made of Cotswold Limestone?

insane but makes sense acoustically speaking
Looks to be same bass driver as from Jamo Concert 8
http://www.avland.co.uk/wa-loudspeakers/wa14/wa14.htm

 

Reminds me of the concrete Avance speakers from many years ago......

Paul.

 

Rory,

These guys were in the room next us at Bristol last year (2004)

 

What does it sound like WM?

Must say, Im a little suprised they go to the extent of making the cabinet out of stone, and then put a rear port on them... not that that is necessarily a bad thing, just that it goes against the accuracy-monitor-ethos of resonance free design.

 

Chris,

They were displaying the whole range, though they're full potential was difficult to judge as the equipment they were using, didn't fully expolit their preformance envelope
Enthusiastic chaps, some serious work had gone into these speakers, they are made in Stroud.
Unfair to give a impression Chris. Wm

 

Funny, it seems to be taking decades for people to make speakers out of sensible materials. Surely it would be dead easy to rotationially mould cabinets like they do plastic cases, out of some polythene composite or whatever.
Stone/concrete cabs are hardly going to be thin walled are they? So 3 to 5 cm of mineral filled plastic would be just as inert, and far more durable

 

the Mordaunt Short Performance speakers i owned (made from '95) are made from Resinrock which is a composite of mineral rocks or something. The new MS Performance range also incorporates this technology.
There are some Performance 860 speakers in the Classifieds btw.

 

Flintstones, meet the Flintstones, there're a modern stone age fam-il-y....

 

I listened to these at Bristol. As WM points out, hard to tell if they were good because of the rubbish front end they use.
On asking, the reponse I got was "but it shows just how good they are even with a cheap front end". Not to me, sounded bloody awful.