OMA Museum Loudspeaker
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- Опубліковано 24 січ 2023
- The Museum Speaker was created for the Guggenheim Museum of Art in New York City and featured in the 2021 show Anthem. OMA's newest speaker is an extremely powerful, compact, professional level speaker made from solid Pennsylvania ash wood, treated in a new thermal process called torrefaction. This makes the wood darker, more stable and improves its already excellent tonality. The sculptural grill and the speaker rear panel are carved out of sheets of phenolic, a composite of paper and thermoset resin, which possesses excellent damping qualities.
The speaker's stand is made from heavy gauge cold rolled steel. The two 15" woofers are fully professional transducers, as is the coaxial compression driver on the wooden mid and high frequency stadium shaped conical horn, invented by OMA and a first in audio history. The lower 15" woofer is actively powered by OMA's own design and built plate amp, offering stunning low bass reproduction. This four way system is capable of concert level output with very little power, being 100db 1watt/1meter efficiency, higher than any speaker in its class. With 8 ohm nominal impedance it can be driven by any amplifier, including low power tube amps.
The Museum Speaker is like having a Formula One race car in your driveway.
you make genius products! Greetings from Kristijan/ audiomodul doo / Croatia ❤
Finally an active speaker worth having. Stunningly beautiful
Fantastic build.
Very cool, been a fan of OMA for the last 10 years or so when I first discovered on UA-cam. OMA has a great aesthetic. Jono is not to everyones taste, but I respect his knowledge and passion.
The beauty in all of OMA's products is outstanding, they are modern timeless classics. If I had the funds to purchase them I wouldn't hesitate to do so.
Outstanding.
A perfect match for the Guggenheim.
The K3 turntable would also look incredible there.
Well done all involved.
Thanks for sharing.
Thank you, Paul!
Love this very sculptural modernist design. Holly cow! Absolutely stunning.
I so want to hear these! They look GLORIOUS
Absolutely amazing. I just enjoy hearing about OMA work
I believe those are the most beautiful speakers I have ever seen. I would love to listen to them in person .
Captivating video, 22+ minutes long, seems like it ran in about 8 minutes. The reverb issues in the Guggenheim must have been an enormous challenge. Well done - thank you!
Fantastic. Pairing these with a super low watt amp omg. I'm salivating
I bet they sound pretty great. I am making a speaker surround that changes things, and is great also.
I admire your love, and passion for Art, Physics, and the Audio. It shows in everything you do and make.
Magico M9 has Two 15" woofers for lower bass, Two 11" woofers for upper bass, One 6" midrange and a 1.1" diamond coated Beryllium Tweeter for highs. Sensitivity: 94 dB. Frequency response: 18 Hz - 50 kHz +/- 3dB BUT they are 80" high, It takes 3 days to install them, 1000 pounds each on weight and you have to have 4 monoblock megabuck amps and you have to have a room built in your house for them with 100 grand in of room treatment. 200 grand in cables. You will be spending over 1.5-2 million dollars and they will be antiquated in 7-8 years and be 1000 pound ruins.
Magnificent ! Beautiful ! Outstanding craftmanship !
This is my favorite aesthetically designed speaker ever. I instantly fell in love when i first saw photos. I own MTM configured speakers with a large horn in the middle and dual 12'' drivers(front ported) with high end capacitors and i love how it sounds like a point source and they image as good as time aligned Khorns and Jubiliees, but damn they're ugly large coffins and the plastic horn feels cheap and thin. I wish i could afford the museum's. Incredible design.
12”?
I thought they were 15”
@@n.lyndley.9889 I was talking about Cf-4s
@@n.lyndley.9889his own speakers are dual 12‘s, they are not the same, possibly built himself
Always the best from OMA!!
Even though I could never afford your speakers I would love to hear them one day I think you are an artist man you the man brother!
Piece of Audiophile Art 🖼️ and BEYOND ✨💎 Your ancient fan from Tehran Iran ❤️🤍💚
Beautiful design without a doubt ❤
Very well designed engineering! Completely endorse your company and your aesthetic
Wow, these speaker look beautiful. Truly a museum grade! Can you please post a sound demo. I know I know.. But, great speakers such as Audio Note for example can captivate the listener even through UA-cam. For hard to audio speakers like here, I believe at least you can give your audience a taste of what it can sound like.
Absolutely stunning design. Best of all worlds - the character of the driving amplifier...maybe a beautiful single-ended design...but with the ability to deliver scale and presence, thanks to the woofer arrangement and active amplifiers. OMA - definitely on the bucket list to hear these and your other products. Staggeringly beautiful appearance and construction with sound to match. Thank you.❤️👍
Wow Jonathan another masterpiece, gorgeous.
Beautiful !
Beautiful speakers I can only imagine sound coming out of them
There are plenty of companies doing powered woofers in their speakers. OMA is not the first company to do so. Great looking speakers though, I am sure they sound amazing as well.
You read my mind and build it.
Beautiful speakers man.
avant-garde, as the old electro-acousticist said ... a good loudspeaker is a heavy loudspeaker and of course a compression loudspeaker. America is avant-garde modern but also draws inspiration from classic engineering solutions
amazing
It's the best looking speaker I've ever seen.
Bet they make the Sourcepoint 10 sound like a dusty old shed radio's speakers. Wish they were affordable like the Sourcepoint. Oh well. It's fun to stare at Ferrari's and I could never afford one of those either. Beautiful speaker.
wow, an exciting concept👍
I can think of dozens of ‘speaker manufacturers that employ active bass modules.
Still a fan though!
I will own a pair of these in my lifetime. I don't know how, I just know.
Cool! Your audio is distorted. I used to work for Transparent Audio here in Maine and I loved the "listening room"!
"Virtually no one who makes super tweeters..." Tannoy, Fostex, Thownsend, Audiosmile, Murata, Taket, it goes on. Kevin your products, your sound and your ethos on sound (not your ethos on ensnaring clients) is so good don't bullshit. You don't need to. BTW massively jealous of the BBC EMT. How did that get to the states? :)
They are beautiful and very desirable.
I guess they are B&C coaxial hf drivers, very interesting to use them in hifi, are actually more for linearrays to save space.
Meyer Sound once had subwoofers equipped with a 15" and 18", to drive the two basses differently probably brings a similar effect. Very nice development and of course a great design, many greetings from Cologne.
Yes these look like B&C DCX464 coaxial compression drivers. Very high-quality hi-fi sound is achievable from these drivers with the right crossover implementation.
@@jstill3121or possibly from BMS (Coda Audio)
I think FLR would have approved of all aspects of the development and design and aesthetics of these speakers and mostly he would have approved of your passion for excellence.
Thank you for this kind comment!
Is your coaxial from BMS,Germany?
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I love the intro... Prima Madonna... Hahahahaha
Use equipment like the the Q3HD or something, and record something, like music from these? To be honest, so far its all talk, and I just do not understand how a conical horn can sound good?
Nothing like this on the market.
Dear Jonathan. These are amazing speakers. You asked whether there is any other loudspeaker using the same principle: passive crossover for mid+high and active woofers. Here in Germany there is a company called "Avantgarde Acoustic". They are doing this as well because it is the only way to "fit" the woofers to the horns. Most likely this is not possible at all with the lowest crossover frequency of 150Hz. In a passive crossover you would need extremely large inductors reducing the low efficiency of the woofer even more. Best regards...
Sandy Gross made a career creating speakers with powered woofers and passive midrange and tweeter drivers. Definitive Technology and GodenEar Technology. There are many others.
16:40 RIP Bill 😢
Two questions: how much? And - can I get a pair of these dolly’s as well. At least for the setup. Nailing the sweet spot will be a Herculean effort otherwise.
How can i own one..if I can't, then what's the use
What's the MSRP?
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The previous OMA designs really didnt do much for me, this new set is quite attractive though. I imagine its in the catagory of "if you have to ask" kind of expensive.
In denmark, OMA is a butter factory Company. Been here sin’s the stoneage, I feel…😂😍
Their commercial say’s: say the Word, OMA…🤣🥳
Let us hear it
How much plz
I’d strongly argue that most speaker companies are doing nothing new at all. Most continue to produce much the same designs but chase fashion, wear new clothes, that’s all. The only real innovations have been in active designs producing true cardioid responses, and using active dsp control. Many sound too sterile. I still argue that a big, efficient passive close to full range speaker us hard to beat. I continue to design and produce big, passive, efficient speakers using 50 year old driver technology but with structurally improved modern cabinetry and externalised high quality crossovers. For me, it looks right and sounds right, you cannot have a true point source unless using coaxial speaker designs. Anything else creates issues in the audio field. You can get close but can never accomplish it unless using time aligned coaxial design.
Tommy Horning loudspeakers have used two 15 inch woofers years ago in his Agathon Ultimate design. Others have done similar such as Tannoy with their Kingdom speakers and yes, they’re true high end hifi speakers. Remember the Tannoy Windsors?
SE amps DO NOT have the damping factor ( unless using stacks of negative feedback) to control conventional speakers PERIOD. Damping factor is purely the mathematical relationship of amplifier output impedance (and crossover losses) to speaker impedance. I am constantly amazed and disappointed at designers who just cannot grasp this as it is basic physics, not personal opinion, so is not open to argument unless the laws of physics have changed?
No listening? 😞
Challenge Jonathan Weiss
Hello I like your speakers and your turntable
Unfortunately I have a budget of $5000
Australian
Could you build me a bookshelf speaker with your passion and uniqueness for 5 K. ?
This is the challenge...
Regards Hifi lovers Down Under..🎼🎵🎶
He's not really sure
freakin GORGEOUS!