Now the turn for crazy speakers, this would do justice to your money with its sound quality. It was debuted at CES in January and at $150,000 for a pair is one of the most expensive speakers around. The first co-axial unit ever produced by Cabasse was the Diphone, deigned in the early 50s by Georges Cabasse to supply movie theatres going multi-channel when Cinemascope was launched in Europe.
Cabasse La Sphere consists of a tweeter in the heart of concave membrane acting like a moving horn was quickly dropped, the benefits from the co-axial lay-out being overbalanced by numerous directivity and coloration problems. It took the Cabasse R&D team 40 years and several major innovations to propose applications in which the principle of coincident drivers means true technological and musical improvements. The four-way co-axial speaker claims to offer unrivalled technical and musical specifications in a compacter volume than all other ultimate systems.

Meanwhile, the “spherical enclosure is designed to help eliminates standing waves and create a more rounded sound,” according to Luxist.

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