Bösendorfer loudspeakers

I was surprised to find that the famous piano maker also makes loudspeakers. Audusa is the UK distributor. From their appearance, I suspect they cost about as much as the pianos!

 

Yeah, I've seen them advertised in the hifi press. They 'look' beautiful. I wonder if they sound as good as they look though...and I bet they are bloody expensive as you say.

KXF

 

But do they also have an extra octave in the bass..?

 

Scroll about half way down this page for some pics and info....

http://www.6moons.com/industryfeatures/ces04/ces04_6.html

 

the dac just above looks fapping amazing - probably sounds like crap and costs a mint though.
cheers


julian

 

The Bösendorfer speakers are designed by Hans Deutsch, an (Austrian?) speaker designer who has been active for a few decades.

IMHO, Mr Deutsch is more of a tinkerer than a designer, his mathematics seeming a bit dodgy. I have heard the Bösendorfer speakers only under show conditions and was decidedly underwhelmed. The basic idea is to work with the room instead of against it, à la Shahinian and others, and to accept and work with resonances instead of trying to suppress them at all costs. Fair enough, but the end result sounds rather weird to my ears. The radiation patterns from the drivers just don't gel.

But they do look beautiful.

 

a friend of mine heard them at the last big show in Germany and said they sound very good.

 

Tones,
Tomorrow evening there is a presentation of the Bösendorfer LS with a direct comparason live vs recording. Naoki Kitaya on piano and Rodrigo Botter Maio (sopranosax) are playing live, Hans Deutsch will also be there presenting his LS.

Musikhaus Jecklin, Rämistrasse 30
at 18:30

 

Titian is that place named after the Jecklin od float fame?

 

yep

 

So who exactly was he do you have any english weblinks, his headphones sound good, I take it he was a swiss engineer of some sort.?

 

I don't know who was the developper of the Jecklin's Float headphones.
About 15-20 years ago I had one and it was great.

 

I have the ergo AMT same thing made now by the company who made them for jecklin and they are indeed very nice sounding, thanks for the response.

 

Jürg Jecklin

 

hmm... re: the Bósendorfer speakers, have a feeling it may sound odd with the midrange drivers on the sound given that the midrange is supposed to be directional

 

I wanted to go to the presentation but as I heard that the pianist would have come an hour later and Hans Deutsch would be introducing his speakers till then, I prefered going home and make my acoustical elements (difusors and bass trap).
Also I was not sure if I could have make it to catch the last train home.