One Speaker Costs $1 Million Bucks
If you feel the urge to dump a million bucks into one spwaker, this may be your ticket.
Seriously, anyone spending a million bucks on a single speaker is just downright crazy... at least on a home consumer standpoint. Still, Transmission Audio's Ultimate speaker seems more suited for industry situations such as concert halls and movie theaters. But then again, consumers who own mansions the size of Texas should have no problem dumping two million bucks on a pair of speakers stretching almost 37 feet wide and weighing just over four tons.
Although Transmission Audio is currently updating its website, Ultimate AV is reporting that one Ultimate speaker consists of six separate, open-baffle dipole panels standing seven feet tall (that's twice as tall as Jane and Marcus combined). The one-channel speaker places the low frequencies on one side and the high frequencies mounted on the other; throw in a second speaker, and the lows would sit in the center and the highs on the outside. As a set, the speakers consist of two super-high frequency panels, four high frequency/midrange panels, two woofer panels, and four subwoofer panels.
According to the site, one Ultimate speaker features a woofer panel housing 24 8-inch cones, and two subwoofer panels each holding 10 15-inch cones. As for the high end, the super-high panel consists of 13 feet of 1-inch wide ribbon, 105 feet of 2-inch wide ribbon for the high range panel, and 105 feet of 2-inch wide ribbon for the midrange panel. The Ultimate also comes with its own power amplifiers, with an output of 31,000 watts.
Could this be considered overkill?
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As a sound designer, I'm leery. As a regular Joe, I scoff.
But hey, build it and they will come.
i seez a typo
"one spwaker"
rofl spellcheck.
What a pointless article...
This is just what the Mayor will order for his town or city when he/she wants to give a party for the whole town. However, in the era of corporate jets raising eyebrows, the public will not want to shell out that kind of $,$$$,$$$ for 'speakers'.
give up the PA and you have "The Penultimate", a value-oriented SKU.
"Could this be considered overkill?"
what? I can't hear you....
"spawker" in headline, should be speaker...
QA, anyone?
Imagine the feedback on this badboy
Speakers so loud they blows women's clothes off.
Wow those are some tiny people. I guess you can have them live inside of a filing cabinet or spare full tower case when they aren't writing articles.
Was this made in Texas? That is ridiculous haha
i bet your the outcast huh?
well, their articles are no better in grammar, in your defense
So this isn't one speaker then. It's a box with multiple speakers and a crossover. This really isn't anything special except the size of the box and the price.
Check it out, my man! Thirty feet of thigh-slapping, blood-pumping nuclear brain damage!
- Ruthless People
LOL!, yea spwaker.., thats a keeper.
kwwwp spwaking that way and your face will frwwrze that way
These guys might just have hit on a trick! If Corporate Jets are a no-no then just buy your execs a stereo each. Still cheaper than the plane, they get to show off to their friends and nobody but the neighbours will ever know
Yea, W is PREEEETTY close to E. Douchebags -
I stopped reading at "spwaker"
From now on I will stop reading an article if I run across blatantly misspelled words and poor grammar.
I'll happily dump a million on a "spwaker" once i find out what it is.
Lmao! that's hilarious. Jane is gonna fly from Scotland to Kevin's house and throw a brick through the window now
Lmao! that's hilarious. Jane is gonna fly from Scotland to Kevin's house and throw a brick through the window now
you know where jane lives?
thats a little creepy...
That is crazy,
my brands of preference are McIntosh and Focal (formerly JMLabs)
http://www.audioholics.com/news/tr [...] ker-system
http://www.enjoythemusic.com/super [...] grande.htm
Big theaters should also have about 3000Watts on sound.
Does the electricity bill come included in the price?
thats ridiculous, but those stuff have their market.
ps. if its possible to build, why not? thats good progress for the audio world.
Hmm..if I'm spending that kind of money, I'd get the Genesis 1.2's that are about an eighth the cost and better sounding....
There is no such thing as overkill. EVER!!
ok, maybe this is. I mean the amp would have to be a monster.
Wow those are some tiny people. I guess you can have them live inside of a filing cabinet or spare full tower case when they aren't writing articles.
7 feet each idget fools. It's implied. anyone commenting on this should learn how to read.
picture the set.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-9717107-1.html
dumbasses.
as far as the speaker itself goes, it'd be easier to hire an audio guy and a carpenter to buy all the crap retail and put it together.
what kind of amplifier(s) do u need 2 power this monstrosity?
But will they work with Crysis?