Acapella Audio Arts: The $650K Sphaeron Excalibur loudspeakers
Recorded in 24bit 96kHz at the Acapella showroom on May 13, 2019. We uploaded several of these videos. Please subscribe and check out our Acapella Sphaeron Excalibur playlist.
The Sphaeron Excalibur speakers weigh over 3000 lbs each, use a powered plasma (ION) massless tweeter and have four 18 inch woofers per speaker.
If you listen carefully, you will hear notes in the music you have never heard before. That is because the notes have been on the CD all along [which was uploaded to a music server for this demo] but no speaker has been able produce the notes correctly and distinctly before [having to do with the high efficiency of these speakers, the accommodating load they present to the amplifier, the ION Tweeter, etc].
And it is not just the notes, so much more emotion and excitement of the music is also audible for the first time.
Who knew that all our music had all this extra yummy goodness all along, but our speakers just kind of weren’t up to the task.
Associated gear (all extremely modest as these things go): Acapella “Audio One” music server, prototype of Acapella’s forthcoming dac/pre, new Acapella monoblock amplifiers.
People: Neli, of Audio Federation. Hermann Winters, of Acapella Audio Arts.
Guys, These videos are really a step above!
I love how you record the sound and then splice in the video so that we can watch something interesting while listening.
Sphaerons look to be super resolving and detailed!
John, I’m so glad you can hear the difference. Mike took a ton of video and separate audio recordings with a small Sony recorder. And the Spharon experience was astounding. The performance was immediately audible. We can only fit one channel of these Really Big loudspeakers in our room here in Palo Alto.
Hello, recording in 24 bit/96 khz but with what ?
WHAT recorder and microphones brand do you use please ?
regards from Paris , France , marc ,
with Nagra VI , schoeps mk 21 &Neumann km 184 , NAGRA IV-S for acoustic classical music recording with permission of musicians in Parisian Church
yes some of them , are beautiful acoustic !
Hi Marc,
Thanks for your question. I am going to write a post about what I used and the trials and tribulations of trying to get the recording ‘out there’ so audiophiles can hear them.
I used a Sony PCM-D100 mounted on top of a Rovo cushioning apparatus on top of a Leica Q.
But I did look at Nagra [they discontinued their portable recorder!?] and higher quality mics like the ones you use [but I needed the whole thing to be very portable. I went back and forth with getting a larger videocam rig so I could mount them on that, but decided to just stick my toe in the water a little bit for this first outing.
Take care,
-Mike