Worlds most holographic speaker?

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So, Bang &Olufsen don't get much love in here, but i have a feeling the new Beolab 90 could be a fun speaker and change that.

I can't post links yet, so google Beolab 90 yourself.

I would really really like to hear this speaker, and its not THAT expensive again. You really get a lot for your money (40.000$)

What do you think? Something for the rich sharks in here to try out? ;)

Bo
 
Pretty wild looking.
As per "Not that expensive" from the review links -The BeoLab 90’s list price of $80,000 USD per pair makes it, by far, the most expensive speaker B&O has ever made.
 
Yeah ok, but you do get something for your money.
18 loudspeaker drivers per speaker,
14 latest generation ICEpower amplifiers and 4 class D amplifiers for at total of 8200 watts per loudspeaker,
18 Burbank D/A converters and 2 advanced soundprocessors (DSP) that works at 192 KHz per loudspeaker,
and advanced roomcorrection.
Weight, more than 300 pounds.

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...& something that looks like a cross between a Dalek & Elephant Man, hell no!!
 
Obtrusively ugly. You need some serious space for that sort of expression.
 
I heard these yesterday... one of our club members own them... pretty darn holographic if you ask me....
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Ha, the one speaker that makes Mike stop & think.... ;)
 
If you ever have the opportunity to hear them, the Muraudio electrostatic hybrid speakers are quite stunning in their presentation.

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There's nothing quite like MBL's, or the new Muraudio, for presenting a full and believable soundstage in a big room. But you need to have everything they require, size of room, power to spare, great upstream equipment.

For normal people, meaning those not like us, I think panel speakers do the job best in human sized rooms. Apogees, Soundlabs, even Maggie's, but they tend to be one person speakers as opposed to the enormous walk in soundstage of the omni's.
 
I suspect these speakers would qualify...The Genesis Primes. I heard the Infinity IRS-V's on which these speakers were based & to this day they are still the most holographic speakers i've ever heard, and the Primes are on a whole nutha level! :audiophile:

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Mike said:
He wasn't "wowed".
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I think he was extremely impressed

B&O has also succeeded in using all that technology to serve the music: the BeoLab 90's sound quality equaled the general performance of any other speaker I've heard, and exceeded them in the resolution and stability of the soundstages the pair of them presented.
For now, I exhort every caring music listener to listen to the BeoLab 90 and hear what is now possible. It's that good.
 
Sooo... Essentially a very very large, heavy and expensive Bose system. And we all know what most people think about Bose and highly processed signals. Sounds to me that these speakers work on the same principle as Bose as well, tricking what the mind is hearing via phsycoacoustics. One of the biggest reasons Bose is hated so much, yet here's B&O doing the same thing.

In the audiophile world, we strive for the shortest signal paths possible, the least amount of gear possible from source to speaker, and with the least amount (if any) processing used. These speakers are the exact opposite of all of that. And for $80k, I can build one helluva system that will be a lot more accurate and high end that will blow those speakers away, along with a little room treatments.

Sure, with those $80k B&O speakers, you get "something" for your money, but it's a bunch of something I don't want.


Jaws said:
Yeah ok, but you do get something for your money.
18 loudspeaker drivers per speaker,
14 latest generation ICEpower amplifiers and 4 class D amplifiers for at total of 8200 watts per loudspeaker,
18 Burbank D/A converters and 2 advanced soundprocessors (DSP) that works at 192 KHz per loudspeaker,
and advanced roomcorrection.
Weight, more than 300 pounds.

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