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In the middle The Sovereign mono amps.
Speaker system is the Sovereign Analysis Premium.

The Sovereign is 155cm tall and the weight is 125kg each.
Power output in 8/4/2/1 ohms - 1800/3000/5000/10000 watt.

It has 40 63V 39,000 uF of caps - 3100 joule of operating storage.
Price is €130,000 /pr.

One of my friends listened to them in Sovereign's listening room in 2012, he didn't wan't to leave - they sounded sensationally good.
 
Really? Does the amp really need to be 1,5m high?


alexandre
 
10,000 watts @ 1?? You could literally weld metal with those amplifiers. My word.

What's with the rod and weight hanging down the center of the cube speaker stands...anybody know?

Tom
 
treitz3 said:
10,000 watts @ 1?? You could literally weld metal with those amplifiers. My word.

What's with the rod and weight hanging down the center of the cube speaker stands...anybody know?

Tom
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mass loading. it will drain any reasonance from the cabinet. with such small light cabinets the whole cabinet would be reacting to the driver excursion without some sort of loading.

you can do the same thing by putting a brick on top of the cabinet but it would not be as elegant.

and it does allow for a very small form factor cabinet that will work in small spaces yet still handle some SPL's.
 
Thank you, Mr. Lavigne. I used to use a large brass statue with a marble base on my various speakers/subs. That was my elegant solution and it looked better than the old glass jar of coins I had previously used.

Tom
 
treitz3 said:
10,000 watts @ 1?? You could literally weld metal with those amplifiers. My word.


Tom
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Do you think you could actually get that out of the wall? Even a 240V line?
 
Mike Lavigne said:
mass loading. it will drain any reasonance from the cabinet. with such small light cabinets the whole cabinet would be reacting to the driver excursion without some sort of loading.

you can do the same thing by putting a brick on top of the cabinet but it would not be as elegant.

and it does allow for a very small form factor cabinet that will work in small spaces yet still handle some SPL's.
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Mike,

Probably listening rooms in the Taipei 101 skyscraper (Taipei World Financial Center) should have excellent sound - it includes a 660 tonnes steel pendulum that serves as a tuned mass damper.

BTW, the Sonus Faber Aida also has its own 'Tuned Mass Damper', happily weighting somewhat less ... ;)
 

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..I used to own those speakers, let them go. they were fantastic, but the subwoofers never quite made it in my room. The Stella Novus/Opus beat them in every way.

Egidius
 
GaryProtein said:
Do you think you could actually get that out of the wall? Even a 240V line?
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Yes. I have actually seen the evidence from a single mono block of Carver's 9t do just this. It's not like one would want to do this on purpose but if a mistake happened [in this case, it did], the amp will literally weld pieces of metallurgy together.

Tom
 
Wow, the amps are gigantic! Perhaps we need a thread... the world's largest amplifiers.
 
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Roysen said:
Actually the biggest Sovereign amplifier used to be listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the biggest audio amplifier. That's a few years ago though.
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The real reason for getting rid of it, besides subwoofer problems, was the gold plate on top of the sub, i loved the design of the satellites though, amazing!!

But this Gold plate was such a show off, I had to sell it. Not my style.
 
From what I understand Sovereign Audio is in the planning phase of a new preamplifier which is intended to match The Sovereign amplifiers.
 
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