Rockport Lyra

Wow, they are following Goldmund, Krell, Magico and YG footseps with aluminium enclosure.
 
Wow 150K! I guess I won't be putting my poor little Cygnus up for sale any time soon towards an upgrade!
Actually Mike, Andy used aluminum for the front baffle in both the (ahem, my :)) Cygnus as well as the Atria, but you are right, the Lyra is the first Aluminum Enclosure from Rockport, albeit in a constrained layer construction with an inner and outer aluminum shell with the middle layer filled with an epoxy granite co-polymer, so no ring Joe :P. The construction is called DAMSTIF. I think this construction is unique thus far in the high end. I can hardly wait to hear them! I've had my Cygnus for less than a week and I'm already pining for another beau.

Kerry
 
Smart Money says that the Lyra will be there, but Rockport has not yet taken a room. Perhaps Andy will be exhibiting with Doshi electronics.
 
metaphacts said:
To quote a Scandanavian friend "You have been marketed."

Listening to my circa 1977 Braun Output Cs with cast aluminum enclosures on a Mac 275 on my office system.

What's old is new again.
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These?

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https://youtu.be/sU7rugLhgyI

Seriously?

From the Magico website: "MAGICO has pioneered the use of aluminum in loudspeakers design. We built our first aluminum enclosure back in 1994 and have never looked back. Extremely stiff yet easy to damp, a properly designed aluminum enclosure is the ideal platform for high-performance loudspeakers. So inert, the enclosures have no discernible coloration of their own-allowing the drivers to operate with the utmost clarity and dynamics. Though costly to implement, the use of aluminum in our enclosures plays a vital role in our design philosophy."

Me thinks there's a difference between:

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And

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Hi Bill !!!

Nice to see you here again.




metaphacts said:
To quote a Scandanavian friend "You have been marketed."

Listening to my circa 1977 Braun Output Cs with cast aluminum enclosures on a Mac 275 on my office system.

What's old is new again.
Click to expand...
 
Mike said:
These?

71600b01cf25bc3ffb7b16608ec1c531.jpg


7a67a9836947d5165700ce85b7b3955d.jpg


https://youtu.be/sU7rugLhgyI

Seriously?

From the Magico website: "MAGICO has pioneered the use of aluminum in loudspeakers design. We built our first aluminum enclosure back in 1994 and have never looked back. Extremely stiff yet easy to damp, a properly designed aluminum enclosure is the ideal platform for high-performance loudspeakers. So inert, the enclosures have no discernible coloration of their own-allowing the drivers to operate with the utmost clarity and dynamics. Though costly to implement, the use of aluminum in our enclosures plays a vital role in our design philosophy."

Me thinks there's a difference between:

7a67a9836947d5165700ce85b7b3955d.jpg


And

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Actually quite seriously. 1994 is pretty late to the party.

Braun Output C was the original mid module in the original WAMM in the late 70's. The enclosure was cast just as the new Rockport is. They were hardly the first.

Aluminum is not new on any level. There were others back then as well.

As I said, what's old is new again.
 
Ha!

I was just trying to give Mike a little ribbing :audiophile:




Musicfirst said:
Wow 150K! I guess I won't be putting my poor little Cygnus up for sale any time soon towards an upgrade!
Actually Mike, Andy used aluminum for the front baffle in both the (ahem, my :)) Cygnus as well as the Atria, but you are right, the Lyra is the first Aluminum Enclosure from Rockport, albeit in a constrained layer construction with an inner and outer aluminum shell with the middle layer filled with an epoxy granite co-polymer, so no ring Joe :P. The construction is called DAMSTIF. I think this construction is unique thus far in the high end. I can hardly wait to hear them! I've had my Cygnus for less than a week and I'm already pining for another beau.

Kerry
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metaphacts said:
To quote a Scandanavian friend "You have been marketed."

Listening to my circa 1977 Braun Output Cs with cast aluminum enclosures on a Mac 275 on my office system.

What's old is new again.
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Wow, didn't know that those Brauns had the aluminium enclosure. Do you know what is the exact model name ? I would buy a pair myself, just for fun.

I thought it was Goldmund, in the early 80s, who pioneered the use of aluminium in a speaker design in their Apologue model.

goldmund_apologue.jpg
 
Elberoth said:
Wow, didn't know that those Brauns had the aluminium enclosure. Do you know what is the exact model name ? I would buy a pair myself, just for fun.

I thought it was Goldmund, in the early 80s, who pioneered the use of aluminium in a speaker design in their Apologue model.

goldmund_apologue.jpg
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The original Apoogues, launched in 1988 at the Hotel Nikko in Chicago, was not aluminum. Goldmund enclosures became aluminum a little later.

In the US the speaker was called Braun Output C. There was a version with a mounting bracket as well.
 
I think its worth repeating that the Lyra, to the best of my knowledge is the first aluminum - polymer layered composite enclosure, this is another method to achieve a tremendous reduction in the natural tendency of aluminum to 'ring out', the other being the heroic internal bracing employed by Magico. Which method is 'more' Heroic is up to you.
 
metaphacts said:
The original Apoogues, launched in 1988 at the Hotel Nikko in Chicago, was not aluminum. Goldmund enclosures became aluminum a little later.

In the US the speaker was called Braun Output C. There was a version with a mounting bracket as well.
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Thanks for the info.

I believe the full name of the Braun speaker is Output Compact:

http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/braun_output_compact.html

The one with the mounting bracket is C8 or L100.

http://www.hifido.co.jp/KW/G0201/J/200-50/C13-72441-76100-00/
 
Elberoth said:
Thanks for the info.

I believe the full name of the Braun speaker is Output Compact:

http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/braun_output_compact.html

The one with the mounting bracket is C8 or L100.

http://www.hifido.co.jp/KW/G0201/J/200-50/C13-72441-76100-00/
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I owned both, including a couple of pairs mounted on the back deck of BMWs (2002, 320i, 528i) in the 70s/early 80s. At the same time, ADS was building active car speakers with Braun drivers - the 2001 and 2002. Had both of those as well - mounted in a 66 Mustang convertible.
 
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