Apparently they do album release parties there. I Google Lens-ed the photo and the horn at the top seems to be an Altec Lansing theater unit.
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Read about it in the current Stereophile
After doing an architectural tour of older colleges and universities, I found that many had Klipsch horns installed in certain common areas in the 60’s and 70’s which still remain. I imagine this is that kind of example.
Ojas system?
Yes
Thats what I think. Looks like a setup of his.
These are custom OJAS speakers based on Altec designs.
What’s the cam filter?
Found behind the screen in most theatres back in the day.
We always had JBL powered by Crown amps.
Lol. Ojas designed by the laughingstock of audio, Devon Turnbull.
Known for taking Japanese listening room/bar culture, gentrifying it to sell to hipsters, yet unlike the Japanese dudes who actually make the best out of super old designs, Devon has zero engineering skills or experience with speaker design.
Some of his best work are the $300 JBL commercial (designed for offices and schools) ceiling speaker driver that he puts in a plain plywood square box and sells for $6k
Or the $49 Dayton class D amp he puts in a plain stamped steel case and sells for $500.
I actually didn’t really care about him until I started hearing people regurgitating his bullshit to me in real life. He also sold a pair of custom commissioned speakers to a very good friend of mine’s store and delivered them with no amps and crossovers….
Wow! I’ve only seen a YouTube about Devon Turnbull’s systems. Plus some posts on Reddit about fancy installs in high faluting New York shops. It seemed like he was the new messiah of Hi-Fi.
Hot take!
Not at all. He’s widely known to have literally no idea what he’s doing. Anyone with the most basic understanding of acoustic theory can take one look at his Instagram page and see this.
That room does sound good tho
Probably true but I have to agree with ocinn - it sounds good at a price punching way above it’s output.
Whatever they paid for that system you could have a much better sounding system for less.
He clings to old stories and pushes aesthetics over function and overcharges for it. Snake oil is a perfectly apt description and although everyone can agree there’s a lot of it to go around in the hifi community, Devon is an especially low brow offender of it.
He’s a business / marketing guy selling himself as an audio wizard when nothing could be further from reality.
It doesn’t sound good lol. It sounds fine.
Eavesdrop in Brooklyn sounds 5000x better. Why? Because they used Danley SH60s which are actually designed by a real engineer 👷♀️
It sounds safe. Treble roll-off so that nothing sounds abrasive and, sadly, not much in the way of micro details/texture.
Not according to u/ocinn though. I want to hear more about his drama because I want to build one of these.
Seriously, I feel like I am going crazy. These speakers are designed by a fashion designer with absolutely no knowledge about engineering or acoustics and he gets praised here like he is some kind of messiah. Is this sub about high fidelity equipment or not?
Public Records has some of the best sounding systems in the city!
I engineer there!
I like the sounds of those kinds of horns but nothing beats the aesthetic of Smith Style Horns
if you don’t know the internet has lots of pictures
search JBL Smith Style Horn
Those are something.
I had a pair of Altec Lansing 19’s in 1980 and they were incredible. They were in a 20’x25’ room and the sound stage was incredible. As others have said here, they just seemed to be so easy to drive. Alas, off to college I went and they had to be sold.
https://www.audiogon.com/listings/monitors-altec-lansing-model-19-2017-11-22-speakers
