Full Limited Edition Aries Cerat System Build and World Exclusive LEGEND Series!

Believe High Fidelity

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A Preview of the Limitless Performance of the New Symphonia Limited Edition Type S*

*(Room is untreated on bare concrete. Speakers are not coupled the the ground and on rollers for when the room is under construction for ease of movement)

 

Mike Lavigne

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beautiful set-up!!!

got to sound fantastic......and has to be very satisfying for him to finally be able to listen to his dream system.

congrats!!!!

look forward to feedback.
 

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How does it sound versus the Ampeggio Due in the background?
 

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Beautiful speakers, they look as good as they sound.

Billy, you mention the subs will be Aries Cerat horns, are those going to be part of the brand´s portfolio or are you having them custom made? I do recall Stavros was redesigning the Concero speaker to have a new bass tower so maybe it could be that?
 

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How does it sound versus the Ampeggio Due in the background?

Kind of not fair. There is nothing wired up to the Ampeggio Due so there isn't any sound coming out of them. So the Symphonia blows them away lol
 

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Josh,

I'm off work for the rest of this week and all of next week. If you guys need a hand with anything, I'd love to help out.

Already installed. Would have loved an extra hand and really appreciate you offering. You just earned the front row seat on the first public demo
 

Believe High Fidelity

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Beautiful but they seem kind of close together. Any reason why?

Well the room is far from finished so in an effort to get the best imaging and performance closer is much easier to dial in. It will like only be this way for a short time before they get moved and without knowing what is going to be done it would be futile to really spend a ton of time on placement.

With horn the further they are apart the difficulty to get good imaging is exacerbated substantially.
 

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Those long metal tubes from the cables must be a pain to find their placement in the system. Very beautiful speakers indeed. I am also curious of the horns being closer together. Which is better closer together or more apart? My speaker designer also has two ways of placing his speakers. One with base horns together between the speaker towers. The other is the base horns on outer sides and speaker towers place closer in the middle between the bass horns.

I am excited for you Billy :)

Tang
 

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Yes, The Symphonias, even strangely positioned and using A Bryston B4 cubed amp do indeed blow away the Voxativ Dues. Any fear i might have had about this system reaching world class is completely gone. The real beauty of these speakers lies well below the surface.

The acoustician arrives Saturday so we can get those speakers(and my knees) off the concrete. The whole experience is sort of surreal. How did I arrive in Wonderland?
 

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You can see from Billy’s face how happy he is with his speakers, if congrats to both Josh & Billy!

david
 

Believe High Fidelity

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Thank you for the warm wishes.

Stavros and I talked yesterday and ran the numbers. Turns out more than half (58.89% to be exact) of the Aries Cerat owners own a full system of Aries Cerat gear. Even more interesting is those owners who made the leap went from a single purchase (amp, pre, etc) to a full system in less than 6 months of ownership. As an owner of two reference systems of well known manufacturers, I think Billy can attest to the dramatic difference in performance of hearing the Reference System I have vs the Limited Edition System he has purchased.

I hope that many of you will have an opportunity to come visit Austin and see what all the fuss is about when the room is finished.
 

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Beautiful pictures. These speakers really sang at CES a few years ago. As a horn lover, I was very impressed with the both the sound and the fit and finish of the gear.

Maybe mentioned on other threads but I'm curious what frequency range the full range driver is operating through?
 

Believe High Fidelity

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Beautiful pictures. These speakers really sang at CES a few years ago. As a horn lover, I was very impressed with the both the sound and the fit and finish of the gear.

Maybe mentioned on other threads but I'm curious what frequency range the full range driver is operating through?

Since it is a variable slope crossover I can't say the specific FR, but it is just LF no sound comes out of the that driver. The application is just for pressurizing the basshorn
 

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Thank you for the warm wishes.

Stavros and I talked yesterday and ran the numbers. Turns out more than half (58.89% to be exact) of the Aries Cerat owners own a full system of Aries Cerat gear. Even more interesting is those owners who made the leap went from a single purchase (amp, pre, etc) to a full system in less than 6 months of ownership. As an owner of two reference systems of well known manufacturers, I think Billy can attest to the dramatic difference in performance of hearing the Reference System I have vs the Limited Edition System he has purchased.

I hope that many of you will have an opportunity to come visit Austin and see what all the fuss is about when the room is finished.

Fascinating, i had observed that there seem to be quite a high % of full Aries Cerat system owners...what % of single piece buyers end up going to full system (not necessarily in 6 months...just in total)?
 

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