September 27, 201312 yr they are designed to have controlled directivity, similar to linkwitz newest design and the Nao note speakers. the only problem with controlled directivity open baffle speakers are the ugly baffles, so it took a lot of thinking and prototyping to make these somewhat good looking also, RAAL tweeters sound amazing!
November 19, 201312 yr From Jeffrey Jackson/Dave Slagle's blog. Sort of cryptic post, but it sounds like he is involved in building these
November 20, 201312 yr http://oswaldsmillaudio.com/loudspeakers Am i the only one who love their designs?
November 20, 201312 yr No. One of the members here owns a pair. I'm impressed with aesthetics as well as sound quality.
November 20, 201312 yr And their turntable builds are pretty cool as well. I wish there was a local showroom around here for demos.
January 22, 201412 yr Those are amps on the left. Amps and preamps. Still thought I'd post it here; it's still porn.
January 22, 201412 yr How can it be not? (throws femur up into the air like he just don't care) (starts laughing uncontrollably) Ah, I kill me.
May 18, 201412 yr Ah, Mike L, up here in the Seattle area. Nicest guy you will ever meet in audio. The rest of his system is here. I have not heard his recent version of the system, but a friend a few years back declared it to be easily in the top five on the west coast. Check out the last photo: When he bought the house, it had a horse barn out back. He had it closed in and walled in, with the acoustic work being done by Rives Audio. Total custom from top to bottom. Damn.
May 18, 201412 yr Both I'd think. There is a picture in the largest national newspaper here today of a high end system (Pass pre and power amps feeding ESL2905's) and it has those idiotic stands too.
May 18, 201412 yr Can't they just get some kind of flooring that wouldn't totally kill the sound in those cables?
May 18, 201412 yr Here's some active speaker prawn - KEF X300A in transparent cabinet. Sans damping fuzz, as far as I can tell. Interestingly both speakers house more or less identical electronics and use USB cable for chaining - meaning both have DACs.
May 18, 201412 yr God, that room, though. That room is a dream. Kinda funny,.. Mike was sitting just a couple of chairs down from you when you were at the Bottlehead booth at RMAF so many moons ago. BTW, Mike is a really nice guy but he buys into some "iffy" shit.
May 20, 201412 yr Kinda funny,.. Mike was sitting just a couple of chairs down from you when you were at the Bottlehead booth at RMAF so many moons ago. BTW, Mike is a really nice guy but he buys into some "iffy" shit. I'd love to make his acquaintance some time and spend an afternoon in the barn. I've seen pictures of it for years, and it is something of a legend in my home. I couldn't care less about the gear, frankly, as it looks like he's spent more than my entire system's value on speaker cables, but I'm very interested in the room. It's evident from the gear choices he's made that the "iffy shit" runs deep in him. Given his resources, I'm not sure what my system would look like. I'm imagining it would basically be Ray Kimber's old show demonstration rig of 12x soundlab electrostat panels run through huge Pass amps. http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?action=gallery;image=7739
May 20, 201412 yr DarTZeel products amuse me to no end. I've never heard any, so my amusement is derived solely from their looks (and ca. 1994 pirate BBS capitalization scheme). Supposedly, Frank Herbert based House Harkonnen on the Swiss. These two thoughts are more related than one might think.
May 20, 201412 yr What Swiss / Pirate BSB Stereotype gives us the abomination "danalogue" then ...e.g.The LHC-208 "danalogue" streaming DAC with integrated amplifierhttp://www.dartzeel.com/index.php/en/
May 21, 201412 yr I think it's amusing that with the DSD craze and audiophiles obsessing over every FOTW DAC Alon Wolf is showing his speakers with a 20 year old DAC at last week's Munich show. I would also like to hear what $40k a pair compression drivers sound like.
May 21, 201412 yr I would also like to hear what $40k a pair compression drivers sound like. Definitely! Big horns and compression drivers are where it's at for me. Just need to get it together. Here is OMA's flagship:
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