Overview of some of the higher end rooms in Munich. A few things they discuss fit in the planar/exotic category.
Video is about 1 hour and 15 minutes long. Equipment discussions start about 10 minutes into video.
They cover more brands than this, but here are a few highlight images:
Monitor Audio Concept 50
Audionec Evo
Alsyvox
Aries Cerat Aurora
Borresen
Video is about 1 hour and 15 minutes long. Equipment discussions start about 10 minutes into video.
They cover more brands than this, but here are a few highlight images:
Monitor Audio Concept 50
Audionec Evo
Alsyvox
Aries Cerat Aurora
Borresen
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That show should be held in Abu Dhabi or something of the kind
It is one of few places where people live that have enough money to buy this extravaganza.
Higher end. Hilarious, it is not even top end, but only higher end.
It is one of few places where people live that have enough money to buy this extravaganza.
Higher end. Hilarious, it is not even top end, but only higher end.
Borresen. Additive manufacturing 🙂
Not sure what use it is in the basket, but good to see it!
There there a name for that type of driver used in the Audionec Evo?
Not sure what use it is in the basket, but good to see it!
There there a name for that type of driver used in the Audionec Evo?
The "higher" designation was mine. It wasn't meant as a term of extreme precision. It was just a description of the topic. All of these descriptors are highly individual. For some people $1000 speakers are completely extravagant, and basically everything at a show like this is "high end".
Beyond the semantics, this interview partially addresses the topic of extreme pricing. I'm not saying it's a great trend for the average person, but the manufacturers are at least partially going where the market is pushing them.
https://www.monoandstereo.com/2020/01/exclusive-interview-with-alsyvox.html
In my view hi-fi died in the '80, now there is only computer/phone music and High End. High End is our desire to bring the musicians in our customer's living room.
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How do you see the current state of the high-end audio industry?
I see that we are losing year after year the lower price market segment.
Apparently, there are fewer and fewer people willing to spend 10-40000€ in a system where the number of people willing to spend 100-400000€ is growing. This growth is in the far east, with the EU and the USA quite constant.
In the larger form, it's typically referred to as a Rubanoide. It's similar to the smaller Linaeum tweeters.