Biggest sounding speakers....?

Horns = big soundstage.

Vitavox
Altec
Tannoy
JBL
Westlake

etc

Budget from £1500 +

 

chris,
what were those little single driver things you had a while back? lowthers? or something - for the money they had a massive sound stage - like wearing a big pair of headphones - bugger all bass and rolled off treble though... still sounded good to me.
cheers


julian

 

I would recommend these Rock the joint Having heard these at length, they simply are

 

they are QRS Jupiters, made by a small team of guys in town just outside Göteborg in Sweden. They work in partnership with the Advantage and Bladelius designers.

Not sure of the price, but they beat the MÃ¥rten Design Coltrane (£30k) easily with the same amps and player.

Other top speakers are these, Goldmunds, very nice with Jazz :MILD:

 

lowther acousta's

I thought they were great for the £400 you can get them from.

Curtailed frequency extremes definately a downside of the single driver designs, and a little bit of honking. Their immediacy, impact, and dynamics would be hard to beat at any budget though.

They were horn loaded too, with very little damping - hence the massive sound, but also some honk.

http://www.hi-fiworld.co.uk/hfw/oldeworldehtml/lowtherhornspkrs.html

 

Wire your speakers out of phase. That will give you a big sound.

 

nexo geo system is what ya wants if space is tight,otherwise a nice stack of turbosound flashlights,you aint going to get a much bigger soundstage than these babys

 

Acoustat electrostatics , 6' to 8' high panels, 2' wide, bipolar, like Quad ESL63's on stilts ! have an amazing knack of disappearing. Huge lifelike scale and soundstage. Very rare in UK but seize if you find !

 

go back to my

original post as the rest are hi fi show off bits where as mine were real room / kit suggestions.
WM - eggelstons indeed they are ferking huge ! ( but nice )
the biggest sound i ever heard outside of wembley on that bob geldof do was 2 pairs of thiel elevens in anti phase, in a huge room in manchester possibly the best sound i have ever heard in a physical sense but not in a sublety / detail / coherence sense if that makes SENSE. ?!

 

I'll second the Electrostatic route........

My ML's have a sound stage that starts several feet outside the speakers and across the fifteen feet between them..... I sit about 8feet back on axis. Speakers are about 3/4m from rear and side wall, [toed in by about 30 degrees].

this has caused problems ....on cd has a door bell the same as mine which comes in at the far right [near my front door] with the effect that I go to answer the door with no one there.

 

Von Schweikert VR-11. After hearing these at the launch party at CES we stayed up all night in the Las Vegas ballroom with them just in awe and getting out all the old vinyl
VSA have a reputation with all their loudspeakers for having a huge soundstage.

 

Folks - corect me if I am wrong but I am pretty sure that Electrostatics are Dipolar, not Bipolar as several people have been saying.... i.e. the sound coming out the one side of the speaker is in inverse phase to that coming out of the opposite side. It makes sense if you think about how e'statics work.

 

Altec 604-G drivers in a suitable cabinet. Mind-blowing.

 

They certainly do! Although maybe not one they would like!

 

bipolar......having two poles

dipolar....having poles of equal magnitude

dipole is the term to use here.....for speakers.. as in dipole speakers those that are fixed to a single plane or sheet.

 

Hi,

You might just want to try something out of the far leftfield. Seeing that you are quite near to Noteworthy Audio, they currently have a pair of my acrylic dipoles. May be worthwhile having a listen.



They do need subs for the last octave (they go down to around 50Hz in room, no-more) but visitors to my place have remarked I should be paying more council tax, considering how "big" music sounds through them....

So, have a listen and see if this sort of stuff appeals.

Ciao T

 

AFAIK, the difference between bipolar and dipolar is that in one case the drivers move in "harmony" and in the other they move in the opposite direction. I didn't want to use the terms in-phase or out-of phase because some bright spark is bound to question that.

I'll try and find a link to explain it better.

Here's Polk's view.

 

...not sure what you are implying but after being their UK distributor I could tell a few stories Product is still fantastic though especially considering that the cost of their speakers is much less than what some other manufacturers charge the customer

 

Editted for Isaac's sake.

I'd avoid his company like the plague personally.

 

Stereo Mic - I'm not entirely sure that is appropriate comment as it could be seen as libellous.