Gorgeous luxury loudspeakers

I have no idea how these speakers sound, but they are quite beautiful. And also quite expensive. They are the Davone Ray loudspeakers, available in a lovely walnut finish. $6000/pair. Davone Ray loudspeakers (Thanks, David "Mog" Hyman!)

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They look like the styling in the movie Beetlejuice.
JohnCJ

For those who don’t know their mid-century interior design (shame on you), this is the Eames Chair:

http://www.designlessbetter.com/blogless/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/eameslounch.jpg

This is one of the sexiest chairs ever made. I will own one someday so I have a place to sip my Campari and soda.
- dculberson
  
  Now, see, I understood which chair you meant by the context (the speakers do pay homage to the bent plywood Eames chair for sure!) but when I hear “Eames Chair,” this is the one I think of:
  
  http://www.officedesigns.com/images/main/eames-alum-lounge.jpg
  
  and I do have one, rescued from the trash unbelievably enough, just needs one weld redone which I will get around to one of these days. A friend found it for me after I paid an unreasonable amount for the roll-around office chair version.
thebelgianpanda

I have listened to some quite high end systems in my day, systems that cost as much as a house. And if you are in the right room with the correct setup, it really is magical. But without a dedicated room much of the wonderful nuance is lost, and the equipment really becomes moot. Great acoustics trump most equipment any day of the week.
knyghtryda

If they sound good $6k is pretty reasonable for a pair of high end speakers. These however look a bit small to be able to match the sound of $6k worth of full tower speakers…
- KremlinLaptop
  
  And yet the majority of consumers would probably be far better off buying a high-end set of headphones for a fraction of that price to get an equal — if not better — experience.
  
  Fact is most people who do own tens upon tens of thousands worth of hi-fi stuff do not have them set up right in their house, do not have the right sort of room for them, etc, etc and would have been far better served by getting some good quality cans.
S2

Meh. The stands put the driver centerlines at about 23″ above floor/shelf; not exactly an ideal listening height. Doesn’t look like the feet can accept points; they’re gonna vibrate (along with that elegant-but-wimpy curved main support. P’bly nice as a fashion statement/display of wealth, but I’ll stick with my maggies.
- Anonymous
  
  LOL! As if Maggies DON’T vibrate? I’m always entertained by armchair engineers …
Antinous / Moderator

They need to have a smaller speaker that extends dramatically out of the middle.
JohnCJ

Am I the only one who thought “Eames Chair”?
- Anonymous
  
  LOL, You re not the only one, Thats what came to mind to minutes I saw this Herman Miller Furniture looking $6k beast. At $4k I will get One nice Etho Cube and Aeron Chair to go with ;)
- David Pescovitz
  
  Absolutely. Very much like the classic, magnificent Eames Lounge chair that I sat in yesterday. Sadly, can’t afford that either.
- Anonymous
  
  @JohnCJ: Totally get the Eames reference, & Plycraft, and all that mid-century and Scandinavian goodness!
TheVoBRX

For six grand, they better give me an aural orgasm the moment I turn them on. An aurgasm, if you will.
Nev

More signs of the coming Eamespunk movement

Good thing I wrote a manifesto for this some time back

http://nevolution.typepad.com/theories/2008/07/the-eamespunk-m.html
mao tse-tim

@JohnCJ #3 Nope, you weren’t. It was the first thing I thought when I saw them.
Anonymous

They resemble wastebaskets as might be found in executive offices.
Anonymous

$6k ain’t much to pay for high end gear these days, and none of it looks as sweet as these. If I had the scratch, I’d be all over these.

Or these: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13645_3-9859099-47.html

But those Magico’s are $30k and don’t look near as cool.
mrkns

They have a very 50′s sifi feel. they could have appeared on a tendril from one of the ships from “war of the worlds” or hid a martian invader.
Anonymous

I’m not sure if I want to tip my cigarette into them or sit on them more…
dave@daveryder.com

@TheVoBRX technically it would be an eargasm