Hits - thoughts on outstanding loudspeaker developments

The best songs of all time have not been written by one artist or band!

So how dare anyone say that their results are all good? Some is so bad it needs to be burned. Most is reasonable and only the tip of the iceberg is very good.

Why?

I guess it is the nature of everything. Especially in nature there is nothing like efficiency and creating new stuff is a very natural process. Even a brilliant designer like Philippe Starck has made very good things but even more no one talks about.

I think most of the best things, the Hits, have allready been made, and like in Chinese culture there is no shame in adapting them. Musicians of all times are stealing ideas and sometimes making it even better than the original, like Joe Cocker did. Some concepts are no longer available like the 4430, or very expensive like the O96. So let's make them our own.

In some cases, the peak of development has been reached. Partly, perhaps due to the big amount of time or sometimes even because of restrictions. The ancient Greeks call that Kairos. Speakers like the 555 from Western Electric or the 2235 from JBL have never been surpassed.

There is nothing better than experience to find these hits. But the finite nature of life prevents us from having all that experience by ourselves. So listen to the old and experienced guys in audio like Devon, Holger, Jonathan and all the audio enthusiasts who have been speaker building for decades to find the jewels of sound!

It is a pleasure for me and my company to work with these Coriphaea and to combine their experience with customer ideas to create excellent audio systems for your living room!