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In Reply to: RE: Best speaker for $15K ? posted by Terry on February 27, 2012 at 16:18:35:
>The "Orion 3.5" by Linkwitz Labs.
Orion 4.0. While a brilliant speaker designer Siegfried is not an exceptional furniture maker and his 3.5 cabinet design lacks the finesse that Don Naples brings to the table as an expert furniture maker with 4.0 (he really does lovely work).
You can get plans for 3.5 and build it yourself; 4.0 is available exclusively as a commercial product from Don Naples who is Wood Artistry, LLC although some of us have reverse engineered the cabinet and have projects in various states of completion.
http://www.theorionspeakers.com/
>These are active speakers and require 10 channels of amplification (I use 3 Brystons).
Six with bass drivers wired in parallel. Eight if you opt for an amplifier channel per woofer which should be unnecessary (where the bass drivers have low impedance they're pushing 95dB/2.83V/1 meter so don't take much power and by the time lots of equalization is being applied they're around their resonant peak where impedance is 10s of Ohms with a 0 degree phase angle). Ten are less necessary and would require skipping the single cable Speakon setup that keeps the speaker rear so much more presentable (I switched from four speaker cables after getting married).
>There are no dealers but I know there are several owners in the Toronto area who would probably be happy to invite you over for a listen.
It's purely a made-to-order product - you get your choice of solid hardwoods for side panels and front baffles plus choice of finish or (potentially shop made from the same logs as the rest of the speaker) veneer on the woofer baffles. Gabon ebony trim strips are an option and do a nice job setting off the baffle.
The fully active Beethoven Elite had to sell for $37,500 in 1998 (when the $25K passive version was Stereophile loudspeaker of the year) to cover the dealer markup but wasn't enough for Audio Artistry to make a profit.
>The Orions have been a revelation in my system. I have provided a link to "The Official Seeking Orion Auditions Thread", from the Orion/Pluto users group, which you can use to find owners in your area.
I rather like mine too.
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