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How did a company go from building beautiful, graceful, elegant speakers to this fugly monstrosity?

Reportedly $465k. M1

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slowgeezr said:
Best sound, looks be damned?
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Who knows? Looks like the took the Tekton approach. 13 drivers.

I think the Giya series looks elegant and sounds great. These? [emoji2961]. A monstrosity. I don’t get it.


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I hear you. A very good friend of mine went from the Giya G2 to the G1Spirit and they are both graceful in appearance and beautiful in sound.
 
Just stumbled across this video that provides insight into the design; (text below is from the caption of the video)

"Laurence Dickie is a true hi-fi originator. While employed at Bowers & Wilkins in the 1980s to early 1990s, he invented the company’s patented Matrix-enclosure and tapered-tube technologies. He also designed the legendary Nautilus loudspeaker, which debuted in 1993 and is still produced by Bowers & Wilkins today.

In 2004, Laurence Dickie cofounded Vivid Audio with Philip Guttentag. Since then, the company has carried on producing innovative speaker designs unlike anything that the world has ever seen. Now, after 20 years, Dickie has designed a new flagship speaker, the Moya M1. As this video explains, the Moya M1 is a five-way design with eight woofers, which not only provide astonishing bass depth, but also an effortlessness to the sound that no speaker has been able to convey before. Watch this video to learn how Laurence Dickie arrived at this innovative driver arrangement."


 
I would never spend that much so they are simply a curiosity like all the other top of the heap/money grab speakers. I would like to hear them however.
 
I think they're cool looking, plus in person stuff usually looks better. That brown / red's gotta go though...
 
Mike said:
How did a company go from building beautiful, graceful, elegant speakers to this fugly monstrosity?

Reportedly $465k. M1


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My sentiment exactly.
 
This is a similar reaction to a new BMW design ….. the front end may be fugly, but the performance is exhilarating!!
 
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