Stand Loudspeaker Reviews

Kids, stay in school, pay attention and work as hard as you can, always towards a goal of a solid career. Use the money to enjoy hobbies that entertain and fulfill you. Which means you can buy beautiful speakers like these without batting an eyelid.
I on the other hand never listened to that advice so I get to look at pictures of them.

And remember, try your speakers in different positions to get the best sound out of them.

Thanks for that glimpse into their world.

I love the look, too.

I could see this as an 'exit level' speaker to cap off one's 'career' as an audiophile.

Lovely to listen to, lovely to behold, relatively easy to drive. Pair it with a great integrated amp (Leben, Luxman, etc...) and donzo!!!

These are REALLY pretty.

The frequency response looks a lot better than I expected.

I am sadly but definitely in the small speaker-small sound clique.

I would take used big ass JBL's, Altecs, Klispch, et al over small speakers. Probably even in a small room as I need John/Paul, Joe, Jimi, Jim, Mick, and Roger to tell to me loudly.

If I HAD to live in small speaker ville I would definitely check them out. They are frigging GORGEOUS!!!!

...loved the look of these speakers. She never says that. She would probably like the sound of the in room response too. :)

Roughly $20K. I ain't losing sleep, though.

Although I am generally perplexed with the fascination that many audiophiles have with vintage design equipment, I have to admit that some of the aesthetics are really amazing. If you haven't checked the Oswalds Mill Audio's site, go look at the Ironic speaker!

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In addition, the nearfield responses of the woofer and ports roll off faster than the expected 12dB/ octave.

I thought ported speakers typically had a 24 db/octave roll off?

First of all, this:
"Conicals don't behave or sound like any other horns, they work differently. They have no constriction at the throat like curved-wall horns, which produce that honky, nasal coloration. They have a continuous expansion of the flare. Curved-horn walls change the wavefront as they expand. Conicals don't, so, you get a perfect spherical or hemicylindrical wavefront and constant directivity. So ... you don't have beaming."

...isn't entirely correct.
Not all curved horns are constricted at the throat, this even applies to Western-Electric's axisymmetrical wooden horn.
In an axisymmetric conical horn the wave-front is only purely spherical in the (hypothetical) 1P case.
The wavefront shape of conical horns also depends on the (compression) driver, more specifically the type of diaphragm and phase plug.
The transition from driver exit to horn throat is equally important.

The response irregularities in the top octave resemble break up resonances, but I wouldn't be surprised if the additional phase plug is also partly to blame.

That said, after a short initial listening session, my impression of the Deville is mostly positive.