Gear Lust: When Dr Seuss Strikes
Vivid Audio Giya ... Horton hears a Who ... or just some fantastic sounding speakers? We both are suckers for unusual design, and organic shapes. As we continue our tortuous path towards new speakers, this desire keeps cropping up again and again. We find in recent years, while manufacturing improvements have allowed more curving shapes, most speaker designs are still quite conservative, sometimes even a bit phallic - and it does not have to be so! In fact, we think audio manufacturers have become less adventurous as volumes sank and prices rose - making solid looking speakers, but perhaps a shade or two more boring looking than they would have to be... but of course, not all of them! Shahinian Acoustics founded in the 1970s' - still made today, but a different more adventurous approach to sound dispersion than a regular box - using the walls and ceiling to recreate the feel of a concert hall - the midrange and tweeters are all angled towards the ceiling!...