Ultimate speakers? Insane price.
It 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.