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Top-10 ultimate high-end speakers
Publicado em 27/7/2010 às 11:59h. Fonte: CNET News
The Transmission Ultimate: They don't get much bigger than this!
Sales of ridiculously expensive and absurdly powerful cars are holding steady, and the same can be said for extreme, high-end speakers. Granted, there's no practical reason for the existence of the new 450-horsepower Audi R8 Spyder 5.2 Quattro supercar ($161,000), or a Klipsch P-39F tower speaker ($20,000), but if you can afford them, why not? High-end speakers have one very practical advantage over extreme performance cars; they can provide satisfaction on a daily basis. Few Ferrari and Maserati owners use their flashy wheels as everyday rides, and far fewer are brave enough to drive them anywhere near their top speeds! No, these prized possessions remain stowed in garages most of the time.
Prices listed in this top-10 list are for pairs of speakers, and if these are all out of reach, please don't fret, as the next top-10 speaker list will feature the best sub-$1,000 speakers on the planet. Or check out my " Top-10 must-have audio bargains " list.
I've auditioned many of these ultra-high-end speakers personally, so I can attest that they can take you places everyday speakers never go.
When size matters, go for the gusto and consider the Transmission Audio Ultimate ($2,000,000). It's a rather large speaker--each one consists of six 7-foot-tall panels. Each Ultimate houses a total of 40 15-inch subwoofers, 24 8-inch woofers, and massive arrays of 2-inch-wide and 1-inch-wide ribbon tweeters. I've just described a single channel/speaker; double those numbers for stereo! A pair of Ultimates are nearly 40 feet wide!
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