When it comes to luxury goods, what can you think of? Swiss clocks, Italian sports cars, or French top luggage? Strictly speaking, luxury goods represent the top design and craftsmanship in the entire industry. Its symbolic meaning is even greater than its actual meaning. It represents the owner's personal taste and quality of life. For people with affluent lives, they will or Buy more or less luxury goods with unique taste.
However, if top HiFi speakers are regarded as luxury goods, there may not be as many people who agree with them as those who like watches and luxury cars. But for people who are obsessed with audio equipment, sound is their greatest enjoyment in life. It can provide them with their favorite and most extreme sound, no matter how expensive it is, it is worth it. In the HiFi field, there are many products for us to choose from. Of course, HiFi audio is limited to a pair of speakers, and many parts including wires and amplifiers may be expensive.
Top 10 Most Expensive Speakers in History
When it comes to HiFi speakers, we may first think of well-known brands such as B&O, B&W, and Dynaudio. However, in Among the truly top-level HiFi speakers, these three brands are still not ranked. The most expensive HiFi speaker in the world, we may not remember its name, but its price is indeed staggering. For example, even if you win 5 million yuan in the lottery, you cannot afford such luxuries.
Next, let’s take a look at the most expensive HiFi speakers.
American MagicoUltimateII
The tenth place is the MagicoUltimateII super horn speaker from the United States, although the horn speaker is no longer It is a mainstream choice, but Magico still takes this horn speaker to the extreme. The reason why horn speakers have declined is because they require a large listening space, and users must have an extremely in-depth understanding of audio equipment and know how to operate it. Players who are most obsessed with audio equipment may like this product that looks a bit outdated.
Compared with most HiFi speakers, the design of this speaker is relatively complex, but this shows that the designer strives for excellence and does not compromise on any detail, so the Magico Ultimate II super horn speaker is also a milestone. A super heavyweight work.
Reference price: US$229,000
German ADAMAudioOSS
Top In the HiFi field, in addition to American products, Germany is also good at manufacturing audiophile speakers. ADAMAudio is a German Hi-End audio brand that has not been in the Chinese market for a long time but is quite famous. In China, ADAM is affectionately called "Adam" by enthusiasts. In its initial development, ADAM mainly produced top-level professional monitor speakers, and later gradually expanded into the Hi-End audio field.
The OSS system is ADAM's current top flagship speaker. The speaker part of the entire system consists of 8 X-ART tweeters, 12 X-ART mid-range speakers, 8 9-inch mid-bass speakers and 12 19-inch speakers. As for the bass component, the power amplifier module part uses three PWM power amplifiers with an output power of 500W to drive the treble, midrange and mid-bass units respectively, while the bass unit is driven by a PWM power amplifier module with an output power of 1000W. In addition, EQ adjustment and low-frequency level control are completed using DSP. Therefore, the entire system is quite large.
Reference price: US$250,000
MartenColtraneSupreme
Mentioned HiFi, it is difficult for us to associate it with Sweden, a Nordic country. Because in the traditional concept, HiFi audio manufacturers are mostly concentrated in the UK, Germany and the United States, while there are not many HiFi speakers in Sweden. However, the product we are going to talk about below is the flagship product of Swedish Martin, the model is Coltrane Supreme. The appearance is not amazing, but the price is definitely amazing.
ColtraneSupreme is the flagship speaker of MartenDesign. The six 9-inch Accuton ceramic monomer speakers on the speaker are very eye-catching. However, there are currently only 5 pairs of this product in the world, and the price of more than 200,000 US dollars is indeed a sky-high price.
Reference price: 250,000 yuan
German Physik
Compared with the previous models, German Physik speakers are even rarer. What’s surprising about this speaker is not only its appearance and price, but also its extraordinary configuration. There are 8 bass units combined with 16 mid-bass units plus a high-pitched tweeter unit, especially its treble column. The 360-degree 3D unit is only 0.025 mm thick and movable. It can move forward and backward by 50 cm through remote control.
The top-grade solid wood cabinet guarantees extraordinary sound performance. Of course, it is also difficult to buy this speaker.
Reference price: 250,000 yuan
Swiss Gaowen EpilogueFullSystem
You may feel a little strange when you first see this speaker, because EpilogueFullSystem seems to be a stack of several speakers, but it looks simple and neat. But in fact, this speaker is not simply stacked together, but after careful debugging by the designer and perfect tuning, good sound can appear.
Swiss Gauvin is a company that started out as a traditional record player. Many of its products are famous devices that audiophiles dream of. Unfortunately, the prices are too high, so not many audiophiles have actually seen Gauvin's products. Goldmund was founded in France in 1978 and moved to Switzerland two years later because Switzerland has always been famous for its high-precision industry and has a profound cultural and artistic heritage, which are necessary conditions for the existence of audiophiles.
Reference price: US$268,000
WisdomAudioInfiniteWisdom
WisdomAudio was founded In 1996, its products used Planar Magnetic Technology to manufacture tweeters and midrange units. In addition to HiFi speakers, WisdomAudio has also focused on top-level home theater speakers in recent years. As the name suggests, WisdomAudio's flagship InfiniteWisdom hopes to bring users endless sound quality and unlimited improvement. Of course, it can be done.
Reference price: US$268,000
German morning glory Sphaeron Excalibur
If these speakers are There is one product that you may have heard of, and that is the German trumpet flower. In the past, the products we reported at the exhibition were basically mid-to-low-end products, and Sphaeron Excalibur is the real flagship. If you like it, it's not necessarily because of its top-notch speakers, but also because of its eye-catching appearance.
The total weight of this set of speakers is 619kg. I am afraid that it will be difficult for a house under 100 square meters to use it. However, the requirements for space and environment of Sphaeron Excalibur are indeed too high.
Reference price: US$325,000
WisdomAudioInfiniteGrande
Again A product produced by WisdomAudio. Looking at the people in the picture, you can probably guess how big this speaker is. This speaker weighs 3800 pounds (approximately 1724kg) and is 13 feet (approximately 4m) tall. Judging from this parameter, it cannot be placed in an average house. The effect may be better if placed in a theater.
The price of this speaker suddenly more than doubled compared to the fourth place, reaching $700,000... Seeing this price, I really can't complain anymore.
Reference price: US$700,000
Netherlands GrandEnigma
GrandEnigma Does it really exist? It is said that many top HiFi players cannot explain this issue clearly. This speaker used to be the most expensive in the world, but now it ranks second. It is said that this set of Big Macs is the only one in the world. In addition to its very special appearance, it is amazing both in terms of power carrying capacity and frequency response range.
The price of this speaker reaches 1 million US dollars, but can you buy it with 1 million US dollars? I guess no one can tell clearly.
Reference price: US$1,000,000
GrandEnigma is already in second place. There must be a stronger god to replace him. Come on. That's right, the product that replaced it is called TransmissionAudioUltimate, and the price has doubled to $2,000,000. It weighs more than 4 tons, is more than 11 meters wide, and has too many units to count. I don’t have much to say about this speaker, just take a look.
Reference price: US$2,000,000