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YG Acoustics Voyager speakers are meant for a few

The long list of luxury speakers continues to mount with the entry of YG Acoustics Voyager speakers. But wait, you can?t lay your hands on these cast aluminum speakets until and unless you are a celebrated personality in the entertainment industry, the reason being the multitude of trade-secrets and the next-generation technologies employed in the Voyager as claimed by the company. What technology they are talking about? Anyway, the Voyager speakers tout YG Acoustics specialty that accounts for an astonishing soundstage, which is often associated only with a single-driver loudspeakers. The YG Acoustics Voyager speakers will set you back (oh sorry, not you but the music and film “industry leaders”) a whopping $100,000.

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The $200K Alexandria loudspeakers don’t even look like speakers

Wilson Audio has earned itself a name as one of the top luxury speakers? manufacturers. The new Wilson Audio Alexandria Loudspeakers do deserve a place in the list of top 10 luxury speakers with its whopping price tag of $200,000 and an inimitable make. The uncanny looks of the loudspeakers somehow resembles the leg of a Transformer. The loudspeaker uses upper frequency driver modules that adjust linearly to optimize time alignment while each of the modules rotate on its polar axis to pull off optimal driver dispersion for multiple listening positions. With the manufacturers popping out luxury speakers like rabbit popping out bunnies, I think I will have to make another list of top 10 luxury speakers very soon.

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Kohler SoundTile Speakers for Musical Shower

Kohler knows your bathroom instincts very well, so after range of showerheads and luxurious bathroom lavatory, the manufacturer has now come up with Kohler SoundTile Speakers to satiate your bathroom music needs. The low-profile SoundTile speaker allows you to enjoy your favorite music or internet radio stations through your DTV II interface. And, the vibrant brushed nickel looks would go perfectly with your Water Tiles.

Leather iPod Case Doubles As Kickstand

By David Ponce

In an interesting bit of design ingenuity, the Brenthaven iPod flip case protects everyone’s favorite digital music player from the elements, while at the same time doubling as a kickstand. The suede-lined case made of Napa leather features a specially sized slot on the back, into which you insert your player so it stands upright. You’re then free to watch your videos comfortably, without having to carry around a separate stand for it, or trying to balance the player between paperweights.

Best of all, it’s only $25.

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Goldmund’s $300,000 Turntable is World’s Most Expensive Turntable

You must be a die-hard music enthusiast and of course immensely wealthy to buy million dollar speakers or $300,000 turntable! The high-end audio is getting more and more expensive. We have recently told you about the Top-10 luxurious speakers and now its back to age-old turntables but not like you knew, for even the turntables are getting pricier with $19,000 ClearAudio Master Reference Turntable or the latest $19,000 TEAC?s VPI HR-X1 turntable, but the most expensive, we knew was this $150,000, quarter-ton turntable ?Transrotor Artus? from the German company Transrotor. But, GadgetLab has an update and this time it?s undeniably the most expensive one from Goldmund?s titled “The Reference II,” that carries a price tag of $300,000. A very limited series of 25 Reference II turntables, it features a degree of refinement and a number of new features never seen before.

The turntable features a 20kg platter machined to a hundreth of a millimeter, a motor vibration-shielded by 15kg of brass, and teflon-insulated signal-carring electronics. It is also packed with loads of features including cog-free motor with lowest electrical and mechanical noise, liquid-nitrogen-rectified belt, touch controls integrated in the tabletop specially designed new Goldmund T8 straight-line tone arm with total weight of 7 kg to name a few.

Limited editions of 25 units are sold on subscription with a maximum production of 5 units per year.

Japanese Robot Gets Giggy With iPod Music

A new Japanese robot combines iPod with the joy of robots by getting giggy and dancing in sync with songs streamed from an iPod.

According to Wired, the robot uses a series of algorithms to calculate movements in response to music, which the company says could be the basis for a new breed of semi-intelligent, semi-autonomous virtual pets.

I am just getting over the iFish, iDog and iCat series, which are small little interactive speaker critter toys that hook up to your iPod or MP3 player and swish their tails with glee. Not sure I’m ready for iPod robotics.

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Top 10 luxury speakers everyone can’t afford

I have always loved to own those gorgeous Grand Enigma speakers but I think I need to earn some more bucks to make that possible and I doubt those ?small bucks? might not take whole of my life…Lolz. We’ve been playing a little game lately to see how high speaker prices would go. Hats off to those crazy uber-rich audiophiles out there who don?t even think once to spend all their hard-earned money on a single set of speakers! Luxury speakers are not just a means of listening to music but a style statement too. Come, check out some of the most innovatively designed, glossy, alluring, and yes, heftily-priced speakers.

10. The Ivy Reference

Manufacturer: Eggleston Works

Price: US $100,000

The Ivy speakers are an upshot of tremendous research at Eggleston Works. The 358kg speakers are made specifically to generate almost unlimited dynamics and SPL’s through the most neutral and transparent technique feasible. The speakers come equipped with nine 12-inch woofers loaded in three parallel chambers and there are a total of 23 drivers per channel (aka “an Andra on steroids”). Black Italian granite has been used in the making and the base of the speakers feature specially designed castors.

9. KEF?s Ross Lovegrove-designed MUON speakers

Manufacturer: KEF

Price: US $130,000

Another treat for the uber-rich audiophiles! The MUON has been carved from super-formed aluminum and malleable sheets of heated aluminum that bless it with an inimitable shape. The 7-feet tall beautifully crafted four-way speaker system are technically quite sound with the powerful bass drivers, upper mid-range and treble. They have managed to double the available volume proficiently by adsorbing air molecules by activated carbon, thanks to the Acoustic Compliance Enhancement (ACE) technology. Hey, you know very well that such high quality, such a beautifully designed set of speakers won?t come cheap.

8. Cabesse La Sphere Speakers

Manufacturer: Cabesse

Price: US $150,000

If you think that the pictured above is some kind of colossal eyeball webcam, you are mistaken. It?s in actual the ?La Sphere?speaker from Cabesse that is designed to create unique ambiences for interior spaces and enhance acoustics of the spaces like theater rooms. The spherical corral is intended to help eliminate standing waves and create a more rounded sound. The four-way co-axial speaker claims to offer unrivalled technical and musical specifications in a compacter volume than all other ultimate systems. I am not sure whether this inimitable design really throws out good sound but the price tag would optimistically do full justice with the sound quality too.

7. Grand Exquisite

Manufacturer: Kharma

Price: US $220,000

Kharma is now a pioneer in luxury speakers with its Grand Enigma. Earlier, they had Grand Exquisite, which included two 30 mm and one 20 mm Kharma/Thiel diamond tweeters, two ceramic midrange-units and two Nomex-Kevlar subwoofer units within a gigantic multilayer wooden cabinet. To achieve the perfect acoustics, the top-notch Kharma technologies have been used along with the pure silver-gold wiring and materials like high pressure laminate and aluminum.

6. Ultimate

Manufacturer: Magico

Price: $229,000

The MAGICO Ultimate loudspeaker is no doubt progression in the state-of-the-art in music reproduction. The 5-way four horn speaker system comprises four Japanese ALE compression drivers and a 15″ Aura monster woofer. The engineering work of art for the Ultimate marks new standards in contemporary loudspeaker design. The nominal; independence for compression drivers is 8 ohms while its is 4 ohms for the woofer. The Ultimate speakers weigh approximately 800 lbs.

5. GAUDI MK II

Manufacturer: German Physik

Price: $250,000

Wow! So dazzling! They look to be something out of the gaming world. The Gaudi MK II speakers come with either a Titanium DDD driver or a Carbon DDD driver. The performance delivered by the speakers compensate quite well for that hefty price tag. Each breakfront features company?s own four DDD drivers complemented by eight 6-inch metal cones for the mid bass and four 12-inch honeycomb flat cone drivers for sub woofers. The most notable features of the Gaudi is the inclusion of DDD driver, which offers true listening experience no matter where you are seated in the room. The Gaudi can also be ordered in a range of hand matched, delicately figured hardwood veneers, hand finished to a high gloss.

4. Epilogue Full System

Manufacturer: Goldmund

Price: $268,000

Pretty interesting! Goldmund claims that the modularity will allow the users to upgrade the Epilogue up to the latest state of the art without the usually costly process of trading-in the precedent version. The Epilogue Full System touts a metallic enclosure that allows unparalleled rigidity to the audio device. Seals in neoprene between all adjacent parts account for the air tightness without aging degradation. The Epilogue 3, which is the Sub-Bass unit of the Epilogue system, features a built-in amplifier of the Mimesis range with a maximum of 650 watts power. The tremendous speed of the Epilogue woofers make for the much tighter, airy sound to grave frequencies, even at intense levels.

3. Sphaeron Excalibur

Manufacturer: Acapella Audio Arts

Price: $325,000

ACAPELLA products are unique combinations of design, function and engineering. The ACAPELLA Sphaeron Excalibur speakers are the speakers with horns. Made of the established Sphaeron, the Exacalibur fits into a room boasting a minimum size of 40m². The system comes with two pillars, with each featuring four huge 15 inches woofers. The music thrown out will be three-dimensional so you will fell like listening to some orchestra. These speakers have the capability to handle 1000 watts power at 10 ms with no distortion. The company hand crafts all the parts of its products.

2. Infinite Grande

Manufacturer: Wisdom Audio

Price: US $600,000

They are gigantic. The made-for-superrich Infinite Wisdom Grande boasts a mounded three section planar-magnetic arrays over 13 feet tall, low frequency assemblies over 8 feet tall and a total weight of almost two tons. Based on company?s transducer technology and innovative design values, the monumental sports high sound pressure levels in excess of 120 dB. The exceptional number of transducers delivers high-quality sound and minimizes all sorts of transient distortion. The system comes with twelve 12-inch, underhung 3-inch voice coil low frequency regenerators per channel. The Infinite Wisdom Grande is perfect for those uber-rich audiophiles who have a plenty of space that doesn?t suit the lesser systems. No doubt, the company?s flagship model flouts categorization.

1. Grand Enigma

Manufacturer: Kharma

Price: US $1 million

Now, what about a pair of speakers for a whopping one million dollars? Sounds crazy! Come; meet Grand Enigma that tops the long list of the world?s most expensive speakers. The luxury speakers have been designed by Netherlands-based Kharma in a huge cellar in Belgium. I don?t think that the features even matter at such a stocky price. I wish I had lots and pots of money to own this cool $1 million set of speakers.

NOTE: Although proper care has been taken while mentioning the price of all the products but you are requested to contact the particular company for the packages.

Thanks: HigherFi

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