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Electrocompaniet "The nordic tone" - model One. - All aluminum cabinet. Seas Drivers. Engineering excellence from Norway! And what a design statement it is! A Adigo AS, Elart Metall AS and and Dr. Mike Newman effort. Per Abrahamsen and Roar Moen etc. All surfaces are curved, spherically so, this increases the stiffness several hundred times versus flat panels. The Nordic Tone is the name of the loudspeakers produced by Electrocompaniet in Norway. http: /www.soundstage 2.com/avtour 2008/he stand electrocompaniet.htm	Vaessen Aquarius - Koen Vaessen's thinking of the speaker with Chick appeal... No, getting real here. A natural sound. All the way!	Ennermoser Archaeopteryx - 18 inch mid/Bass in copper!!! bronze cast frame.	DCA Speaker. Steen Duelunds legacy will live on! - One of the most acurate speakers ever made!
Griffin G 1 - Big stuff! 705 lbs a piece. DSP filters, room correction. 6 channels needed! http: /www.griffinaudiousa.com/	Dynavox Imperial - Using the Altec Lansing 604 L driver. Well I'm contemplating SET these days, so that makes this baby more of a choice! This speaker is one expensive set of marvel! A test conclusion was like this: Halleluja! Can be placed ca a foot from the wall. That's a very good thing! 18.460â‚¬.. Yikes! Unlike a normal speaker this one is built like you would "craft" a violin. A tuned wood body, acting like an instrument.. This is THE speaker to own, if you wanna hear your under 5w tube amp at it's best.. THE speaker to own..! Believe me..! Mia E' Veloce ...	Infinity IRS Sigma - This type of speaker gave me my first audiophile bliss! A full ML 30's system was doing the honors.	Chario Serendipity - Massive dynamics by this beauty.
Rey monitoring 7 MESA RS - Yeah I do like hornspeakers...! Realism, stupendous punch.	The Immersions - By Maxxhorn. Well, looks nice! Never heard, but shure would like too! Also available as "Lumination". That includes a Feastrex D5 "monster alnico instead of the PHL 1240 TWX driver. Said to be a better speaker.	Ennermoser 18 inch copperwoofer. - Cone closeup. Laquered in Ennermoser C 37. Integral part of the Archaeopteryx speaker.	Ennermoser 18 inch copperwoofer - Side view. This baby runs flat out to 3000hz. No crossover. Slam? Derscibed as very fierce in that departement. 100db sensitivity driver. Oh very dang!Bronze frame.
Marten Design Bird. - This speaker I believe is set to become a classic! All who have heard it are simply awestruck! This is just an amazing design!!!	Boenicke Grand Medium - Sideview of a very good fine instrument. Very pricey ... but very well made too! 100db efficient. A masterpiece!	The Maidstone. KEF 109	Tocaro 40 - A Rehdeko "brainchild" speaker. Single driver, no crossover. Very efficient!!!
Thunder puppy - A design by Imperial. Does not exist....... But looks cool eh? Cut paste in paint! Super Clef top. JBL 2245H midbass JBL 2235 subbass. (bassdrivers on picture are different from the JBL's They're just for illustration size 3D depth to the image) Inspired by Aerial 10/20T!	Omicron Stage Coherence - I just like the look of the design!	Omicron Stage Coherence (I) - Oh! This is a beauty! Observe that this has a different mid driver!	Fried Reference Monitor. - Is this the best dynamic speaker on the market? I think it is. Apparently you also can get a "signature" edition of it as well.
Gershman avantgarde rx20 - A hungry little tiger! My favourite "normal" speaker. If you got the power, this baby will sing fantastically!! Gershman recently updated the bassdriver and the filter. That version I have not heard. But i'm sure it's better! And the old one is a blast!!! My favv small floorstanding speaker, all time!!! Mia E' Veloce ...	Westlake Audio Series 2. - BBSM 10f 10swp (series 2). I like the sort of 50's look of this set.	Knock knock... - Knock who? Knockout... Knockout who? The walls... Tannoy Kingdom. Oooohssa........! Dynamic? explosively so...	S.A.P J-2001 Mark II - Spruce beauty 97db sensitive speaker from Italy. Punch madness and extreme clarity! Dynamic like a small nuke. I like this maker of speakers! State of the speaker art!
Respons Grand D (Yup, it's that swede again...) - The Magazine Fidelity (of Norway) features this picture (Taken by Knut Vadseth) in it's test. (I've made a scan, so the picture is a bit "wrong", but you get the general idea of how this speaker looks) "Drool" !!! This speaker is hereby placed in my gallery, and on my personal "Drool" list. Apparently this latest incarnation is bestowed with resolving power of a nature not yet heard! Dang! Extrapyramidal effects are nasty (Drug lingo, if you know of this) As long as the effect is inside the pyramide, it's okay. I think it's a safe bet that no problems will ensue here, only music!	Midgard audio (Norway) "Gaia" - Nice design! Ongoing project. Designer is JÃ¸rn Rune Kviserud Looks really nice! It's a big speaker! Partslist is: 4 X Aurasound 15" 2 X Seas Excel 8", 2 X Seas Excel 4,5" 2 X 2" Dome and 1 X Hiquphon 3/4" Dome Fully active, digital filters, room correction, the lot! A link to a larger image: http: /tinyurl.com/2ww 49d	Weckstrom COMPACT - Okay. All info on this baby is in Finnish...I dont speak that... But I can read it sort of...guess a bit... Really low xo some 1200 - 1500hz?, like amphion really. Dovetail birch cabinet, solid cherry? wood baffle (large wooden blocks glued together) Shielded units. 7 liters cabinet volume.. Designer is an acoustic dude.. Looking at the filter I think it's 12db? The usual Seas alu drivers.. It looks fantastic!!! Must spread really good this baby!	3-way concept drawing. - Front view. Was never built. (drawing made some 10 years ago) But I think it looks kinda cool. (the back is 3 "standing" cylinders in a row.) So in my gallery it goes. It had a 1inch dome, 8 inch mid and 10 inch sub, was to be ca 50 inches high. The project stopped for lack of a good enough 8 inch mid back then. But these days they are all over the place! Maybe we should pick it up again...
Westlake BBSM - 15VNF - Well, not much to say about it. Big, bold and accurate. 99db sensitive. That does help! Looks like a JM Lab Utopia, costs about the same. 500lbs a piece, like your average piano...	Midgard Audio Gaia. - I attended a show today. Gaia was making music. This one looks set to be a world class contender. It sounded spectacularly resolved. While not fully dialed in, it showed promise, and stunning dynamics! Picture was taken by "mor 10" - a user on a norwegian forum called AV. Anyway. A small recording of them, playing (low resolution file..) http: /files-upload.com/files/532359/071.AVI	Electrocompaniet Prelude loudspeaker. - This little (42 high...) speaker really impressed me at the Horten Show (Norway) this fall! It is a little svelte speaker, but sung quite nice! This is a co-project between several people. Me and my brother had a very nice talk with Volker Hunger from EC about this speaker. Again, this speaker sung way over its asking price!!! Way over!! EC has done it again I belive, this is a gem! This one played music and loved doing it! I don't know how else to say it! It was an emotional experience to listen to it!!	Dynaudio Sapphire . 30 year commemorative edition. - Some new model, sounded very good, and that was under show conditions! Evidently called The Sapphire. Actually, I'd say it sounded like a Master Evidence for smaller rooms! Or thereabouts.. I'm sure you could buy two sets and place one set inverted on top of the other set, and clamp them together... hehe! Now would not that be crazy, I'll say.. But I'm sure it would work!!! Hehe, but really, it looks like a bottom half of an evidence speaker!! But seriously, this was awesomely good from Dynaudio! Almost an Evidence this!!! Almost!!
Peak Consult The Dragon - Some new model from this Danish firm. Specs read: Design: 3-way port tuned Crossover frequencies: 190 Hz / 3750 Hz Frequency Range: 18 â€“ 40.000 Hz Sensitivity: 93 dB @ 1W / 1 m. Impedance: Linear 5 ohm to 30 Hz Dimensions: H: 140 cm. W: 39 cm. D: 70 cm. Weight: 185 kg. Just saw the picture. Looks like an attempt at challenging J.M.Labs Utopia speaker. The amp in the rack there is a Vitus with only 25w class A. That was evidently enough according to some forum user who had the honor of listening to this beast. Incredible dynamic even at that low input power. No price as of yet, but I'm thinking this one must cost ... a lot...!	Doxa 8.1 Signature/Silver S/Revelator... - A norwegian classic. No longer in production. So.. how does it sound? Like Sonus Faber Extrema mated to Quad ESL. Goes really deep in the bass with great dynamics. I don't know how deep. But I've never heard anyone use subs with it. It had a cabinet of real wood. The price was low compared to what it can do! A bit difficult to place. This is a Ferrari...with testicular fortitude.. Mia E' Veloce ...	Midgard Audio Gaia. - Okay, when did you last see a designer headbang while his design was thumpin out the beat? I've never seen it! Rock on!!! Cool picture! (Taken by the owner of the speakers I believe, at the setup) Price... Well, lets just say that this is in the "the designer will come to your house and set it up,and even test the 'boogie level' before leaving" - category ... Well that's what it looks like on this picture!!! 138db loudness ability, 6 x 1200w amplification. The subwoofers alone are 374lbs, and that is just the drivers! (Aura sound) This is a massive system!!! The maximum tolerance is about 25 KW ...! That's 25 thousand watts. It looks like a big speaker, but considering what's actually in there, it's amazingly compact! The one thing I can remember from the demo (at the show) was that the music was "believable", regardless of where you sat or stood in front of them. And the bass... Yet small sounds like a frail triangle was just that, frail and pure. I have not heard all the top speakers out there , but I have a distinct feeling that I've at least heard one of them! True 16hz (in room) and upwards bandwidth...	Volent Paragon VL-4 - The memories come flying back... My first thought was... They are remaking the IRS? Ah! It is gorgeous!!!
I'm told to really get lost in the music, you must get up and dance... - And we all know it takes two to...Tango! Oh! I had to include this speaker in my gallery! Even if it was just to be able to write the above.. Hehe!! Nice!! Acoustic systems Tango, uhm or maybe it's Avatar "Tango"? Not sure of that. Now excuse me while I face the music... and dance.. with mrs Krall. I just wish she could Tango...	Bowers & Wilkins model 801 Diamond series. - Apart from my first love, The Infinity IRS, this speaker come in at a good second. Having heard it on many occations over the years, and in Gen III, Gen IV (Nautilus series) and now Gen V (Diamond series) iterations. The last generation is a product of a Danish B&W engineer by the way. The Gen II was a mature product, Gen III and IV was difficult to master. But with this Gen V iteration, it seems that B&W is back on track with this monster! I don't have room for it, but wish I had! On my short list!	L'appellation 370E, 5Ã¨me gÃ©nÃ©ration - La nouvelle enceinte acoustique Jean Maurer 370 E Ok. Why in my gallery? Well, it's got filters with 20, 38, 49 and 70db/oct steepness... Ouch!! Filtres rÃ©partiteurs Ã trÃ¨s... But it's only a 3-way.. 650/3000 construct. 3 ohm load. I love the looks of this brute of a speaker!	Amphion Krypton 2, This time it's a Finnish/Danish co-project. - The new Krypton speaker. (soundstage photo) This time it's got a titanium tweeter and new mids. Well, the designer talk about it here: http: /www.audioasylum.com/audio/speakers/messages/26/266265.html so I'll leave it at that. I just love the look of the Krypton! Not heard this one yet, but I'm gonna!! Haha!!! The sub in the background there is the Impact 500. I've only heard that sub paired with the Xenon model, and it really does tranform the Xenon that pairing. I always thought the Xenons were quite dynamic, but with a impact 500 in the mix.. well, it really did transform that speaker into a beast!!
This is a horn speaker. - But a different breed of horn speaker indeed. It's a "Vertical Split" horn speaker called VSS Ultima. It's also a horn speaker with no cabinet...sort of It goes down to 20hz and sounds like thunder and silence in a mix! It's got the impulse response sort of like that of a 'stat; immensely fast.. 10 degrees phase error (actually less!) from 20hz to 30khz and -1db, 1.5db frequency deviation. Crazy specs, that is sure. It'll take 1000w of amp power and live to tell about it. 91db efficient. Yes... it's from Norway. No, it's not a viking style totem pole!!! It's a Forsman VSS! Yeah, and it uses driver earthing, like Tannoy uses. I've heard a demo with this type of mods and it clearly works this type of earth-thingie stuff.. what ever. It works!	Overkill Audio "The Finale". - I believe this is the first pair delivered of this new flagship model from Derek Wilson. Photo taken by owner at delivery, and that was at the beginning of May. So this is like really recent indeed! Cool look indeed! In the rack one can also see Overkills Conductor and End Game pre/NOS-dac/DSP-crossover system. That is one lucky owner! Dang!!!	I found a picture on my old HD here the other day of a really good classic speaker! The Paragon!!! Wow! Dynaudio super DRONE speaker this. Uses Bruzezze cabinet tech and that stuff... Awesome speaker. Not made anymore.. Most likely one of the best ever designed this one... awesome stuff! Uses ...(I know, it is a secret..) a special compund dampening, that I have tested myself... And it is a SHAME that this speaker never was discovered!!! A SHAME!!! One of the best dynamic designs made, ever!!! Imho!!	QRS Nebulosa. - Just me trying a new paint program I got. Original photo has sort of been "tweaked a bit". The speaker is a QRS Nebulosa, from Sweden. The bottom cabinet contains no less than 3 x 10" subwoofer drivers. 1 forward (closed cabinet) 2 in a isobaric chamber venting down. So this is a very massive passive - subwoofer with very awesome capacity in the nether regions, and a mid/tweeter module on top. No need to augment with subs says the makers, below 18hz maybe then. I like base power, so this sounded so awesome to me that in my gallery it went! Base power! Full frequency dynamics then, and seriously hung in the nether regions. Uhm, of course I didn't take the makers words for this! Hifi&Musik - a swedish magazine wrote on this speaker. Extremely wide sweetspot, composed, slightly laidback and a total refusal to lose control regardless of volume level. Ease of placement and if you got the amplification power required: Base power, that shocked the testing panel so bad, that they simply stated: "Well, to put this lightly, you will not be needing that pair of 15" servo controlled subwoofers..." Oh my!!! I'm a sucker for this type of writing!! I admit it I was born a woofer lover, what can I say.
It doesn't look real this. But it sure sound like it.. - Nice box! Harbeth 40.1 I like the way it looks, that's all.	Tannoy Yorkminster SE - THis is a real cool speaker. It will do 12hz -6db !!! Fur real!!! 12hz in-room!!! 12 inch bass driver. 2 inch pepperpot tweeter. 220 liters cabinet. 140lbs heavy. 93db efficient. Did i say it will do 12hz inroom? I did... 12hz!!! You wanna use tubes, in a fairly big room. So you get it to go all the way to 12hz. 12hz!!! Talk about bonechrushing bass power!!! And the really neat trick is that this power scales back almost to whisper levels, and it's still there, that deep LF power. A bit narrow dispersion but hey... 12hz! Will play anything, louder than a lot of other speaker. Could be better abover 5000hz, Tannoy still could improve their pepperpot, just a tince... Funny enough it can be filtered down at 5000hz, allowing for say a ACAPELLA ION TW 1S (Ionic Tweeter) maybe to take over from there. Should fit nicely on top of the cabinet those!. Now that would be a ... marvel!!! Can be bi-amped, or with a Acapella ion tweeter... tri-amped. A 12hz capable tube amp, is of course a bit of a challenge to find but I'm sure they exist. I think it can handle 500watts of power. Of course if you're ever in the room when you actually use that... that would be a very very bad Idea...	Respons Magna Musicum. Neutral, Etheral, Dynamic like a freqqin Nuke - yet extremely micro-dynamic as well. Needs kind of powerfull amplifier. Aprox 20 thou Dollarsis in price. What to say. High-Dollar and extreme top end Ultimate company product killer.. You do not wanna put your high dollar 400k $ top model next to this one in a demo... There will be tears...