ever get in my lifetime...
later used large SETs with the midrange and tweeter sections. He kept the Krells for bass duty.
I remember his documenting the process of installing them in his second story apartment. It literally took a crane to get them up there! Brad (morricab) knows him well.
wow; probably looking at 3,000 lbs in that part of the room; let's hope there's no termites!
Here is a Maggie system with Mini Maggies for the tweeter/midrange and Tympani's used for the woofers. Kind of a yin & yang system, Magnepans largest and smallest models used together.
The TV is dwarfed by the Tympani panels. I'd either get a bigger TV or rid it of the Tympani panels, (probably the former).
2-panel Tympani's look much less likely to fall over than 3-panel one's do.
"2-panel Tympani's look much less likely to fall over than 3-panel one's do."
Tympani IV-As (and/or IVs?) are actually 2 panels (woofers) plus one separate T/M panel. I'm one of the ~450 original owners of a IV-A and although 2 boys and 2 rottweilers grew up around them, they never fell over and remain standing today. In earlier times I was an original owner of a Tympani 1C, which although composed of 3 attached panels, never fell over. So in ~25 years of Tympani ownership there was never a single fall over. OTOH a fast moving rottweiler pushed over a MMG! (No harm came of it, only a small area of the fabric atop one of them shows some scuffing.)
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