Floor Standing High End Vintage Speakers

For this special loudspeaker focus issue i asked our most senior contributors to each name the twelve loudspeakers that had the greatest impact on high end audio.

Floor standing high end vintage speakers.

Of course the price of most high quality floorstanding speakers isn t for the faint of heart so you ll want to be prepared to drop a hefty sum if you want the benefits therein. 4 7 out of 5 stars 3 580. 112 87 10 used new offers free shipping on eligible orders. These are the speakers that introduced a new technology changed the market influenced future designs or revealed some previously unheard aspect of sound quality.

But oddly the alss are in fact domestically compatible the slender floor to. The speaker was a most unusual looking device for its time being roughly a foot square and standing 3 feet high with a cube of grille cloth at the top like a cupola. Revel harman s premier speaker brand puts its world class engineering prowess to work in the spectacular m16 based concerta2 speaker system a 5 1 channel setup with five speakers and a powerful subwoofer itself worthy of top pick status that can be had for a price that s extremely reasonable by high end audio standards. The als is the natural continuation of the big speakers of the first few decades of high end audio the infinity irs the magnepan tympani 1d etc a type of speaker no longer widely designed these days when lifestyle compatibility has become a dominant force.

Vintage speakers debuted in earlier decades such as the 60s 70s and 80s. When it comes to sound quality newer doesn t always mean better. Like the ar 3 at the high end of the scale the budget priced 4x had no real true competition for years. Sony ss cs3 floor standing speakers.

These smaller ar speakers brought true hi fidelity sound to hundreds of thousands of people yet they sounded very similar to their bigger brethren. Paul rigby follows his guide to vintage amplifiers with a look at some of the most enduring speaker designs. Although modern manufacturers are becoming a little more adventurous the contemporary market has been plagued for several years with banal and restrictive speakers designs guided by a lucrative lifestyle market and. Polk audio t50 150 watt home theater floor standing tower speaker single black hi res audio with deep bass response dolby and dts surround.

Polk audio used to build insanely huge speakers that cost a fortune and still do but then they scaled things back a bit and now they re one of the most affordable of the high end speaker. Ye editor had his first exposure to a true omnidirectional speaker system 15 years ago while he was employed as chief equipment tester for high fidelity magazine. Ar s market share in the mid 1960s was an almost unbelievable 32.