That's what I call audiophile music -- that's why they play that kind of music -- that sparse, jazz trio shit -- at all the audiophile conventions. It makes any system sound good.

Yeah, it takes some pretty serious fail for it not to sound good.

It's like those older Bose Wave radio ads with Wynton Marsalis playing some watered-down MORjazz to show off how great the Wave Radio is through the mono speaker on your 1973 Magnavox.

I'm just wondering how they made my cheap laptop speakers sound all audiophile with that soundtrack

im starting to believe the whole garbage in garbage out idea. on the run of the mill shitty mp3 encodes, the laptop speakers sound exactly like one would assume - shitty. however, on the tracks i got from hdtracks and some other hi rez stuff and well recorded albums (sara k, patricia barber, dave koz) they actually dont sound half bad. better than ibuds at least. i cant stand them with good quality music (higher bitrate etc etc)

Ye olde RAAL Requisite Eternity. Five 15" woofers, 18 2.5" midranges and 15 5" ribbon tweeters. Cast bronze enclosure. Not to be mistaken for a Smoker's Outpost.

I thought that looked familiar, they had a pair at Burning Amp Festival 2008

(more info at: The Burning Amp - Diy Festival)

That is a fine sounding speaker. Open baffle too...Crazy Serbs.

I'll tell you what, kids, that RAAL did nothing for me.

Ye olde RAAL Requisite Eternity. Five 15" woofers, 18 2.5" midranges and 15 5" ribbon tweeters. Cast bronze enclosure. Not to be mistaken for a Smoker's Outpost.

http://blog.ultimateavmag.com/ultimate-gear/090722-eternity-opener.jpg

http://blog.ultimateavmag.com/images/archivesart/090722-eternity-innards.jpg

http://blog.ultimateavmag.com/images/archivesart/090722-eternity-detail.jpg

http://blog.ultimateavmag.com/images/archivesart/090722-eternity-ribbon.jpg

They look like two chimenea. Where do you put the charcoal?

Much more here: Vanguard

^^^

Looks like an old Akai drum machine in the middle picture. I'm going to guess that's Pharrel's rumpus room.

Much more here: Vanguard

this post makes me horny.

ba da bump ching...

I posted the links to that in the slow forum I think. A whole house with many speaker rooms on a Japanese site. Pure audio porn.

I posted the links to that in the slow forum I think. A whole house with many speaker rooms on a Japanese site. Pure audio porn.

I have being looking at this site for years now Amazing stuff, especially Klang Film stuff.

this post makes me horny.

Headphones aren't enough for you anymore, huh?

We need horn-based headphones.

Edited August 20, 200917 yr by Voltron

Debuting at RMAF 2009:

We need horn-based headphones.

Did anything ever come of those ribbon-based headphones?

Do ugly-but-awesome-sounding subs count?

The structural engineer in me cringes at how those are mounted. I'd never let anyone walk under those if it was my house. Yikes.

The structural engineer in me cringes at how those are mounted. I'd never let anyone walk under those if it was my house. Yikes.

Ha, trust me they're not going anywhere, these things have got loads more fixings than they need to stay put. I have happy memories of swinging repeatedly from them before mounting the drivers.

Ha, trust me they're not going anywhere, these things have got loads more fixings than they need to stay put. I have happy memories of swinging repeatedly from them before mounting the drivers.

Trust me, just because something supports a load temporarily does not mean that it is permanently capable of doing the same thing.

Trust me, just because something supports a load temporarily does not mean that it is permanently capable of doing the same thing.

Ah well, the barn's been there for 200 years & the subs have been there through a year of heavy use, I'll take my chances . Having said that, I'm kinda tempted to move my bikes...

Do ugly-but-awesome-sounding subs count?

IB FTW!