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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Munich High End 2011
Post Subject: In such case Silbaone is outclassed.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 5/25/2011
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 ArmAlex wrote:
The price is 167,000 Euro I was told. The material they used for bass cabinet at least looked like MDF. Sound was much better than any speaker I've heard in show, expect Cessaro which was wonderful. BTW Marten, Kharma, Focal, Magico and some other porcelain driver speakers could happily compete for worst sound in the show.

The 167K Euro makes 235K USD. For this money Silbaone topology is well outclassed.  Entire Macondo is 30K-40K level acoustic system. Silbaone new speaker is topologically 3-4 levels less complex and expensive. The price tag of 20K would make it the most popular design, the price tag of $235K will make it to join the army of expensive speakers that no one buys.

It is not the fact that they expensive but they are expensive for the result they offer. The last Silbaone is VERY simple (and very effective for being a package) design and there is nothing in there to be expensive. With the set of JBL/Altec set of drivers it has to be very inexpensive. Silbaone might push the G.I.P driver in the Silbaone and G.I.P might change 30-50K for some WE replica. Still, somebody Armen reports that Cessaro with $2K TAD driver were compatible to Silbaone… so what the purpose to pay more than $700 for a pair of JBL 2440?

Anyhow, I do not make any assumption how the new Silbaone sound but the price that they decided to go out is very disappointing.

Rgs, Romy the Cat

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