As I do with you, but thank you for your great post with pertinent and well-observed comments!
Patents are often touted as some spectacular selling point, but if you peruse a good few of these you might see how pointless and useless so many of them actually are; many are simply 'covering the bases' so to speak, just in case...
I'd rather wed an average-looking sweetie than a stunning bitch! Similarly speaker-wise, I guess it sometimes depends upon expectation bias, bragging rights, and impressing the neighbours when it comes to appearance. I'd rather have a pair of sonically superior speakers in tatty bare plywood than any amount of rosewood and piano finish black gloss and so-so drivers. Each to their own, and I completely understand those who aspire to things of beauty.
I'll revise my original comment to '...electromagnetically driven pseudo-pistons, regardless of material'.
In my world it certainly has its place, especially when you meet a particularly disagreeable and ignorant (of electroacoustics) one of them face-to-face...
Given the low barrier to entry I suspect it is more about steadily building the brand and providing the ultra wealthy with what they want in terms of support. The Wilson company being a good example of this. It took a long steady effort to build what is presumably a fairly lucrative business with what seems to be a significant share of the available market (not that I know much about it!). I expect the straightforward engineering part that we can see of putting some drivers in painted boxes is a relatively unimportant part of a successful ultra-fi business. Can anyone think of examples of brands rapidly capturing a significant chunk of the high end market?
Magico is a good example of rapid growth. I talked to Alon Wolf about it some 3 years ago, asking him about getting into hifi. To my surprise he replied that if getting rich is main motivation, then I should look elsewhere... most of the money he made as a company were eaten by investment in machinery. I met many CEOs in Munich, very friendly, slightly crazy 🤪 yet honestly passionate about their doing, best example- Lawrence Dickie from Vivid Audio. Such a cool hobby 😌
Does anyone know if Metaxas were there and if so whether you have any pictures you can post please ? There website suggests they were there.
So many speakers look like the crime buster robot from "heartbeeps".
I guess if you pay $$$$ you want something that needs two people to move it.
Thanks for the update. Their website says Hall 3 No.9 if that means anything ?
You would recognise them, they look like this -
You wouldn't object to a good looking sweetie, I take it? Or sonically exquisite speakers finely finished? 😉
When a center channel looks like that I begin to wonder how the rears and the sub would look like ? 😉
Regards
Charles
Regards
Charles
Can’t recall anything like that either. Only a few booths on the ground floor (=halls 1-4) had listening rooms, the rest had static displays. I only paid attention to exhibitors with listening rooms which metaxas maybe didn’t have?
The more I look at these speakers (the center is just fine) the less I understand how it's going to work... mids firing seemingly to all directions, tweeters mounted high in the sky. Woofers have practically no volume. It does seems like someone trying to make a speaker, and his main inspiration is the female (pregnant) human body. I guess that its still on the CAD DRAWING
