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Do any of these interest you at all? (If you had the money)(Which I don't)

https://www.octaneseating.com/most-expensive-home-theater-speakers
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mapman
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They all interest me but all too big and bulky not to mention expensive. 
cd318
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I'm surprised to see so many plain ugly designs amongst that list. Almost as if stupid eye catching at any cost ergonomics was factored in as a key selling point. 

Do high-rolling audiophiles have such little sense of aesthetics? Or is ostentatiousness at-any-cost the main point here?

Amongst that oddball collection I'd only consider #32 Sonus Faber Fenice ($180,000) or maybe the pyramid shaped #19 FM Acoustics Inspiration
XS-I ($350,000). 

Or maybe I'd just buy some Tannoy DCs/ Linkwitz Orion's/ Harbeth M40s/ Devore 0-96s or any one of a dozen plausible
<$20k alternatives. 

And a new house to put them in.




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lalitk
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Off that list, none at all; most of them were just ugly! If I have the money, I would buy Alsyvox’s Botticelli or Avantgarde Trio XD in a heartbeat.

Thanks for sharing the list, I have a whole new appreciation for my existing speakers. 
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glennewdick
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Living Voice, Vox Olympian-Vox Elysian system should be in there. I believe its running around the $500k area depending on finishes. And its a Horn system. 
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mijostyn OP
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They are big and ugly for the most part and as Elizabeth noted they missed a few. bdp24 Those wonderful speakers are just not expensive enough which begs the question are any of these worth the money. The horn systems interest me a little in that I would like to hear them. But I would never buy any of them, not when I can get a pair of Sound Labs 845's for around $40K. I suppose I have become a died in the wool ESL guy maybe not so much because they sound better (which they do) but because after 30 years I know exactly what to do with them to get them to perform the way I like and it was not always smooth going. I guess I have had enough learning and care only about listening.
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