MY LATEST SPEAKER ! MADE FROM ANCIENT MUD !!

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Please SUBSCRIBE if you like this content 🙏 !! I'll keep making more !!

[@brentcollins9727]

I’ve had the pleasure of listening to some $75,000 Acora granite speakers and I was absolutely blown away. Probably the best I’ve ever heard. Perhaps these are similar.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Yes, I really like Vals speakers... ;-) stone makes a great cab !!

[@anthonygoodson8183]

Lol love that you gave it one last nock. Now that is a well designed speaker. Very thought over.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Thanks for watching !

[@tejkarangehlot4741]

Hi mikey now waiting for demo with some beautiful 🎵 🎶 🎵 🙏

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Very soon!

[@southernfriedawesomeness9464]

I probably would never spend that much, but I really appreciate them and like watching the demo ,very interesting.Thanks Mike !!

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Thanks for watching!

[@TheCharlesAtoz]

Beautiful speakers!! Thank you for bringing this gear to your Hifi Tribe Mike.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Glad you like them!

[@bubblehead5394]

Only 19K?? Wow! They are practically free. Beautiful speakers!

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Lol. In today's High End market, this is a true exotic at a real world price.. it's every bit of a $30K speaker..

[@privateuser7726]

They look great, Just like in the Flinstones ...Yabba Dabba Doo!

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Totally !!

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

​@@chrisrichards2827call me. Find my number at 11stereo.com

[@samuelsalins8309]

Sound as good as it looks. 👌

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

It does!

[@marcbegine]

Great speaker, do the knock test! Explains everything!😎

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Lol. Just how dead the cabinet is, telling us there are no cabinet resonances to be concerned with.

[@tallpaull9367]

Those look cool ! I have a set of speakers with cabinets that are made of cast volcanic ash and resin

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Killer !

[@MrBonger88]

Who are they made by? I’d love to see them

[@dirtsapient9638]

We wanna see those speakers

[@andredevries4987]

Hi mike. That are beautiful speakers. Can,t wait to hear the sound test. Gr André de vries.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

You and me both!

[@artyfhartie2269]

My friend Fred Flintstone who lives in Bedrock bought a pair recently. He tells me it rocks.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

He is co rrect !!

[@artyfhartie2269]

@@OCDHIFiGuy Yabadadadoo!

[@dragocelander6671]

Great intro to what appears as a beautiful floor standing speaker. $19k-$20 is a fair price for these puppies. And as you point out, this is the first high-end speaker to get bi-wiring done right with beefy jumper cables to terminals that are labeled. As I said before, what a concept. Shipping costs must be expensive, tho.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Shipping included. Beat that !

[@dragocelander6671]

@@chrisrichards2827 I understand that. I’ve bi-wired my Dunlavy SC-IVa’s with the appropriate speaker cabling. I’m speaking of the jumpers. Most jumpers are a cheap ass piece of metal, not the beefy jumper cables used here. And I am not aware of any manufacturer who properly labels the terminal binding posts. That’s my point.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

​@chrisrichards2827 it's not bi wired right now. Lol. Are you teaching me (a cable designer) about BiWiring ? Appreciate the effort..

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

​@@chrisrichards2827 send me some then. I'm NOT buying Monitor Audio. I'll send them back and pay for shipping.

[@dragocelander6671]

@@OCDHIFiGuy He’s addressing my comment, Mikey. I was a bit too abbreviated with my post about bi-wiring done right.

[@vinoheart]

WOW

[@TEdward-pu6py]

Mundorf AMT...Nice! One of the best...

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Indeed it is!

[@lbrizzle18]

I have recently seen a few vids on youtube featuring this brand, but maybe a couple levels above, and they sounded amazing with Nat Audio. They do look good.

[@firebladeclements]

The breakin time from ancient mud till now must be a record, eh Mikey! Definitely heavy content. 😅

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

You know it!

[@StGCfiLife]

I agree, its a great speaker.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Truly

[@scottbennett3119]

That is beautiful!

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Isn't it nice ?? ;-)

[@moshezuhmih]

Very interesting

[@moshezuhmih]

Can you add link to the brand website?

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

I think so too!

[@borisbobowski628]

Try Fink Team, they are even more impressive and completly custom made by one of the Masters himself.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Thanks. I wanted natural stone at a better price than Fink Team.

[@jharloe]

It shows perfectly

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

OK. 👍 great. Thanks !

[@twofromthetrunk9932]

Very beautiful. Just a tad out of my league. :).

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

What's your budget level ? I'll suggest something.

[@jazzlouise]

Mike, I hope you go into some specifics on the speakers and components in the crossover.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

All made in Germany. Mundorf AMT and crossover parts. Other drivers are German as well..

[@gil3green]

Very nice looking, how do they attach them together?

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

I'll let you know.

[@thobekanikhoza4038]

These are sick

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Right ?

[@Jack96993]

If i remember correctly slate is a sedimentary rock and is porous in nature, so should be excellent in reducing or eliminating unwanted sound waves from the cabnet How much do they weight?

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

190 Lb.

[@Jack96993]

@@OCDHIFiGuy Holy Crap!

[@Suntadyis]

Viola Labs Cadence is out of reach. Do you have any recommendations that goes well with the Playback Designs you got there for less?

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Yes, coming up. Jeff Rowland 555. I'll have the first batch. Less than half the Cadence price.

[@Suntadyis]

@@OCDHIFiGuy there we go! Something to look forward to. Will sure to watch it when it's out. Thanks Mikey! Cheers 🍻

[@tomdevuono3319]

The shear velocity of shale rock is much slower than aluminum and less than that of granite. I would surmise slate would offer the preferred sound. There will be a variation in natural slate as there is in woods of the same type. It would be preferred that the shale should be mined from the same area and depth to maintain density as it relates to shear velocity. That would make for a matched pair.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Of course they are from the same area.. otherwise they would sound different !

[@77MovieFan]

Actually the SN/SL 770.1 were the speakers I saw in an customer-homevisit video of my homecinema dealer who was all in for stereo AND homecinema. That video back then did fascinate me with all the stereo gear like pre/amp, phonoamp, Turntable ... and combining all that with the homecinema chain. It turned on the FLAME for me Saw Fischer & Fischer at HighEnd 2022 and another smaller show, both were really not setup well, nothing really done in the room, no good presentation, no good music, simply turned me totally off even they for sure would have been a good choise for what I searched for. Also the slate look must fit into the room, me having a stonewall this was not my thing, but color is almost like my PSaudio and they wouldn´t have reflected that much as mine. Not sure the price of the 770.1 but they would have been my choise, I guess they would have been more expensive as the FR30

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Yeah, proper break in and component matching is very important. ;-) Ive also heard some great product sound horrible at shows or in the wrong setup...

[@harryburnett7086]

How do they measure and spectral decay

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

I honestly don't care. They SOUND phenomenal... you remember listening, don't you ?

[@RUfromthe40s]

in the 70´s in germany ,having a entire neighborhood of german familys inside my town because we had a nato airforcefield at4km´s from my city some were crazy with hi-fi and electronic engeniers that repaired the electronic driving systems on militar jet fighter planes ,the word was bricolage ,they made in wood the most strange shape´s with parts inside that drived the frequencies inside the speakers ,they only had to buy the woofers ,tweeters etc. ,some had a speaker for each frequency ,measured in a wooden box made of the best wood ,it sounded amazing ,some built their own amplifiers with a clean and perfect sound and none that bought integrated amplifiers would kept them original they were all changed inside and bad sound i never heard from those guy´s some never returned to gemany and stayed in interior south of Portugal or hell because of the heat ,it´s sunny all year around ,beaches that no one would go to them so it would be filled with foreigners from several country´s of Europe this all people in their 20´s and naked , i never had seen so much beautifull women in a beach, or even younger , that´s when i bought entire systems very cheap because when some returned to germany would make a sale to sell all they had at home to avoid carrying all to germany again also some cars ,most of them mercedes also with systems aplyed to the engines that made them superfast compared to a factory car ,my first car was a mercedes 280S from 68/9 this with already a driving permit it cost me nothing it was ofered by a german friend ,i had at the time 4 cars before i could take the driver permit for cars and bikes(also had several)i´m talking about the 70´s and late 60´s, so if it comes from germany ,made of mud or any other strange material it sounds perfect , i bought entire systems with high-quality sound from brands like Blaupunkt, schneider, philips , grundig, Normende(this brand was all far ahead compared to other brands, i even had a tv coulor with remote by radio frequencies and wireless heaphones without any weight using the system now used on remotes)also from Telefunken and BASF ,etc.this with beautifull cassette decks that recorded as good as high-end models from japanese brands, i even bought a VW beetle with engine and interior taken from a porshe 912 from 1970 ,it was amzing good and confortable also fast ,but with care on the turns, geman guys know or use to know what they did ,this because everything was better after they changed them, there are hi-fi brands with almost no components because when released all are bought and they have to make more using only their hands and some machines ,if in the 70´s they were already far ahead in sound quality ,guess now

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Great story !!

[@RUfromthe40s]

@@OCDHIFiGuy thank you

[@hiresaudiocosta873]

Cool 😎. I like the comparison where you stood next to the speaker for size reference. Just one question. Are you 4’11” or 6’3”?

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Lol. Great question. I'm 5'8"

[@jonathandavis9507]

Dayum 🪨

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Werd

[@johnshaw359]

Obviously built for Rock music.

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Lol. Yes !! You win !!

[@Spaceuniversestars]

안녕하세요 Hi Mikey!!👋😜🍀

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Hi, who is it ? I can't see !!

[@Spaceuniversestars]

Just a subscriber who likes your videos 🇦🇺🇰🇷😝

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

@@Spaceuniversestars Gamsahamnida !!!

[@labalo5]

The price isn’t bad considering an amt, slate and phase plug mid. Sh’t mikey you giving me wood! 😅

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Doop !!

[@labalo5]

@@chrisrichards2827 from my perspective it’s not a matter of strength and longevity of the cone, but what it can do on sonic performance and purity by smoothing out peaks or other anomalies when necessary. Obviously in this application, there are other midbass drivers. That said, that midrange phase plug driver is crossed over to a relatively stressed-free zone, especially coupled with AMT tweeter will also play a little lower than dome tweeters. Of course different philosophies on speakers and sonic goals for every speaker with addition to a signature sound. IMO the ones who chose phase plug midranges in their designs have higher sonic palates.

[@labalo5]

@@chrisrichards2827 disagreements are healthy. Thought you were going yo throw in some end all be all measurements crap. But I thought we were talking phase plug drivers. Anyway…you know what they say about arguing on the inter webs….!

[@davidozburn1155]

The least expensive that I have found was from Australia at 22000.00.

[@akhtarizod5802]

Cabinet should be fully inert, should have no sound of its own, sound characteristics of speaker 100% depends on drivers ,crossover parts and its design!

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

There it is !

[@pizzaearthpancakesandother2549]

These speakers are not made from old mud, they are made from recycled pool tables, you mudder flockers

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

Lol.

[@brunorivademar5356]

Talk about a dead cabinet holy crap

[@OCDHIFiGuy]

For sure... nothing.