A Close Look at ACORA VRC At Audio Excellence
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2024
- Acora produces some of the most exquisite speakers globally, all are made with Canadian pride 🇨🇦. The Acora Acoustics VRC speakers, crafted from naturally flecked granite, deliver beguiling and authoritative sound. Featuring five drivers and rear double-ported design, these 450lb obelisk-shaped speakers provide an expansive soundstage.
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Toronto Audiofeset Attendees' Thoughts on Acora (with captions):
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Beautiful looking speakers in this shining black!
Their all new $37K Acora QRC Loudspeakers was just reviewed and are among the very best in the world at any price...
Congrats on getting this new line of speakers. Keep posting these unboxing videos. Interesting to watch.
Thanks
Incredible speakers. Val is such a great guy. The Sunset Fire finish from Florida display and others since ... look SOO amazing.
Im always happy to photograph these at shows.
fantastic sounding speakers, thought they were best of show at axpona last year
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I'll bet those speakers ROCK especially if you get STONED.
lol
Nice Royal Oak!!! Speakers and Gryphon look awesome too - do they sound different than with the Dan D'agostino Momentum's as demo'd at the Toronto Audio Fest?
Thatsa Bigga Speaker! Ohhhhh!!! I have spoken with Val a few times and he is an encloypedia of speaker and amplifier engineering.
Now THAT is an unboxing treat! Acora have been killing it of late, and the VRC-1 are crazy end-game speakers! 💗🪨🔊
Speakers “disappear” just like your bank account balance will. For those in which “to much is just not enough”. Interesting that most designers with a sloped cabinet typically put the slope at the front baffle in order to achieve some level of physical time alignment of the drivers. The slope is at the rear of this cabinet. 🖖🏽
great video. Adrian do you have a link where to find the wood diffusers that are hanging on the wall?
Those are custom made
218k, OMG
@Adrian so this was a hard one; cause most of the video you refused to turn the wrist, so all I can see was a buckle. Perhaps it is a deployant buckle but I am not sure.
Onto the watch; now, at close to just about the 7 minute mark, is when I got a closer look, I could be wrong, but is this a two tone possibly like you had with the Rolex GMT? Based on the case shape and the octagonal bezel, one single crown, no other pushers, I am leaning towards an Audemars Piguet Royal Oak. I want to say maybe this is 39mm? Again, this is all a guess, roughly. You can again tell me how far I am off.
By the way, I also did get to hear these Acoras at the Axpona 24 just a few months back, driven with VAC gear. It is great sounding, obviously hardly any cabinet coloring added to it. But man, at prices not many can afford. I would also imagine getting these speakers around the house would be quite a lot.
You are AMAZING! Yes, 2 tone RG/Tantalum with slate dial. I may have to get out my collection of Swatch to see if you are as encyclopedic about those as you are about everything else! lol
@@adrianlow2114 RG and tantalum? Not many makers use tantalum as material. Way back when I knew Panerai used it on one of their models, and also F.P. Journe. Did not know AP use tantalum also. Very unique.
And is that a custom strap? I don’t think I often see a Royal Oak that’s not on a bracelet. So I wonder if it is a custom leather strap.
Last but not least, I think I have had two Swatches, way back when. So I definitely won’t know, unless you happen to own the two new collabs that Swatch did on Speed master or Fifty Fathom, as they are easier to spot. 😊
@@woody168 It's an original AP leather strap. Watch is pretty rare by Royal Oak standards, I haven't seen another. Maybe because everyone wants the big RO. I bought a bunch of Swatches for fun way back, not sure where they are now. Might have to get some time and go to the deposit box to get more watches for you to spot! lol.
@@adrianlow2114 lol I have two Swatches, and I also do not know where they are!
Wait, you mean to tell me Adrian that you do not keep your safe queen watches in between the upper and lower cabinets of the Wilsons? 🤣
Heard the Acora speakers at Capital Audio last year and found them painfully bright, shrill really and the sound presentation stabbing and pummeling, desperate to impress and almost instantly fatiguing. The granite is sort of cool but if I want high end sculpture I’ll just hit the galleries in Chelsea.
Suddenly, I’m not sure I’m watching the videos I should be after seeing that price tag.
Are those for sale?
yes
Wow.... It's gorgeous but it's $218K USD ! Don't know why... It makes an Audi R8, with easily 100x the number of parts, seem like a total bargain as it is so much more complicated machine than a speaker !
Lol like they said, these are not for moocher like you
@@MasterofPlay7you did not read well. He said: “I don’t know why”. And that is exactly right. I don’t care about the price but give me some justification.
The manufacturing cost of a unit depends on how many they sell. It often costs hundreds of millions to design and create a production line for a new car. If Acora could sell 50,000 of them, then they could make them for a lower cost. There is undoubtably a substantial cost in fabricating a speaker out of solid granite slabs into that particular shape. Also, don't forget that dealer cost (what Acora gets when selling to a retailer) for audio equipment is usually about 60% of MSRP.
Gotta pay to play
@@MasterofPlay7 Is the name calling really necessary ? I was just questioning the value proposition....
I get high end audio speakers and 6 figure pricing, but for a speaker of this size with non - bespoke drivers is ridiculous.
These speakers can be bought by the folks who has done upward transfer of wealth in last few years!
Take resonance out of cabinets
Sonics improves 100 percent 😊
Didn’t Acora purchase Audio Research Corp.
The owner of Acora purchased Audio Research.
I believe you when you say they sound great. But I’ve yet to see a pair that I could tolerate to look at. Just awful aesthetics.
95% of all speakers are ugly.
You talk too much. You should add clips of sound and then comment on that instead of only yap, yap, yap, none of which I can relate to!
I am 70 years old and I don’t appreciate being called boys and girls you should referr to your audience as ladies and gentlemen as I am a gentleman and not a boy! Get real!!
I am sorry you were offended. It's just how I speak. No harm intended.
@@adrianlow2114 change the way you speak ok
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