Κώστας Φ.
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- Μηνύματα
- 8.978
- Reaction score
- 895
$39,000/pair
"The Prince V2's enclosure has a port that fires out the front. Hansen cites the speaker's sensitivity as 87dB. The 25mm soft-dome tweeter is mounted on a "dispersion optimized" 6mm aluminum plate. The 7" (182mm) midrange driver and 10.5" (269mm) woofer certainly do not look ordinary. And the speaker, while not all that large, is heavy, as in well over 200 lbs each.
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Princes and asses must always be urged
"Hansen Audio Speakers are meticulously hand built in Canada," it proclaims on Hansen's website. Hand-built? I'm not sure that any $39,000/pair loudspeaker is "mass-produced." When you get to that level, no matter how mechanized your assembly line, I suspect you're still hand-building speakers.
Even so, from the hand-assembly of the drivers to the individual casting of suspensions to the building up, layer by layer, of its cabinets, Hansen Audio's Prince V2 seems a bit more hand-built than most. Lars Hansen would say—has said—that he's not interested in building loudspeakers any other way than his.
Is that a reasonable way to run a business? It depends on what you want to accomplish. Hansen's goal appears to be to make an unreasonably fine loudspeaker—one he's proud to put his name on. I'd say, "Mission accomplished." -- Wes Phillips
"In many respects, the Hansen Audio Prince V2 acquitted itself well on the test bench. But I was puzzled by the decision to cross over from the woofer to the midrange unit at a frequency as low as 100Hz." -- John Atkinson
Full Review: Stereophile.com
