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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: The new G.I.P speakers.
Post Subject: It is not Silbatone.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 5/11/2013
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 Stitch wrote:
Silbatone made a Demo with those Horns (the big ones)

They said, it is one of three existing WE Horns, made 1935/36 (only mod is the addition of the tweeter you can see there). One Horn is made for 3500 Visitors, so we got a 7000 People Demo with them. Driven with a 300B amp from Silbatone. The smile factor from the visitors was big, but most didn't know how to handle that experience (the rest of the High End Systems produced Head ache but most did like that, you know, review winners, Class A++ ratings, pics in mags ..). An american guy came from the back and shouted "That's real music !" and went to the back again. His name was Robarts or so. A lot of german DIY guys were around also, they hugged each other and looked VERY important (this "we know more than you view"...). Maybe it was their holy grail meeting point....
I asked about the price when someone is interested to go for those. They smiled.
But they offer copies with refurbished drivers (when I understood it right, my Korean / English is not really up to date), their smallest model (it is the one above in the first post from Romy I think) starts at 145.000,-- Euros ( $ 190.000,--)....
That made the Magico's, Ypsilon, Avant-Gardes, NOLAs etc. really cheap :-)

Anyway, the woodwork can't be so expensive, are these Drivers really so outstanding expensive??they had a few to show but always with 2 bodyguards left and right of them...

Well, it was not really Silbatone. Silbatone is contemporary Korean company that makes very un-remarkable products, at least in speaker word. What you see was a fragment of personal collection of the gentlemen how owns Silbatone. His is a rich fellow, I heard some kind of industrialist, who like WE and who accumulated a lot of it. Now he is lending some of WE fragments to show off at the trade shows, and perhaps to create a bass about Silbatone as a company.  They use vintage and GIP drivers; I have no idea what they use at the show. Based that it is 2 ways most likely they were 594 drivers, GIP make them as well and I do not know if they are any good. The “American guy came from the back and shouted something was Joe Roberts, the Silbatone’s pimp, whose job is to run around and make verbal waves.

It is good that Silbatone guys keeps parading his WE horns. Unfortunately it is not clear if what they demonstrate is what it has to be. I presume the drivers are very fine; the Film-level solution for the rest of the system is very questionable. If the Silbatone guy get rid from his operation his American whore Joe Roberts and alls that saliva drooling reference to WE legacy and instead let somebody like let say Jeffery Jackson to design for him a contemporary multi-way solution with WE drivers then it might be a very interesting.

The Cat

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