Transmission Audio Ultimate speakers -- $1M for the best monophonic sound ever
By Steven Kim 
posted August 6th 2009 10:37PM
posted August 6th 2009 10:37PM
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I'm speechless...
i'm million dollar speakerless
Your voice coil broken?
Speechless is the sound coming out of your mouth when talking next to these bad boys. Hell, the people talking to you will appear speechless, too!
bahahahahahaha buy one I dare you!
I am dieing to plug them in my ipod
Silly audiophiles and their silly stupidity.
They only need to sell 1 to make tons of dough!
I'LL TAKE TWO!!! Oh wait... How much?.... =[
Holy crap this looks AWESOME!!
No it doesn't.
$1,000,000, and no Ipod dock.
I'm disappointed.
They've been threatened by Apple behind closed doors to not release a dock since this monstrosity of a sound system would truly reveal the (lack of) sound quality produced from most or all iPods.
Sounds convincing enough to me. : P
These speakers would sound great with my death and black metal.
your death and black metal would not sound great with these speakers
Only Dimmu and Amon Amarth would sound good with these speakers, since they are well produced.
Mayhem, Emperor, Burzum, etc. sound like there are cups over the microphones (intentional, obviously).
But still, it would be awesome to play these at full blast and still be able to mow the lawn and hear the music clearly. But that might be because these speakers would blow a hole in the wall of a house to clear its path.
Nothing can make death and black metal sound great.
The coolest thing about this is if you scroll up and down with your mouse wheel.
Cool effect.
*does the little pretend puff to signify pass*
Trippy.
i tried. and ya kinda cool.
i was just going to say that. its pretty nifty
just tried it myself and...
well played, Joe.
At $1,000,000 a piece I think I'll pass on this offer. And at 7' high this thing will dwarf everything in your living room.
drop the price to 900k and I'll put in my order today.
I'm independently wealthy.
but if your living room was a warehouse, this would be awesome.
That picture makes me want to punch it ... twenty four times.
Shouldn't you have learned about controlling anger from that incident at the Nuclear Power Plant?
Remember, he likes to be called Grimey.
wow.
on a side note, does anybody know of any really tall speakers under $1000? I've always thought that tall speakers look good aesthetically, but nothing this tall.
I wouldn't recommend buying speakers based on height :-)
However...
These are cheapish and tallish: http://www.pioneer.eu/eur/products/42/99/161/S-H520V-QL/specs.html
but finding anything much over a metre or so at around that price would seem unlikely.
Maybe some substantial but squat speaker stands with some large but normal-height floor standers on top would give the effect you want without compromising your choice of speaker too much: http://www.shopatron.com/product/part_number=SL300/758.0
I have a question. Where does this business get the million dollars in the first place to build the prototype.
I'm sure they must have a alpha and even a beta. I wouldn't think a bank would loan out of a few million dollars for an extended period of time.
They don't cost anywhere neat that much to make.
I feel stupid to pay for that, show me your cost?
I believe you meant "feer". It's ok, we all try to hard at some point.
(see what I did there?)
Someone go find Gates so he can review one of these bad boys.
Now THOSE are the speakers I want to watch Iron Man on :DDDD
If your read the article, a two channel set comes bundled with 6000W of power, not 500W. The speakers are rated at 12,000W of sustained power. That is just, well, absurd.
There's something cool about this kind of absurd, anyway.
Of course, I'm pretty sure some a-hole is going to drive by my house any minute now trying to pump 12,000W of power through their crappy 8" subwoofers in their Ford Pinto.
I need a million bucks quick, before these baby's are gone!
The bank denied my request for a loan :*(
Dammit I had to buy a phantom rolse Royce today!
So...why couldn't someone make one of these themselves for like...1000 bucks? Sure it wouldn't be sooo uber overkill but I'm sure it would sound just a good.
Technically, "$1M" stands for a thousand bucks. $1MM = a thousand thousand, or a million . . . but obviously Roman numeral notation has fallen out of favor. No one in the media seems to follow that convention anymore.
I did not know that at all. Thanks for the know. But now I'll just be more confused, as I won't know if the articles mean one million, or one thousand...
Lives odd like that.
@JPW:
Please use the metric system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_prefix
M is a million.
Thank You Good Bye
USD 1K = 1 kilodollar
USD 1M = 1 megadollar
SI = international system of units (except in the following developing countries: Myanmar, Liberia, USA)
@ JPW
BTW (By The Way), Roman numeral notation system isn't multiplicative but additive system. Thus, although M is a thousand (1,000), MM is NOT a million (1,000,000). MM represents two thousands (1,000+1,000=2,000). Ergo, MMIX is a way to put down a year 2009. Also, one more thing comes out clearly after we've laid the groundwork here. Roman numeral notation system is a self-contained notation system usually used to represent years, but it NEVER serves as a suffix system to augment the Arabic numeral notation. Therefore, "$1MM" means ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AT ALL. So, before attempting to confuse those that know even less than you, read up on a subject upfront. That'll make you look a lot less silly and a showoff.
P.S. The larger numbers than M (1,000) used to be represented by putting the horizontal line above a letter. So, a "C" with a line above was (100,000) and so forth. However, that was all but abandoned in use since Roman numerals are only used to express years (dates).
I bet these things don't even exist. Probably nothing but these CGI images.
They dug it up at Tycho crater on the moon.