GUYS. Im sorry! UMG took down 4 of the songs in this video. I thought since the clips were short and used as samples that I would be fine. Turns out no. If you experience holes in sound on a few demos that is why. Sorry for the trouble.
"We gave 8 cents on the dollar to these artists, as we monopolize the means to effective distribution, therefore we own them. You're advertising brief clips no one would seek out to hear in lieu of buying the song or hearing it in full elsewhere on youtube. Want to see my 800 foot yacht?"
The vibe here is amazing. Dads in Kohl's jeans and golf shirts sitting calmly in rows, straining to hear the impossibly minute difference an extra $40,000 makes.
@@goober-ll1wx no it just means that the more expensive one has specs that are a but higher and some features and qualaties that others dont have or are hard to get but its just a preference
A middle class car will bring you in a very good way from point a to b, but you will not be able to win a F1 race with this car. It is like UWQHD Gaming with above 144 Hz and Ultra Settings on a perfect calibrated monitor. The limit is expensive. Or drinking a Glass of 1937 Domain Romaneé Conti instead of a good spanish red wine. Wearing a Patek Grande Complication watch and a Kiton suit instead of a normal Longines and a Hugo Boss suit. The truth is: Most humans could not afford the best of the best. Most humans listen to compressed spotify files or compressed YT Vids. It is all about the last 5%. Dali Zensor 3 are fine speakers, which will satisfy any human being up to 95%. The price increases rapidly above the 95% with 20.000 $ silver speaker cables, the rare japanese vinyl pressing, the Transrotor Artus FMD, MCIntosh Amplifiers and a perfect pair of speakers. By the way - Active Geithain Speakers are the best ones, I have ever listen to. I love the purity of the MEG sound. But I can not afford 'em. I got Dali Speakers. Am I unhappy or envy? No, because many human beings are struggeling with real poverty and hunger, as I did in my early years. But I love to dream about the limits. :)
@@goober-ll1wx I'm an electrical engineer. I was in one of my co-worker's office and I noticed that he had a copy of one of the audiophile magazines on his desk. When I asked him about it, he said he subscribed to it for laughs - he couldn't believe how much people paid for pure quackery.
The soundstage was like you were transformed into the recording studio or into a live concert. i have never experienced anything like that before. really cool to hear them in person
yes. You can be a samsung bluetooth speaker fan and can still appreciate the quality and refinement from some of these outrageously priced speakers. I say outrageous because it is multiples of $$$ beyond my comforts in spending. For some people spending that much on speakers is normal. Just like how we have ultra expensive cars. For some people thats normal. Some of these did have justifiable means for their price in terms of performance. On some of these styling was a factor too. I may never be able to or want to buy a set. Its fun to check out whats out there though
Every hobby from stamp collecting to high end audio is fascinating in it's own way. Thanks for this tour of high end audio speaker systems.. my DX-9 Cerwin Vegas are humbled!!!!
@@bkraglable The amplifiers are built in, one matched per driver, class AB, powered by a class D supply. They are called BASH amplifiers, and are very efficient with very low self noise.
Ah, but how much of each and where to put it is where the cost comes from. ;) 20 years ago I took $800 in high end components, used 2 different box building programs (to cross-check my work), and built MTM's that sounded as good as anything under $5k at the time. Rich snobby people like exclusivity and bragging rights. I like music. I built amazing sounding speakers which have always sounded amazing regardless of the room size.
MotivatedMetalworks oh god music is like food as restaurants is like speakers. It’s not only how good the food is but how it presented, looks, feel, the experience of it all and yes even the name of it. It’s just how it is when you go up the price point.
@MAD GRUMPYMAN Yikes bro. I think the original comment was implying people should be thankful they aren’t deaf and have functioning that ears let them distinguish between all of these expensive speakers in the first place.
People not familiar with extreme high-end audio may not understand this. You’ve heard it said that it sounds like you’re really there. That’s not what happens here. It becomes almost scary, because you truly have the sensation that there is a physical presence in the room. And you can pinpoint the exact spot in the room that they are in. This becomes so compelling and so engaging, that for those that can afford this, it’s easily worth it.
If you'll purchase a pair of those $220,000 GOBEL DIVIN NOBLESSE speakers for me, I’ll gladly pay you a dollar each year until I get them paid off. I’ll pick them up on Tuesday when I go for my physical therapy session. Thanks buddy, you’re the best.
@@swifty1969 Damn, I was so hopeful. Trust me, if I knew @thathometheaterdude would pay for the speakers, I would get the amp and cables. He's a great guy, but I seriously doubt he'll buy the speakers, BUT, I still have a glimmer of hope, but it's fading quickly. lol....
Some cool sounds there. Even though I am listening through TH-cam and a pair of Sony XB950 N1’s headphones I can still get a realistic sense of what this kit sounds like ... thanks for the recording
I tried getting the best audio I could. My puppy broke my studio mic that records in ultra high res. Its not intended to a a direct representation, but even when I play back on the cell phone it sounds great.
Went there that year. Also went a couple years prior and hung out with the mbl staff past midnight. Some fight broke out in the hallway but we basically just chilled and listened to Pink Floyd and Black Sabbath.
I am happy with my home made speakers. They are over 35 years old now, and still going strong. They each have one 12" woofer, 2 midrange speakers, and 4 tweeters. Cost a lot less, lasts forever.
@@jeremydewitte9823 you have no idea lol. scanspeak, seas visaton all loudspeaker manufacture companies they have speakers for 100 300 1000 but also for 2000 euro. when you make a 3way speaker for 6k with a crossover of 2k. you can make your own speakers for 14k + the wood and damping. you can easily beat speakers of 100k with that.. what you dont understand is that speakers need to be build well 15k nice paint and care 20k . the factory, machines, employees etc need to be payed. 45k. putting the speakers in famous studios and events, / marketing 50k (or way higher). than the speaker needs to be sended to shops all over the world and the new price tag of 100k comes on it. i have build a few speakers, and ive heard allot of 800 series b&w and focal and jbl etc . and i truly believe this in the diy audio world its a known thing and its allot said: building your own speakers can be 5 to 8 times cheaper
I’ve been an audiophile for 30 years and have installed audio and video equipment for 20 for residential, commercial, and professional sound reinforcement applications. I’ve owned a ton of speakers(all bought used) but no way I’d ever spend not even over $1000 for a pair of speakers when I can just build my own to my standards. I’ve heard many expensive speakers and I can’t ever recall being totally blown away by anything. The bottom line is that when you go to a live performance they’re not using any of these high end speakers. You’re hearing some horn loaded speakers from JBL, EV, LAcoustics, Meyer, Renkus Heinz, Peavey, etc. And it sounds good to you doesn’t it? The people that can afford these speakers shown here are usually not even true audiophiles. They just have deep pockets. After a certain dollar figure speakers become conversation pieces just like artwork. Mark up on audio equipment is ridiculous. I’ve seen from 100% to 1000%. So keep that in mind the next time you buy new speakers.
AudioGMan I bought vintage klipsch quartets, with my blue series vintage pioneer....sounds absolutely amazing. 1200 bucks total. I’ll never change up my system again!
True to a degree. There is a point of diminishing returns. However, a pair of B&W 800D3s will smoke any commercial speaker in transparency , imaging, and musical accuracy.
Not your Granny's sound system back in 1970, that's for sure. I listened in the early 60's and later to an AM transistor radio with a one ear Mono earphone and it was BLISS.
Unbeliavable, that's just ... too perfect, oh my god ..the more i watched the video, the more my jaw dropped without noticing it ... that was just ... heaven. FIRE !!! good work.
From the mid 60’s well into the 80’s I was building my own tube and also transistor amps and numerous speakers until integrated circuits became commonplace and prices came down. The systems in the video are very impressive but definitely a case of diminishing returns! I was accused more than once of just listening to the equipment and not the music- which is actually what it’s all about! Ouch - Touché !
Yes. I started with a $1k system at a teenager and worked my way up to my current system. It is diminishing returns though a $100k system doesn't sound twice as good as a $50k system. I listened to a $250k system the other day and it sounded amazing but probably only twice as good as a $50k system. It's subjective I know but the simple answer is you can't get amazing sound out of cheap systems. You can get good sound but not amazing sound. Most people don't set their speakers up ideally or deal with their room acoustics. A friend of mine bought a $15k system the other day which sounded amazing in the store in their listening room but rubbish at home as he set it up in a room with a tiled floor and two walls of glazing with no curtains. He could put a $100k system in that room and it would sound rubbish compared to a $4k system in a room with decent volume and acoustics.
You can appreciate quality without having to buy it. I understand that these are out of almost all of our means, but for the price of admission to AXPONA its worth it to check out the complete opposite end of the spectrum. Same addage goes. You can have an inexpensive car and make it faster and look better but it wont have the prestige of a ferrari. I'll never own a ferrari but i can admire it for what it is.
A long time ago, when CD was just maturing the 8x Oversampling Players began to arrive, I didn't noticed much difference from the 4X Oversampling ones... until I played Dire Strait's "Brothers in Arms"... I was totally impressed to notice the stellar sound quality of the recording (Using Martin Logan ESL's). We made ABX blind testing and yes, 100% of the time I was able to distinguish 4X from 8X Oversampling Players, but failed into the "Random" when trying other regular recordings... So I think that "Brothers in Arms" might be the most well recorded Rock/Pop Album ever.
@@igalaviz Also the "loudness wars" in the CD era pushed sound engineers to increase the loudness of an album so that when played on the radio their songs would stand out merely by being louder. The effect is that quiet sections of music got louder but the loud parts didn't have any room to expand. The difference between the loudest and quietest sections of music is what makes music more dynamic and this loudness obsession was compressing that separation between loud and quiet. Dire Straits albums tend to have a high dynamic range: dr.loudness-war.info/album/list?artist=Dire%20Straits
@lord of the flys Yes, I Robot has a Gorgeous sound too... But I also like "Brothers in Arms" they are both excellent albums from the musical standpoint and excellent sounding. Also I like Collective Soul's self tittled album, Bachbusters from Telarc, Classical Gas from American Gramaphone, etc...
They almost always use the most whitebread music to audition the gear but I still take that Dire Straights over Diana Krall or some Spanish guitar music so boring it makes half the audience fall asleep.
By far 1 of the coolest videos I ever watched on TH-cam, these surround sound systems were crazy! The prices were even crazier 😂😂😂 Awesome Stuff though! Awesome stuff! 👍🏼
Here's the thing: The people who can afford such luxury are mostly older, wealthy folks. As you get older, your hearing losses prevent you from hearing the intricate details of the music. Your dog, on the other hand, will wag his/her tail happily...
you underestimate wealth. most are under 50. regardless, hearing does not normally deteriorate only due to age. people who have lived their life with a passion for sound protect their hearing. here is the dumb aspect of high end audiophile setups, you can't sound better than live and live doesn't cost 100k... to add to that, nearly all the music featured use things like guitar amplifiers or other music that is electronic or played through speakers while recorded... so the sound quality is literally completely made up past a certain point, and that point is definitely not 100k. these people are morons.
@@ThatHomeTheaterDude i'm not mad. just stating a thought. thinking that i shouldn't have input and should butt out of anything that relates to someone else is pretty communist. are you a communist?
I once attended a high end audio show in Bangkok where all these manufacturers were present. Until then, I didn't even know it was possible to spend almost a million dollars on home audio gear. It was pretty eye opening..... er... ear opening.
One can only dream...but for me it's more of a science project when it comes to speakers. I've changed speakers a lot but the amp definitely seems the most important aspect.
Right off the bat I liked the first speakers. What brand are they? And the white boat looking speakers. You would really notice how wonderful these speakers are if you had cheap ones like mine to compare to. Thanks for sharing.
The only reason I would ever consider spending so much on a pair of speakers was if they looked amazing and I had won the lottery. I genuinely believe even many audiophiles would struggle to differentiate in a blind sound test against a well chosen system totalling $2500 (amp, CD player & speakers).
Maybe maybe not. Wine nerds can sniff a glass of wine blindfolded and tell you which side of the bank it came from in france. With people like that in the world i would think that there would be people that could tell the difference. Can most of us? maybe not. It was fun to experience though
I read the other 2 replies and, have to 110% agree with you. We all hear differently. Wine tasting is a horrible analogy. Wine has etched in stone way about it. Sound does not. Listening is subjective.
These setups are mostly avant garde trash for rich people that want to show off high loudness in their big rooms. You can get incredibly close to perfection with Genelec, Neumann or JBL studio monitors.
Bays Audio Counterpoint..just wow. I always found these high priced speakers to be a bit a snake oil in terms of audio, and more about selling the look of the speakers till the sound demo for the Bays Audio Counterpoint came up. I was looking away from the screen texting, and suddenly found myself staring at the screen like listening to a professional musician do a street performance.
Eine Hifi Anlage kann immer nur so gut klingen wie der Raum in dem sie spielen muss. IMMER wieder witzig wie schlecht die Räume sind auf Messen und es Händler gibt die dann versuchen es doch noch hinzu biegen. :-)
Audio G Man your exactly on spot. Currently myself have all the the speaker brand's you mentioned run from qsc and crest amps basically pa system. And it sounds amazing!!! Lucky me no one likes big amps and speakers anymore. I got 3200 watts of crystal clean power and a wall of speakers for under $1500 I have performances live in my home. 😄
I have 14 LG Music Flow WiFi speakers all over my house. Will they compete with anything in this video? Christ, not even close, no chance. But, it is music everywhere, even in the garage, with unlimited source material for music. For $1500, I'm very pleased. All I really need now, are some stylish speaker stands to bring them up to the proper listening height.
@@Tacet137 No seriously, I've been to shows like this and some of the speakers sound incredible, but they're usually not the most expensive. There's no need to pay over 100K for a pair no matter how rich you are, unless you like throwing money away. Speakers costing a quarter of that amount can sound better if well designed/properly set up.
I just found some Sansui SP-300 speakers for that price (with an Akai RTR extra). Those beasts are huge and heavy (74lbs each!). But they need a big room to shine. So I might have to get rid of them. Their efficiency is crazy.. would work awesome with a tube amp or a First Watt amp I believe. I knew they were too big for me but for that price I had to give it a shot. Plugged to a Pioneer SX-636, you can't turn the volume past 9 o'clock, it's too loud already (and not distorted).
Seriously, the prices are just made over to cover the vendor design, development and productions costs, $ not always representative of speaker capability. Do 200KUSD speakers sound way better than 50kUSD speakers?
To all the folks saying bad things about the expense of these products. THE ARTISTS POUR THEIR hearts into these albums...I wish the way we replicated them were with solid gold bombastic machines! I’d rather waste my life this way than 1000 others. Listening to others tell stories is what makes us HUMAN.
Worakls Caprice, Nightwish The Islander and then Last of the Wilds, Joachim Pastor Fixi, Boston Rock & Roll Band, Eagles Already Gone. Just a few, but my gosh, let's breath some life into those things. If I'm going to spend 100K on a sound system and listen to piano, might as well hire a professional pianist and buy a piano and have them play it live, as someone above mentioned.
Great Video. I loved the show! At 6:42, Those are not Focal Speakers. Those are the Elac NAVIS ARF-51 Powered Speakers designed by Andrew Jones. And they're awesome! : )
@@ThatHomeTheaterDude imagine me bringing a famous Dutch HiFi brand to the convention. It's really well made yet no one knows about it besides people here.
33Ddg209Ret7 you Sir are so right about everything! Thank goodness Klipsch still make those classics! The fall of Altec was the rise of JBL . I am however very proud and happy to have the Model 14, a piece of history!
Almost 200,000 for a pair of speakers and then you still need to buy the amps and wires turntable EXC. I think I'll just buy a house lol. But to be honest I wouldn't mind having that kind of money just to blow on some stuff I want but don't need. Nice video man hope to be able to hear some of those in person some day.👍
A $100 DAC + headphone amp paired with a good $75 headphones is enough for me. My ears have never listened to $1000+ setups so basically are still virgins in audiophile world. I hope I never listen to one that makes me want one
Tell me about it. I forked out for some new speakers last year and got them home to find they sounded pretty average on my to of the range Onkyo AVR. Went back to the shop and got an Electrocompaniet stereo amp to drive them and they now sound amazing. Just a much more expensive day that I had planned for, let alone the grief from my wife.
The majority of the people listening to these systems can't hear jack sh*t above 10kHz (because they are in their mid 50s), let alone do they have a room with the proper acoustic treatment to put place these systems
GUYS. Im sorry! UMG took down 4 of the songs in this video. I thought since the clips were short and used as samples that I would be fine. Turns out no. If you experience holes in sound on a few demos that is why. Sorry for the trouble.
Thanks for the explanation, but there is no need to apologize for copyright asshattery. After all, THEY are the ones being dicks.
UMG strikes again, youre not the only channel to be struck by those...bad people
@33Ddg209Ret7 Great banter.
It's so dumb. A sound sample could increase the people who get exposed to the music and buy it. DUMB, DUMB, DUMB. This could be free advertising.
"We gave 8 cents on the dollar to these artists, as we monopolize the means to effective distribution, therefore we own them. You're advertising brief clips no one would seek out to hear in lieu of buying the song or hearing it in full elsewhere on youtube. Want to see my 800 foot yacht?"
Fun fact: All that music was mixed and mastered on cheaper gear/monitors.
So what? Just because something was monitored on gear costing
There could some recording studios have Focal Grande Utopia Grande EM EVOs as far Field monitors and they are such a pretty penny.
A pair of Yamaha NS10's
Thats because most of these speakers are severely over priced.
Fun fact: You can record a Drumset only with vintage Neumann mics. It would cost over 100000€/$.
$200,000 I will just hire the musicians to come to the house and play while I sip some Pappy
you can only do that one time
I do love to sip some pappy van winkle.
Most of the musicians you'll play won't earn what you gave the speaker company from the music you play on it.
@@zteaxon7787 not to mention that some people are dead.
That made me laugh. Thx
3:53 Amazing sound quality. No crackling vinyl sound. No distortion. Marvellous!
Jajaja
Oh wow I can hear that quality through my Creative Labs PC speakers!
@Jelmer Vroomans he meant that his speakers are cheap. Think before you write.
@Jelmer Vroomans creative labs is fucking horrible speakers lol
@@wissan24 I disagree
I am an audiophile and I can clearly here the difference through my Beats bluetooth headphone.
@@WhollySchiit lolz
The vibe here is amazing. Dads in Kohl's jeans and golf shirts sitting calmly in rows, straining to hear the impossibly minute difference an extra $40,000 makes.
Well said.
Hardcore pawn: 'i give you 5 dollar'
best I can do is $2
Gotta frame it lol
Fetish realm gear. Most humans on the planet would not be able to tell whether a $120,000 setup sounds better than an $8,000 one in a blind test.
@@goober-ll1wx no it just means that the more expensive one has specs that are a but higher and some features and qualaties that others dont have or are hard to get but its just a preference
@@goober-ll1wx i wasnt trying to bash your comment at all but ok
A middle class car will bring you in a very good way from point a to b, but you will not be able to win a F1 race with this car. It is like UWQHD Gaming with above 144 Hz and Ultra Settings on a perfect calibrated monitor. The limit is expensive.
Or drinking a Glass of 1937 Domain Romaneé Conti instead of a good spanish red wine. Wearing a Patek Grande Complication watch and a Kiton suit instead of a normal Longines and a Hugo Boss suit.
The truth is: Most humans could not afford the best of the best.
Most humans listen to compressed spotify files or compressed YT Vids.
It is all about the last 5%.
Dali Zensor 3 are fine speakers, which will satisfy any human being up to 95%. The price increases rapidly above the 95% with 20.000 $ silver speaker cables, the rare japanese vinyl pressing, the Transrotor Artus FMD, MCIntosh Amplifiers and a perfect pair of speakers.
By the way - Active Geithain Speakers are the best ones, I have ever listen to.
I love the purity of the MEG sound. But I can not afford 'em.
I got Dali Speakers. Am I unhappy or envy? No, because many human beings are struggeling with real poverty and hunger, as I did in my early years. But I love to dream about the limits. :)
@@michaelh.6353 you said it perfectly
@@goober-ll1wx I'm an electrical engineer. I was in one of my co-worker's office and I noticed that he had a copy of one of the audiophile magazines on his desk. When I asked him about it, he said he subscribed to it for laughs - he couldn't believe how much people paid for pure quackery.
I'm a musician and a fan of quality sounding speakers but I will never understand why anyone would pay so much for a pair of speakers. Great vid.
The soundstage was like you were transformed into the recording studio or into a live concert. i have never experienced anything like that before. really cool to hear them in person
PolkFan....can you understand why anyone would buy a Ferrari?
@@ThatHomeTheaterDude the tannoy d700 is the best speakers on planet earth
yes. You can be a samsung bluetooth speaker fan and can still appreciate the quality and refinement from some of these outrageously priced speakers. I say outrageous because it is multiples of $$$ beyond my comforts in spending. For some people spending that much on speakers is normal. Just like how we have ultra expensive cars. For some people thats normal. Some of these did have justifiable means for their price in terms of performance. On some of these styling was a factor too. I may never be able to or want to buy a set. Its fun to check out whats out there though
Sir I sagest if you can find the tannoy d700 just bye them the best speakers on planet earth
Every hobby from stamp collecting to high end audio is fascinating in it's own way. Thanks for this tour of high end audio speaker systems.. my DX-9 Cerwin Vegas are humbled!!!!
Awesome buddy!
IMHO the best bang for the buck, are the Sonist Concerto 4’s👍🔊😎.
6:38 are Navis f 51 speakers by Elac.Focal doesn´t use concentric mid and tweeter.
I like sound. do you maybe what amplifier, source drives them?
@@bkraglable looks like audioalchemy and a streamer,by elac too.
@@bkraglable The amplifiers are built in, one matched per driver, class AB, powered by a class D supply. They are called BASH amplifiers, and are very efficient with very low self noise.
This hobby is absolutely nuts! Let your ears guide you. Not the looks and not the price.
*Me watching this video on my phone with the audio coming through my phone's speaker* "wow the quality of these speakers is so good"
Wait until they realize that speakers are just paper and magnets.
seriously. thats what it boils down to.
You forgot metal wood plastic and damping material..
Plus a copper wire voice coil
Ah, but how much of each and where to put it is where the cost comes from. ;)
20 years ago I took $800 in high end components, used 2 different box building programs (to cross-check my work), and built MTM's that sounded as good as anything under $5k at the time.
Rich snobby people like exclusivity and bragging rights.
I like music. I built amazing sounding speakers which have always sounded amazing regardless of the room size.
MotivatedMetalworks oh god music is like food as restaurants is like speakers. It’s not only how good the food is but how it presented, looks, feel, the experience of it all and yes even the name of it. It’s just how it is when you go up the price point.
Me: Has Android phone speaker
Also me: Let's see how these speakers sound on my phone
If I play this video on my tv through the home theatre it's almost like having these speakers in my house and is a helluva lot cheaper!
Oh the agony of listening to speakers that cost more than car thru an iPhone speaker.
😂
And yet you can still hear the shonky room that some of those were squished into... says something about where you put your speakers etc :)
😓😓😓😓
I'm doing it through my home theater. So I can really soak in the ivy league priced experience.
Not for me... I got a Honor P10.lite ^^ 😂
Even you can spend trillian $ on a speaker. The final judge are your ears, so think what God gifted you is priceless.
well said
Amazingly, not one of those ultra high-end systems sounded any better than my lowly, humble & inexpensive HK computer monitors.
@MAD GRUMPYMAN Yikes bro. I think the original comment was implying people should be thankful they aren’t deaf and have functioning that ears let them distinguish between all of these expensive speakers in the first place.
Oh, how nice speakers. I would never pay for a pair of speakers more than my house is worth. My pair of KRK are just fine. ;)
People not familiar with extreme high-end audio may not understand this. You’ve heard it said that it sounds like you’re really there. That’s not what happens here. It becomes almost scary, because you truly have the sensation that there is a physical presence in the room. And you can pinpoint the exact spot in the room that they are in. This becomes so compelling and so engaging, that for those that can afford this, it’s easily worth it.
If you'll purchase a pair of those $220,000 GOBEL DIVIN NOBLESSE speakers for me, I’ll gladly pay you a dollar each year until I get them paid off. I’ll pick them up on Tuesday when I go for my physical therapy session. Thanks buddy, you’re the best.
smajourney51 😂
Jokes on you, you didn’t arrange for an amp, processor or cabling!
@@grazen321 Geez, you got me on a technicality. For $220,000, it should come with everything, lol....
it doesn't. The price is for speakers only I'm afraid. @@smajourney5122
@@swifty1969 Damn, I was so hopeful. Trust me, if I knew @thathometheaterdude would pay for the speakers, I would get the amp and cables. He's a great guy, but I seriously doubt he'll buy the speakers, BUT, I still have a glimmer of hope, but it's fading quickly. lol....
Some cool sounds there. Even though I am listening through TH-cam and a pair of Sony XB950 N1’s headphones I can still get a realistic sense of what this kit sounds like ... thanks for the recording
I tried getting the best audio I could. My puppy broke my studio mic that records in ultra high res. Its not intended to a a direct representation, but even when I play back on the cell phone it sounds great.
Nice video, those speakers in the thumbnail look like something you'd find on the Starship Enterprise. Commander Riker does love his jazz.
4:30 !!! dream system for me .. loved it thanks !!
Went there that year. Also went a couple years prior and hung out with the mbl staff past midnight.
Some fight broke out in the hallway but we basically just chilled and listened to Pink Floyd and Black Sabbath.
I've mixed/mastered on the 800 Series Diamond B&W's. They are mind blowing.
Some mighty fine speakers there! Some real ugly ones as well!
The ugly ones are probably aimed at audiophiles.😂
Hey!! That's ART damn it!! 🤪😏
I know that line ,its a reference to something
Yet at the same time costing you a pretty penny 😂😂😂
Them bayz counterpoint. Bloody hell sound amazing..
I am happy with my home made speakers. They are over 35 years old now, and still going strong. They each have one 12" woofer, 2 midrange speakers, and 4 tweeters. Cost a lot less, lasts forever.
That’s a long way to say you’re not jealous by saying you’re jealous. You know nothing about the equipment on here. How do you know it doesn’t last?
@@jeremydewitte9823 you have no idea lol. scanspeak, seas visaton all loudspeaker manufacture companies they have speakers for 100 300 1000 but also for 2000 euro.
when you make a 3way speaker for 6k with a crossover of 2k. you can make your own speakers for 14k + the wood and damping.
you can easily beat speakers of 100k with that..
what you dont understand is that speakers need to be build well 15k nice paint and care 20k . the factory, machines, employees etc need to be payed. 45k. putting the speakers in famous studios and events, / marketing 50k (or way higher). than the speaker needs to be sended to shops all over the world and the new price tag of 100k comes on it.
i have build a few speakers, and ive heard allot of 800 series b&w and focal and jbl etc . and i truly believe this
in the diy audio world its a known thing and its allot said: building your own speakers can be 5 to 8 times cheaper
I cannot tell you how great this sounded on my $5.00 pair of Walgreen’s ear phones
I’ve been an audiophile for 30 years and have installed audio and video equipment for 20 for residential, commercial, and professional sound reinforcement applications. I’ve owned a ton of speakers(all bought used) but no way I’d ever spend not even over $1000 for a pair of speakers when I can just build my own to my standards. I’ve heard many expensive speakers and I can’t ever recall being totally blown away by anything. The bottom line is that when you go to a live performance they’re not using any of these high end speakers. You’re hearing some horn loaded speakers from JBL, EV, LAcoustics, Meyer, Renkus Heinz, Peavey, etc. And it sounds good to you doesn’t it? The people that can afford these speakers shown here are usually not even true audiophiles. They just have deep pockets. After a certain dollar figure speakers become conversation pieces just like artwork. Mark up on audio equipment is ridiculous. I’ve seen from 100% to 1000%. So keep that in mind the next time you buy new speakers.
Yep, it's coloured sound at most. Not better quality sound by any stretch. I have a pair of Meyers that I guarantee sound better.
very well said.
AudioGMan
I bought vintage klipsch quartets, with my blue series vintage pioneer....sounds absolutely amazing.
1200 bucks total. I’ll never change up my system again!
Right PA systems are the answer
True to a degree. There is a point of diminishing returns. However, a pair of B&W 800D3s will smoke any commercial speaker in transparency , imaging, and musical accuracy.
All those expensive and amazing speakers sound outstanding on my Klipsch's
Not your Granny's sound system back in 1970, that's for sure. I listened in the early 60's and later to an AM transistor radio with a one ear Mono earphone and it was BLISS.
Unbeliavable, that's just ... too perfect, oh my god ..the more i watched the video, the more my jaw dropped without noticing it ... that was just ... heaven. FIRE !!! good work.
*Have you ever heard of the EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES sound system?*
Well said !
Oh wow. Those U shaped ones were stunning.
5:57
Oh man it looks like a high-tech coffee machine :/
By any chance do you know the name of the track playing?
I love how they are playing some Lupe Fiasco at a high end audio show. Some good stuff there.
Classy AF :)
Lol I was almost sold 😂
From the mid 60’s well into the 80’s I was building my own tube and also transistor amps and numerous speakers until integrated circuits became commonplace and prices came down.
The systems in the video are very impressive but definitely a case of diminishing returns! I was accused more than once of just listening to the equipment and not the music- which is actually what it’s all about! Ouch - Touché !
Impressed that one of our tracks was used to demonstrate the audio fidelity on a state of the art acoustic system.
Wow they played Lupe?? I approve 🔥
Kick push my man
That Home Theater Dude Absolutely 💪🏾💪🏾
I was surprised at that too!!! 🛹
My mind would've exploded at this event!!
Awesome video!! I'd love to see and hear all that in person!!
Do they sound significantly better than say, a 4k dollar system?
Yes. I started with a $1k system at a teenager and worked my way up to my current system. It is diminishing returns though a $100k system doesn't sound twice as good as a $50k system. I listened to a $250k system the other day and it sounded amazing but probably only twice as good as a $50k system. It's subjective I know but the simple answer is you can't get amazing sound out of cheap systems. You can get good sound but not amazing sound. Most people don't set their speakers up ideally or deal with their room acoustics. A friend of mine bought a $15k system the other day which sounded amazing in the store in their listening room but rubbish at home as he set it up in a room with a tiled floor and two walls of glazing with no curtains. He could put a $100k system in that room and it would sound rubbish compared to a $4k system in a room with decent volume and acoustics.
You can appreciate quality without having to buy it. I understand that these are out of almost all of our means, but for the price of admission to AXPONA its worth it to check out the complete opposite end of the spectrum. Same addage goes. You can have an inexpensive car and make it faster and look better but it wont have the prestige of a ferrari. I'll never own a ferrari but i can admire it for what it is.
@@justinmorris2740 Good points
These speaker makers really like Dire Straights!
A long time ago, when CD was just maturing the 8x Oversampling Players began to arrive, I didn't noticed much difference from the 4X Oversampling ones... until I played Dire Strait's "Brothers in Arms"... I was totally impressed to notice the stellar sound quality of the recording (Using Martin Logan ESL's). We made ABX blind testing and yes, 100% of the time I was able to distinguish 4X from 8X Oversampling Players, but failed into the "Random" when trying other regular recordings... So I think that "Brothers in Arms" might be the most well recorded Rock/Pop Album ever.
@lord of the flys Alchemy live. Quality wouldn't be great on a quality system, but musically it's superb. A landmark album in my life 👍
@@igalaviz Also the "loudness wars" in the CD era pushed sound engineers to increase the loudness of an album so that when played on the radio their songs would stand out merely by being louder. The effect is that quiet sections of music got louder but the loud parts didn't have any room to expand. The difference between the loudest and quietest sections of music is what makes music more dynamic and this loudness obsession was compressing that separation between loud and quiet. Dire Straits albums tend to have a high dynamic range: dr.loudness-war.info/album/list?artist=Dire%20Straits
@lord of the flys Yes, I Robot has a Gorgeous sound too... But I also like "Brothers in Arms" they are both excellent albums from the musical standpoint and excellent sounding. Also I like Collective Soul's self tittled album, Bachbusters from Telarc, Classical Gas from American Gramaphone, etc...
They almost always use the most whitebread music to audition the gear but I still take that Dire Straights over Diana Krall or some Spanish guitar music so boring it makes half the audience fall asleep.
By far 1 of the coolest videos I ever watched on TH-cam, these surround sound systems were crazy! The prices were even crazier 😂😂😂 Awesome Stuff though! Awesome stuff! 👍🏼
is it SB Acoustics WO24P? because the price of that driver is like 240 bucks each 😂
Still rocking “Dire Straits” at the shows w B&W’s. Sweet!
Old school
Wouldn’t have it any other way...
"The Bayz audio Counterpoints are only $97,100 a pair. Not $194,200. Sorry about the confusion. " Thank you for that info, now i will buy them :)
These sound amazing through my $40 Logitech speakers! :)
🔊😂me to😂🔊
Yep, here I am listening through my phone and a $20 Bluetooth speaker! I'm REALLY feeling the experience! LOL!
Here's the thing:
The people who can afford such luxury are mostly older, wealthy folks. As you get older, your hearing losses prevent you from hearing the intricate details of the music. Your dog, on the other hand, will wag his/her tail happily...
thats a good way of thinking about it
you underestimate wealth. most are under 50. regardless, hearing does not normally deteriorate only due to age. people who have lived their life with a passion for sound protect their hearing. here is the dumb aspect of high end audiophile setups, you can't sound better than live and live doesn't cost 100k... to add to that, nearly all the music featured use things like guitar amplifiers or other music that is electronic or played through speakers while recorded... so the sound quality is literally completely made up past a certain point, and that point is definitely not 100k. these people are morons.
Why are you mad Carl? Are you ever going to buy these speakers? How does this affect you at all? Let others live their lives. Their lives arent yours
@@ThatHomeTheaterDude i'm not mad. just stating a thought. thinking that i shouldn't have input and should butt out of anything that relates to someone else is pretty communist. are you a communist?
I think Carl said it best. After a certain point it's just a waste of money but to each their own. I got 1000$ JL w7s subwoofers n amp.lol
I love that they were playing "Ride Across The River" by Dire Straits!! Such a wonderful song!
These are something you'd only buy in The Sims.
I once attended a high end audio show in Bangkok where all these manufacturers were present. Until then, I didn't even know it was possible to spend almost a million dollars on home audio gear. It was pretty eye opening..... er... ear opening.
I love them all but do a video on the Bayz Audio speakers.
yeah. It was a show stealer for sure. The room always had a line out the door.
Significantly 😮
3:12 are those massive compression drivers used as subs?
One can only dream...but for me it's more of a science project when it comes to speakers. I've changed speakers a lot but the amp definitely seems the most important aspect.
Right off the bat I liked the first speakers. What brand are they? And the white boat looking speakers. You would really notice how wonderful these speakers are if you had cheap ones like mine to compare to. Thanks for sharing.
None of them sounded better than my phone speakers...
Are you high?
Saying that the audio doesn't sound any better through your phone speakers is like saying a 4k tv doesn't look any better through your 480p screen
@@edgesherun9880 he is right, cuz he was using his phone to watch this video.
@@edgesherun9880 joke and meaning passed you over
Thanks Captain.
Wow the Goble sounded sweeeet
im going for the 80 k magnets, just need to sell a few things first like my house, car, kidneys, any takers ?
Tha Bays impressed me the most. I'd like to hear those live someday. Not that I could ever afford them.. or the package that drives them.
I bet the speaker wires cost more than my definitive speakers, lol
Jeff Abercrombie up to $35,000 for an 8 foot cable. 🙄
The big Vandersteen room with the System NINE setup was the best in show for me, I couldn't stay out of there.
I can only imagine....lucky.
The only reason I would ever consider spending so much on a pair of speakers was if they looked amazing and I had won the lottery.
I genuinely believe even many audiophiles would struggle to differentiate in a blind sound test against a well chosen system totalling $2500 (amp, CD player & speakers).
Maybe maybe not. Wine nerds can sniff a glass of wine blindfolded and tell you which side of the bank it came from in france. With people like that in the world i would think that there would be people that could tell the difference. Can most of us? maybe not. It was fun to experience though
I read the other 2 replies and, have to 110% agree with you. We all hear differently. Wine tasting is a horrible analogy. Wine has etched in stone way about it. Sound does not. Listening is subjective.
@@ThatHomeTheaterDude MAYBE not? Really?
These setups are mostly avant garde trash for rich people that want to show off high loudness in their big rooms. You can get incredibly close to perfection with Genelec, Neumann or JBL studio monitors.
2:21 what song should we demo?
*_switches on radio los santos_*
ha!
Show me an Axpona demo system cranking out Cannibal Corpse, Napalm Death or Carcass on full bore, and you'll have my attention.
Sound very nice on Winamp , I just tested it 😂.
I'm happy with my JBL stadium speakers
Thank you for the nice tour my friend
Bays Audio Counterpoint..just wow. I always found these high priced speakers to be a bit a snake oil in terms of audio, and more about selling the look of the speakers till the sound demo for the Bays Audio Counterpoint came up. I was looking away from the screen texting, and suddenly found myself staring at the screen like listening to a professional musician do a street performance.
Hi --sehr schöne Tour ---für mich hier am Standard Laptop Lautsprecher klangen die B&W am besten.
anyone wanting to know the song at 3:03 its Sevdaliza - Human.
Damn I was trying to find this Song so long, saved me!
Whats the song before that/
Eine Hifi Anlage kann immer nur so gut klingen wie der Raum in dem sie spielen muss. IMMER wieder witzig wie schlecht die Räume sind auf Messen und es Händler gibt die dann versuchen es doch noch hinzu biegen. :-)
Audio G Man your exactly on spot. Currently myself have all the the speaker brand's you mentioned run from qsc and crest amps basically pa system. And it sounds amazing!!! Lucky me no one likes big amps and speakers anymore. I got 3200 watts of crystal clean power and a wall of speakers for under $1500
I have performances live in my home. 😄
I have 14 LG Music Flow WiFi speakers all over my house. Will they compete with anything in this video? Christ, not even close, no chance. But, it is music everywhere, even in the garage, with unlimited source material for music. For $1500, I'm very pleased.
All I really need now, are some stylish speaker stands to bring them up to the proper listening height.
I like CH Precision with Bayz Audio.
Paying $100k for stereo speakers is God's way of telling you you have more money than common sense.
Or that you arent a simpleton
@@Tacet137 No seriously, I've been to shows like this and some of the speakers sound incredible, but they're usually not the most expensive. There's no need to pay over 100K for a pair no matter how rich you are, unless you like throwing money away. Speakers costing a quarter of that amount can sound better if well designed/properly set up.
Paying 100k for cocaine is life's way of telling you that you have more cocaine than god
Testing extremely expensive soundsystem with Dire Straits, you are doing it right!
I’ll keep my Radio Shack Realistic speakers, $20 from Craigslist
Haha, a friend of mine had a pair of radio shack Optimus speakers that were pretty sweet back in the day.
I just found some Sansui SP-300 speakers for that price (with an Akai RTR extra). Those beasts are huge and heavy (74lbs each!). But they need a big room to shine. So I might have to get rid of them. Their efficiency is crazy.. would work awesome with a tube amp or a First Watt amp I believe.
I knew they were too big for me but for that price I had to give it a shot. Plugged to a Pioneer SX-636, you can't turn the volume past 9 o'clock, it's too loud already (and not distorted).
Garrett claridge loves his Optimus ones 😂😂😂😂😂
Simple true and LOUD !!
Seriously, the prices are just made over to cover the vendor design, development and productions costs, $ not always representative of speaker capability. Do 200KUSD speakers sound way better than 50kUSD speakers?
To all the folks saying bad things about the expense of these products. THE ARTISTS POUR THEIR hearts into these albums...I wish the way we replicated them were with solid gold bombastic machines! I’d rather waste my life this way than 1000 others. Listening to others tell stories is what makes us HUMAN.
The jazz coming out of those Bayz’s sounded like the orchestra was in the room
Anyone know the namn of the song?
Gianfranco Ambrossi Two Become One by Lester Bowie
Where do you pour the snake oil?
More like the agony of that terrible music thru those expensive speakers
What do you wanna hear? I'll make requests next time
:@@ThatHomeTheaterDude Kids for cars theme song, Sponge Bob "my tighty whiteys, Eraserhead soundtrack. Come on!!!
Sandstorm by Darude
Worakls Caprice, Nightwish The Islander and then Last of the Wilds, Joachim Pastor Fixi, Boston Rock & Roll Band, Eagles Already Gone. Just a few, but my gosh, let's breath some life into those things. If I'm going to spend 100K on a sound system and listen to piano, might as well hire a professional pianist and buy a piano and have them play it live, as someone above mentioned.
@@ThatHomeTheaterDude People want to hear Taylor Swift and garbage like that. Ignore these bozos.
I like that where will find to buy?
But ears frecuency only can handle till 60 hz...
@@Rikitiki00 Ikr i loled hard on this one
Every set of ears is unique,, the money does the rest
Not for me. I can hear well below and well higher than 60 hz. I have perfect pitch
Great Video. I loved the show!
At 6:42, Those are not Focal Speakers. Those are the Elac NAVIS ARF-51 Powered Speakers designed by Andrew Jones. And they're awesome! : )
ah crap. I messed up. Yeah, i stopped by both rooms and i must have mixed up the names. Thanks for the heads up
I’d put my Vintage Altec Lansing Model 14’s in blind test against all those pairs speakers.
Do it. You can bring your stuff to the convention. That would be cool to test out
That Home Theater Dude that would be awesome! Where is it? Model 14 powered with Focusrite Red 5 and Red 4 Preamp!
@@ThatHomeTheaterDude imagine me bringing a famous Dutch HiFi brand to the convention. It's really well made yet no one knows about it besides people here.
33Ddg209Ret7 you Sir are so right about everything! Thank goodness Klipsch still make those classics! The fall of Altec was the rise of JBL . I am however very proud and happy to have the Model 14, a piece of history!
I'd put up my Cerwin up against all theses..lol
Almost 200,000 for a pair of speakers and then you still need to buy the amps and wires turntable EXC. I think I'll just buy a house lol. But to be honest I wouldn't mind having that kind of money just to blow on some stuff I want but don't need. Nice video man hope to be able to hear some of those in person some day.👍
By the time anyone can afford any of this , they will reach an age where an hearing aid may be a better purchase.
so?
@@ThatHomeTheaterDude The point is that they are just ludicrously priced.
@@ThatHomeTheaterDude Luda!
B&W perfect speaker bro❤️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️👍💕👍👍👍
A $100 DAC + headphone amp paired with a good $75 headphones is enough for me. My ears have never listened to $1000+ setups so basically are still virgins in audiophile world. I hope I never listen to one that makes me want one
BAYZ its the most my favorite
th-cam.com/video/R61UGQ0YV74/w-d-xo.html i will send this video live soon. They discussed design and features
And then you have to buy the amplifiers 😅😅😅
yeah. Every room had different amps and different cables featured. This video really should have been titled $1,500,000 HiFi speaker tour.
Tell me about it. I forked out for some new speakers last year and got them home to find they sounded pretty average on my to of the range Onkyo AVR. Went back to the shop and got an Electrocompaniet stereo amp to drive them and they now sound amazing. Just a much more expensive day that I had planned for, let alone the grief from my wife.
@@justinmorris2740 well, against some meanings amplifiers DO have their own sound.
And its easily explained why on an electro technical sight.
That Home Theatre Dude 🤸🤸🤸
The majority of the people listening to these systems can't hear jack sh*t above 10kHz (because they are in their mid 50s), let alone do they have a room with the proper acoustic treatment to put place these systems
Do the Martin Logan electrostatics have a pattern on the panel or is it a trick of the light? It looks like a gold detail in them, gorgeous effect.