Newbie Speaker Question Speaker. It Looks Like a Tuba?

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Alan Smithee <somewhere@asdf.com> wrote:
>I was trying to locate this crazy speaker I saw in a magazine a few months
>back. It was a home speaker, very very high end, the thing was as big as a
>volkwagon and had a sound horn that looked like, and was the size of a
>marching band tuba (color red I think) attached to it. I think it was
>produced on the West Coast in the states but I may be wrong on that one
>(might have been the dealership). The price tag was in the, get ready, $80k
>to $100K area. I haven't been able to stumble upon since in the last day or
>two so I thought someone here might be able to point it out for me. Thx.

That describes just about any of the Japanese horn speakers.

Are you thinking of the Audio Note stuff?

If you think that's odd, check out the Jadis Eurthymie. Doesn't sound
very good but it looks amazing.
--scott

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"Scott Dorsey" <kludge@panix.com> wrote in message
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> Alan Smithee <somewhere@asdf.com> wrote:
> >I was trying to locate this crazy speaker I saw in a magazine a few
months
> >back. It was a home speaker, very very high end, the thing was as big as
a
> >volkwagon and had a sound horn that looked like, and was the size of a
> >marching band tuba (color red I think) attached to it. I think it was
> >produced on the West Coast in the states but I may be wrong on that one
> >(might have been the dealership). The price tag was in the, get ready,
$80k
> >to $100K area. I haven't been able to stumble upon since in the last day
or
> >two so I thought someone here might be able to point it out for me. Thx.
>
> That describes just about any of the Japanese horn speakers.
>
> Are you thinking of the Audio Note stuff?
>
> If you think that's odd, check out the Jadis Eurthymie. Doesn't sound
> very good but it looks amazing.
> --scott
>
Very close to what I was looking for. I now see that the horn speakers are
ubiquitous in the hifi world. You've led me to some other sites I now think
it may have been the Avantgarde systems that piqued my interest. Thx. BTW
the Eurythrnie looks like an orchid don't it?

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In article <icW%d.758211$8l.691727@pd7tw1no> somewhere@asdf.com writes:

> I was trying to locate this crazy speaker I saw in a magazine a few months
> back. It was a home speaker, very very high end, the thing was as big as a
> volkwagon and had a sound horn that looked like, and was the size of a
> marching band tuba (color red I think)

I saw those at the CES a couple of years ago, and I think that for the
2003 show someone set up a web page with photos of those, including
lots of other things (many turntables) that were at least as
"interesting." Maybe a search of rec.audio.pro and CES will turn up a
link. I tried for a couple of minutes and couldn't find it but
someone's bound to have it bookmarked.




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