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Take me to your leader!
Is that a 3rd leg or is something dripping.................
It's the third leg, if you know what I'm saying...
Very cool item...thanks...good to see you again!
Hey, you too, rvance!
The 200 lb. slate TT with idler drive looks interesting, too.
struts, your avatar cuts an amazingly similar profile to this speaker (duh, I just noticed). Just need a horn mounted on your back!
For some reason, it reminds me of....
I think the design risk pays off. Nothing in the design seems superfluous to me and I love all the lines and angles, unconventional yet classic-looking at the same time. Most of the speakers that try to be a bit bold design-wise in the hi-fi market usually look like something that a Transformer robot shat out after eating buffalo wings... Not the case here. Looks touched by human thought and aesthetic grace rather than tech-geekery. Being so unconventional, the Minis are bound to polarize, but in my view: gorgeous looking speakers.
However I have a rear firing port that some listeners complain 'chuffs' audibly on occasions.
I agree, I had a positive kind of nostalgic reaction to the speaker.
There is a small touch of Rube Goldberg, too....which kind of makes it look passionate!
It also has an organic, modern Eames era (the most overused term on ebay) look, without being too self-consciously retro or derivative. Now I'm a design critic, too.
struts- your nicely feathered baffle seems to reduce all port diffraction artifacts to a minimum.
I find it faintly Mir
I think it does look pretty fun, but I can tell you it would be very unlikely to ever be in a home that has female companionship! It definitely would be great in a cool retro modern type of setting.
Happy birthday, 03/13!
Doug, happy birthday!
Well, my wife actually saw the Minis in person with me and they were the only speakers she went ga-ga over (she studied fashion and worked at Coach for a while). My wife's friend, too, went nuts over their design when she peered over his shoulder - she owns a high-end boutique store in Hoboken, NJ... I think women are way more progressive when it comes to design than us dudes.
btw, I went to the SoHo showroom and checked the Minis in person yesterday...