Just a minute in, seeing cutting slate for turntable plinths, I had to post this.
"All of our loudspeakers are made out of Pennsylvania hardwoods and these are all woods which Martin Guitar, which is the world's best acoustic guitar company, they're right across the valley, they use the same woods that we do so I know that they're tonally great woods."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX65iSZTI7E
"All of our loudspeakers are made out of Pennsylvania hardwoods and these are all woods which Martin Guitar, which is the world's best acoustic guitar company, they're right across the valley, they use the same woods that we do so I know that they're tonally great woods."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX65iSZTI7E
I was on the train and I heard a grandmother telling her granddaughter that grandpa had bought a bamboo plinthe for his LP12 for a thousand pounds, she was telling her that this really made the sound better.....this youtube video reminds me of the monologue I heard
Using there "logic", concrete would make a great guitar because it's a great material for speakers.
Oswald Mill ain't no joke - they fervently believe every word, and if nothing else their stuff is gorgeously made. As for the aesthetics, well that's always a different story.
Thanks for the LOL. That video is hilarious. I am glad they charge such an exhorbitant price, so no average joe can be taken in by this.
You are the joke if you think these speakers are worth $300K
Personally I do like their industrial/steampunk aesthetic - but they charge like a raging bull - something like $20K for a bamboo plywood 8" 2 way (!!!) Ouch!!
With a cast iron horn - I'm sure not the least resonant of materials & we're not even getting into sandwitch constructions & I'm not talking ham&cheese here ;-)
Clearly good sounding speakers are being made from compressed toilet paper ( other people reffer to it as MDF... )
So it's nothing to do with materials ( within reason of course I'm not suggesting ramen for enclosures... ) it's more how you use it & what you know about inherent limitations....
They are distinctly unique in aesthetics/appearance materials & sound I'm sure
The rationalisation about materials used is neither here nor there, there's so much more to it.....
Lastly value for $$$ & these guys are marketing their stuff as art so that rationale does not apply here ;-)
Personally I do like their industrial/steampunk aesthetic - but they charge like a raging bull - something like $20K for a bamboo plywood 8" 2 way (!!!) Ouch!!
With a cast iron horn - I'm sure not the least resonant of materials & we're not even getting into sandwitch constructions & I'm not talking ham&cheese here ;-)
Clearly good sounding speakers are being made from compressed toilet paper ( other people reffer to it as MDF... )
So it's nothing to do with materials ( within reason of course I'm not suggesting ramen for enclosures... ) it's more how you use it & what you know about inherent limitations....
They are distinctly unique in aesthetics/appearance materials & sound I'm sure
The rationalisation about materials used is neither here nor there, there's so much more to it.....
Lastly value for $$$ & these guys are marketing their stuff as art so that rationale does not apply here ;-)
If someone wants to make equipment out of arty materials, well, fine. Lots of things are made with that in mind. But they shouldn't claim engineering advantages for choices that are simply a matter of taste.
The title should have read "How $300,000 is made" ;-)
The title should have read "How $300,000 is made" ;-)
> compressed toilet paper ( other people reffer to it as MDF... )
Toilet paper is MUCH better material than MDF.
You do not want splinters in your TP.
(They make a LOT of tissue in the woods near me.)
Toilet paper is MUCH better material than MDF.
You do not want splinters in your TP.
(They make a LOT of tissue in the woods near me.)
Ha! "How $300,000 is made" love it...
Honestly I think the stuff looks great if you got a big old place like him. The speakers would be very awkward in most homes.
I love the TT and equipment look. Totally dig the processes to make it all. Do I think it sounds good? Well, no, probably not. I have little faith he understands which qualities make something good. Plus all the horns and tube setups I've heard make your ears bleed.... running a bit of bias.
Overall huge thumbs up if people are enjoying it, at least he has made some USA living wage jobs where the workers can step back and appeciate their work and be told it matters to customers literally buying it because of their work.
Honestly I think the stuff looks great if you got a big old place like him. The speakers would be very awkward in most homes.
I love the TT and equipment look. Totally dig the processes to make it all. Do I think it sounds good? Well, no, probably not. I have little faith he understands which qualities make something good. Plus all the horns and tube setups I've heard make your ears bleed.... running a bit of bias.
Overall huge thumbs up if people are enjoying it, at least he has made some USA living wage jobs where the workers can step back and appeciate their work and be told it matters to customers literally buying it because of their work.
This type of consumer goods always raises the question "How can someone be sufficiently stupid to buy that stuff, yet be sufficiently smart to earn enough money to buy that stuff?".
Simple...buyers of these and other "ultra-luxury" goods do not primarily seek quality or performance, the objective is exclusivity and displaying their wealth and status. It's like a financial codpiece! 🙄
The majority merely needs to be smart enough not to squander their inheritance or argue with their trust fund administrator.
Intelligence seems to be a fickle thing, I tend to refer to a relative, a World renown Micro-biologist, supremely intelligent...unfortunately as supremely ignorant amongst us mere mortals. This individual while World traveled, & worldly in some things, doesn't actually know how to operate a clothes drier, dishwasher, nor the likes of programming a VCR way back when. It's a matter of over-specialization, zero exposure to the more common things of life, an insulation as such.
All these well-to-do types are of an opinion that the more money you throw, the more & better results you will get...they seem to have forgotten the simple Law of Diminishing returns.
--------------------------------------------------------------Rick............
Who's more intelligent, the person who enjoys their $300k stereo with no regret on purchase, or the nerd who thinks everything is a rip off and too low in performance and spends their time telling everyone else they're dumb?
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