Ultimate speakers? Insane price.
Posted in This Just In... on August 7th, 2009 by gkrakowIt had to happen. With prices of everything rising to obscene levels there had to be someone who would try to market a set of loudspeakers for a million dollars.
Swedish company Transmission Audio went one better. Actually, one million better. They have just announced their new, top-of-the-line home speaker system – and it retails for $2,000,000 U.S.!
Transmission Audio’s Extreme Performance Series “Ultimate” speaker system is a monster. It’s 37-feet long, 7-feet high and weighs more than 8,000 pounds. And if that doesn’t scare you away here are some more facts you need to know:
The system contains four separate dipole subwoofers, (seen in the middle), made from a total of forty, 15″ woofers…
followed by one dipole panel per channel, each containing twenty-four, 8″ units..
followed by 2 full mid-frequency ribbon dipoles per channel…
plus one high-frequency panel per channel, containing a total of 68 meters (223 feet) of true ribbon tweeters.
Ultimate has a sensitivity of more than 100dB/1w/1meter and can continously handle 15,500 watts with +3dB headroom.
A total of 31,000 watts will provide you with 146dB SPL! (Think in terms of what it would sound like if you sat inside the engine of a Boeing 777 as it takes off – then think LOUDER).
The system comes complete with its own preamp and monoblock power amplifiers to match.
A few other things you should know, if you’re interested, you’ll have to do some footwork to actually hear this set-up. Ultimates are only sold in Great Britain, Hong Kong and, of course, Sweden.
But, this pricing scheme has gotten them a lot of publicity.
Transmission Audio’s Website is either very, very busy or they’re in the process of updating the information.