$400k in 1996 would get you this crazy stereo system. The mythical Cello Audio system.
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Playing the system for us is the one thing we couldn't arrive at without you. Never understood why YT creators don't realize that. Some do realize it and create some nice videos.
Love the Zappa poster-l could probably afford that.
LOL , you made me laugh so hard ,and yes so true,insane prices. !!!!
😂🤣
I'll have to settle for a screen capture.
Or, I wonder if I put a life size picture of one of these systems at the end of a room, that I could trick myself into believing I have one - with the aid of a good dash of alcohol.
@@paulstubbs7678 At least you couldn't break it or annoy the neebs when yer steamin!
Always wanted more information on Cello! Thanks for the video👍
Very, very nice. Thank you for putting it out there for people like me to admire.
Absolutely amazing. Beautiful!
THey used to use fischer connectors unique This was My dream system when I was younger
And still looking like new, kudos.
$400k would have bought you 5 houses in my street back in 1996 !
Thanks for the information.
The Cello Amati was the same speaker rebranded as Acoustic Research AR LST. The drivers in this speaker seem similar. AR LST is a souped up variant of AR3a using four midrange and four tweeter drivers insead of one each. Both were developed by
Roy Allison. Different variants of the same 12" acoustic suspension AR woofer were manufactured from about 1955 to around the 1990s. The original ones had cast baskets, alnico magnets, and cloth surrounds. The later variants had ferrite magnets, stamped baskets and foam surrouds. They are all considered interchangeable although the mounting cutouts might have some slight variations. One way to identify that driver is by its flat edges on the left and right side. This allowed the original "bookshelf" cabinets to be slightly narrower. The early ones were rated for 150 watts and produced 5% THD at 30 hz. The later ones such as the pair I have in each Teledyne Acoustic Research AR9 speaker are rated at 200 watts each and produce 1% THD at 30 hz. AR manufactured their own drivers although mine were replaced by AR, the originals having had round magnets, mine are square. They might have been outsourced to Tonegen. This was around 1984.
Here's images of the Cello
www.google.com/search?q=cello+amati+speakers&sxsrf=ALeKk02Mov7-P02thDmC7O9Cjp7H5K8AeQ:1618368885323&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjlqJn03fzvAhWYMlkFHUtZCtIQ_AUoAnoECAEQBA&biw=1536&bih=723&dpr=1.25#imgrc=tCBmFIu7CKhQJM
And LST
www.google.com/search?q=ar+lst+speakers&sxsrf=ALeKk01uC_VUVEKl4zkX4BsRFD7rdQTDBw:1618368935943&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjj3aqM3vzvAhXBVDUKHYycBxkQ_AUoAnoECAEQBA&biw=1536&bih=723#imgrc=BCdm0oeL7ysLVM
The AR woofers proved themselves in the mid 1950s when members of the NY Audio Society, predecessor of the AES took four of them along with four 150 watt Western Electric amplifiers to Riverside Church in NYC in a playoff against an Aeolian Skinner pipe organ. They were considered so accurate that they were used in medical schools to teach students what heart sounds were like.
Acoustic Research pioneered many things taken for granted today. Besides the acoustic suspension principle, Edgar Villchur invented the dome midrange and dome tweeter drivers, a turntable with a spring suspended sub chassis that was highly vibration resistant and ferrofluid cooling of tweeters. His equipment was not nearly the most expensive on the market either.
Ah! Cello Audio Palette... More than an equalizer. Probably the most advanced, refined, perfect equalizer that will ever be made.
@Peter Larkin Check out the 1500 dollar unit from Schitt audio.
Simply Beautiful And Amazing Design And Attention To Detail Is Top Level Quality With Timeless Beauty
I got a old garrard record player I found in the trash .
I play screaming lord sutch heavy friends album I found in. Thrift store for 50 cents
I ripped the integrated amp section out of a old magnavox console
The speakers are old ar floor standing but I used bubble gum to patch done holes in the woofer
Sounds great
When I go old fashioned I find stuff in trash and build audiophile systems around others junk
Very decent Antique system. Good luck.
I think maybe playing some music at the end would have made this video memorable.
Very nice review on an older system, LOTS of boxes for sure (O; But, have we really come that far with 2 ch audio in the passing years since? The 'less is more' approach ?
Super,greetings from Poland.
Congratulations on another first rate video production. Wow, this is the holy grail of systems. But is there a reason, why on your videos you never state your opinion on how the equipment sounds?
I'd love to work there.
I love SkyFi audio and all the vids but why don't you ever play something? Would be cool.
Can't imagine what the phase issue is like with so many tweeters , line array never made it because in of this issue .
Interference effects because of closely spaced drivers. Not to mention lobing and comb filtering.
@@socksumi those effects are negligible, they are cancelled out by how cool the speakers look
DEMO WHILE PLAYING NEEDED
Its the best!
Beautiful...abdolutely, but I couldn't find the Pioneer SX 1980....
No mention of the turntable feeding the system?
Or was the turntable a stand-in to make it look complete, the digital box seemed to be doing all the work - well at least it's lights suggested it was.
Then again there has that Sonos box tucked in around the side.
There was a physician in our town that had one of those Cello systems only I think he had Duntech speakers. I've heard that parts aren't available for any of that gear. That would be a kick in the balls.
The price you pay for having custom everything
Just saw a quick subliminal flash in the solar panel commercial.
He forgot to push the PLAY-button and let us hear how this beast sounds!
Edit: ok he explained why in the final 20 seconds of this video, but not all people are watching this on a phone though but I can understand his reasoning
Interesting. First time I see this.
400K in the 90's is probably a million today. What's this whole thing going for now? Audio equipment doesn't always age like fine wine lol.
Even today $400k would get you a very nice system.
I agree. I got two Russian bride's a keg and a pizza for a lot less.
I had the Cello Palette preamp and the Cello Duet 350 amplifier. Retail was about $18,000 for the two components. A real work of art in audio design and ascetics.
Why did you part with it? WHY!!??
@@keesvanwoerden2156 I had good times with em for years then moved on to something else....you know the drill~~~
Are those speakers wired in series?
I’ll take em!
Yes,very very Crazy
I built everyone of those speakers with my friend Evan
Ahh, the good old days. Plain old rectangular enclosures sitting right on the floor, universal style drivers just lined up in a row. Before speaker design got complicated. These days a well experienced DIYer could replicate those speakers with likely equivalent performance for a few thousand dollars tops. We’ve come a long way.
This is from the early 90s so not really good old days yet.
I got a I phone and Bluetooth device that has built in lights
It’s easy. To get music off internet and it sounds great
But your system doesn't have special knobs, rare cards and 400k speakers so it's trash
I love that audio rack. What is the brand? Do you sell racks?
looks like a Salamander rack
Salamander Archetype
It's just a few slabs of wood with 4 lengths of running thread & nuts holding it all together.
Wha? 😳
Damn mind tricked me into thinking 400$ for a second there 😂😂😂
You mean this would NOT be 400 bucks? Then how much?
lol yeah and the sad thing is that i can also not afford that either 😕
Do you know which designers worked on the Cello system components?
Mark Levinsons chief designer was Tom Colangelo. He died a few years ago by car accident. The inventor for the Audio Palette was Dick Burwen.
Tweeter looping
Thanks for this video.Dick Burwen en Thomas Colangelo.
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Nice to window shop but when reality sets in im limited to my sansui au-717 and some JBL speakers....
Pat Matheny had or maybe still have full Cello system !
OMG wow
Did you cover the turntable? Mark Levinson?
Lux PD300 if memory serves.
PS With a bit of light DIY (suspension) these vacuum platter Lux models would make an LP12 look silly, sound and esp for engineering.
I have those my Health 🤪
How much is this system worth now?
50k in Europe I guess.
This system puts a lot of stuff from today to shame.
All that sound and we've got a Sonos connect as a digital streaming source...oy vey...slaps head. 🤔 🧐
399,00 for 1 dat tape. Wow.... I have like 50 of them. With every sony ES Dat player they built.
Well, someone out there took a huge hit on depreciation. What is the asking price?
Sale pending actually, and over time it will probable appreciate even more. There are only around 112 pairs of these speakers.
100$
I guess they never sold enough to stay in business
Ok ma non ho sentino nulla, a che serve se non ho sentito nulla .-(
Yeah dude talk is talk but play some music on that monster!
Worst thing is that they get unrepairable...the P II amps are pretty easy but the Suite has unobtainium parts.
I REALLY don't care about the difference in sound quality! No Demonstration??? Criminal! :(
Just say NO!
400k stereo to play 30 dollar records.....
This happens When you got too much money and don't know what to do with it.......
wish I had that problem.