Best looking speakers on the market

[CnoEvil]

Gromit! We've forgotten the crackers!

Whoda thought that you could get artistic (acoustic) inspiration from a suppository! :?

 

[Anonymous]

@Steve, they definitely look good but I still like the old series more 😉

 

[noogle]

Gromit! We've forgotten the crackers!

These look FANTASTIC!!! Any ideas of cost??

Good idea for DIY if they are out of reach...

They were one-offs built by Living Voice for a superyacht. No idea on the price, but given LV's pricing, I'm sure they'd be north of £100k.

 

[Anonymous]

Focal Diablo Utopia... awesomely beautiful

 

[altruistic.lemon]

Now these are class:

 

[basshead]

Forgot to mention the O'heochas...

i swear a pair of these were used in the Men in Black film......

 

[tyranniux42]

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I'm surprised no one bringed up the Utopia:

Or, coming back to planet earth, all the old castle lineup looks great. I love my Conways 3.

http://www.castle.uk.com/

I was just about to mention them... but my fav has to be the original B&W nautilus.. beautiful.

Im rather in love with my new Ovators too...really very nice in the flesh... or wood :shifty:

 

[Anonymous]

Forgot to mention the O'heochas...

i swear a pair of these were used in the Men in Black film......

They were indeed. I just had a quick look through the second film, you can see them to the right of Z's office in this picture-

 

[John Duncan]

Anything by Sonus Faber, more or less...

 

[Anonymous]

In fact the RX6's are so cool that they..............?

 

[noogle]

 

[csq2]

The new KEF Blades!!!

 

[noogle]

 

[noogle]



 

[Anonymous]

Aren't these used for communicating in then Alps

 

[visionary]

Focal Diablo Utopia... awesomely beautiful

as soon as I saw this, a grating metallic voice in my head said "Exterminate!"

 

[Tonya]

The best looking speakers that I can recall were Gale, I seem to remember that they were so futuristic looking at the time, stainless steel ends I think.

The worst looking that I ever had were bright orange Tandberg ones that looked like weird octogons.
Sounded great at the time . . . .

Some years ago I brought home a superb set of Quad Electrostatics one afternoon and my wife promptly returned them to the shop and exchanged them for Infinity Reference because the wood finish better matched the floor :roll:

 

[noogle]

 

[Anonymous]

Those aren't speakers, they're radiators! (so say my mates)

 

[Anonymous]

For me, the Sonus Faber Amati Futura....

Not only do they look beautiful... and even waaaay more beautiful when you see them physically, but they sound amazing too!

http://www.sonusfaber.com/futuraamati/en/

 

[Sonic Dreamer]

Ah, but that one's got knobs on...

My apologies, that one must be an elizabethan air conditioning unit...

You beat me to it, it does look like those old-fashioned, encased ventilation units you would find in a church or something...

 

[Sonic Dreamer]

I must have been deluding myself that this is the What Hi-Fi forum all this time, when it is actually the What Victorian Camera? forum!

 

[Sonic Dreamer]

WAFtastic!

It resembles the aftermath of a fight between the prototype of the first modern washing machine, an archaic wrought iron stove and a funnel.

 

[Sonic Dreamer]

Call me conservative but I don't like some of the outlandish designs here, give me a nice box speaker with a jewel like finish such as the Usher S520 in high gloss Piano Black and to me it speaks volumes !

I appreciate the Usher finish too, smooth curves to minimise diffraction, perfect piano finish and real solid wood side cheeks to stop cabinet resonance. Plus of course the solid wood stands with big real marble bases..

These are what I have:

Haven't seen a better looking speaker, and I haven't yet heard a better one either, although I'm holding out for some Quad ESLs to audition.

I've just bought a pair, but have yet to decide on what stands to get. The Usher stands look slightly odd, are rather expensive and probably don't proportionately enhance the sound.

 

[Andrew Everard]

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