$100,000 speakers or Transformers?

(Credit: YG Acoustics)

Some insightful readers have gleaned that Crave has, on occasion, shown a weakness for unorthodox or expensive loudspeakers (preferably both).

The latest "Voyager" model from YG Acoustics fits that profile to a tee, with a Star Wars-esque design and a price of $100,000 per pair, not to mention that they tip the scales at a full 200 pounds apiece. But what really attracted us to these cast-aluminum monsters was the description from Audio Junkies: "If the YG Acoustics Voyager loudspeakers appeared in the new Transformers movie, I would expect them to promptly turn into a robot and kick someone's ass." We couldn't have said it better ourselves.

This is about as close as we'll ever get to them anyway, as AJ says they're "available only to music and film 'industry leaders.'" And here we were just about to pull out our Visa. Oh well.

(Thanks, Lukas)

[genotypewriter]

The deal...

When they say it's for "music industry and film industry leaders only" they don't mean that others are not worthy to have these or anything. They just mean that these speakers are made for reference type work for use in recording studios etc. and hence the price tag.

I've been involved in music production a bit and have friends who're with Sony Music and what those guys usually say is that if a track sounds acceptable on crappy speakers, then it sounds very good on whatever the public's going to listen to it on lol

[make_or_break]

At least the company name's appropriate...

[b]Why, gee?[/b]

The company description on their web site was actually quite humorous. Not pedigree to speak of, and an absolute adherence to the dogma of aluminum(?), who's 'tekkieness' somehow performs magical things with sound waves. I didn't believe it when KEF--an audio company that DOES have a history, BTW--professed a love of the metal with their Muon, I certainly am not going to believe it with something that looks like an outtake from the 'Transformers' [i]cartoon series[/i].

[genotypewriter]

Yeah, they don't sound right...

Their philosophies are really something else... like how they only demonstrate to invited potential buyers due to "trade secrets"... lol When you note their wording they don't sound very professional at all and the whole thing almost sounds like a scam.