2. speakers
  3. 1224682786

Red herring lost in a forest of speakers, memories

Hello all you 'goners, I need some help.

I have been racking my brain, computer and internet connection trying to remember a speaker that seemed to strike a chord with me a while back, well at least the review I had read did.

Unfortunately I have had no luck in retracing my memory or steps treaded online and have been going a bit crazy since I cannot remember the name or even the speaker manufacturer... which makes it a little tough to find again in spite of my best efforts. I had found it inadvertently, I believe in another audio chat room(cannot remember which one) while I was doing some research on potential speaker upgrades.

Anyway, I will tell you what I do recall and hopefully with those pieces somebody will be able to put it all together and tell me the name of the speaker and manufacturer.

Well, it was a floorstanding speaker with fairly small dimensions as well as footprints, being upright it had a traditional rectangular look(which is my taste), although it may have been slightly slanted or angled backwards, in fact I think it probably was. Also I believe it was front-ported near the bottom of the speaker. FWIW, In the review I had read it was colored, perhaps painted a very rich and "woody" brown maybe a "coffee" color if you will. Of course there may be other colors available as well. I hope that makes sense.

Anyway, I am not sure, but I think the manufacturer had the word "acoustic" or "acoustics" in its name, although it is not Totem, Aerial or Silverline Acoustics. The model may have been something like the C5 or CS5(but not a center-channel)and had a suggested retail of either $6,995 or $7,995 well at least somewhere in that price range at the time of the reviews writing a few years ago.

Thinking back, I believe I read about it on the Stereophile website after I had Googled it, getting the name from another audio chatroom. I think it, the speaker was introduced with positive reviews at some audio show back in 2005, give or take a few years. I have spent hours scouring the Stereophile site looking for that review but have had no luck.

It may not be the best speaker in the world or even a good one for that matter(I haven't yet heard it), but it has struck my fancy and I have become my namesake, obsessed in trying to find it as the aesthetics and sonic potentials appealed to me.

Well, now you know what I know as best as I can remember it, any thoughts or ideas would be much appreciated as they would be very helpful to my sanity.

Thanks.
audio_obsessed_novic
aktchi
274 posts
 
Audio_obsessed_novic: I understand, we can all relate to such episodes. In my own experience the memory returns later, after I have stopped trying to remember. :)

That said, you should still keep trying to "triangulate" your memory from various sides. For example, even if you don't remember the name, was it long? Short? Common word? Foreign sounding? Etc. You never know what will jog somebody's mind. Although speakers are getting expensive, prices like $7000-$8000 still define a relatively small universe.

If it was sloped, that is likely to be time-aligned or time-coherent design. You could google those words and see if something looks promising.

As for the catalog of all audio products, I haven't bought one for many, many years, but they used to come out once a year.
jkw1
30 posts
 
Okay, we are going to keep trying until we solve this. In 2005 Tyler acoustics was getting alot of attention, front ported, seas drivers, many custom finishes. Give them a try, also I hope it was not the out of business now Meadowlark audio speakers. Let us know.

Jim
jkw1
30 posts
 
DYNAUDIO C-5????????

Jim
soundgravy
23 posts
 
Vienna Acoustics also used a sloped baffle design.
audio_obsessed_novic OP
8 posts
 

Audio_obsessed_novic: I understand, we can all relate to such episodes. In my own experience the memory returns later, after I have stopped trying to remember. :)

Actually Aktchi, I think the problem is that I have stopped thinking about the memory for too long, and now when I need it, my memory fails me and it is not there. See, it was probably early in this year, at least 6 months ago when I had stumbled across the speakers accidentally while doing some research on I think Totem Model 1s or Mani IIs in the AV forum or AVS forum and somebody there had mentioned another speaker which I then proceeded to look up. And yes, I know the Totem model 1 sig and Mani II are bookshelf speakers, and the ones which I am talking about are floorstanding. But honestly, I just don't know anything for sure about them, the speakers at this point, I only mention what I do because for some reason the features are stuck in my mind. But in "triangulating" things as you say, I do not think that the company had a foreign sounding name, the word sounded somewhat common but impressive/appealing, catchy to me. I do not remember its length. Also, for what is worth, because I cannot remember the name, I believe the manufacturer was relatively obscure and little known as it was not a prominent speaker brand being mentioned by many here, otherwise I would probably have better recall. For example they're not Tyler Acoustics, Vienna Acoustics or Dynaudio speakers. Nor are they Meadowlark, at least not from what info I could find on any of these speaker companies mentioned above.

Really though, I do certainly appreciate all of your guys' help with my problem. Unfortunately there seems to be too few good clues and perhaps too many red herring coming out of my memories to solve this mystery. If this doesn't work, the only thing I can think of is to try and re-trace my steps from earlier, many months ago, and hope that I get lucky and stumble upon the speakers again. But I think that would be a long shot and don't believe the endeavor holds much promise, and that really is too bad as they did seem like a pretty darn good pair of speakers for a relatively modest price.

I hope that doesn't sound like I am giving up, because I am obsessive and persistent, trusting that being so will pay off in the end.

Until then, please keep the ideas coming whatever they may be and I will proceed to check them out and let you know.

Thanks,
More to discover