• https://www.audiogon.com/listings/f...55-000-worldwide-shipping-2017-11-13-speakers
Good discount...24% off.
Good discount...24% off.
• https://www.audiogon.com/listings/f...55-000-worldwide-shipping-2017-11-13-speakers
Good discount...24% off.
. . . someone will end up with these for a little over $100k when all is said and done......maybe up to $125k shipped. and that will be a great value for a super speaker system.
Hmm, for this price would you buy them, or the new Lyra model?
Hmm, for this price would you buy them, or the new Lyra model?
BMCG, unfortunately I can’t go as far as “thinking”, just “daydreaming”.
I always find one thing disappointing about these designs.
Everything is better generation to generation.
Except sensitivity.
Would it kill Andy to create a super speaker with sensitivity in the late 90s? So one could genuinely use SET amps with it?
Hmm, for this price would you buy them, or the new Lyra model?
Maybe for your third system you can get into horns, AC?
Unless I was limited to a small room which would squelch the Arrakis, I would take the Arrakis. I love the two Altairs inverted M-T-M design which, I think, affords a scale and grandeur which, I believe, only that speaker height can create.
Very, very unlikely, Kedar, because I have never heard a horn loudspeaker that could convince me from top to bottom. So I suppose I am not a 'horn guy'.
I haven't heard Arrakis, but I heard the discontinued, then retail 30k USD grand mira 2 (very different from the grand mira or mira 2).
I loved it, and then realized it was the only other model in the Rockport line up that was dappolito and MTM. Side firing and front firing woofers, it did things like many planars but with more weight, though depending on room one might have to supplement lower section with woofers. Like you mention, height it is important and it was 7 ft, and the side and front firing woofers made it appear faster than the zzzz ported cones.
I never liked any of the other Rockport models, having heard Aviors with different amps, (the altairs only at Munich with absolare each year)
So, I just put this out there for Rockport fans, or any cone fans, and for those who can't go anywhere near the arrakis, to keep a watch out for an used grand mira 2, at 10k to 15k it could be a bargain over some of the other cones. It is tall at 7 feet, slim, and the distance to side walls matters because of side firing woofers. If you see an used one fly over to check it out if you have the space. It is 90db, I heard it with a trilogy integrated and surely that can be improved.
So you're saying to your ears the ~8 year old $30K Grand Mira bettered the newer tech and 3x price ~$100K Altairs? That's a pretty damning statement to throw out...
I've heard the Arrakis many times and the Aviors. Both have a slight darkness to their presentation (not in a bad way) and are ruthlessly revealing. Excellent speakers.
On a different note - I've never heard horns that I truly liked, even more so at given price points. Part, I'm sure is due to room size requirements which many (most?) don't have to accommodate.
Further on the Rockports...been a fan since Goodwins put the Altairs center stage....loved them.
Challenging to find them in the UK though...
Audiocrack...you are not helpful in suggesting the TIDAL Akira is a UK available alternative.....
and so I do not unintentionally insult....
The unhelpful part relates to ....yes I like the Akira (well except for the £200k part)....as I can't quite work out how to get the trouble and strife approval.
Man maths anyone?
I’m not really in the market at any of these prices.
I just don’t understand why in this day and age, it’s not possible to create a cost no object speaker with high efficiency.
90dB just precludes enough tube amps.
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