AJL999 Posted January 29, 2019 Posted January 29, 2019 Item: Karri Walpole Speakers - in Jarrah Location: Central Coast 2257 Price: $600 Item Condition: Excellent Reason for selling: Upgraded to something much more $$$ Payment Method: Pickup - Cash, Paypal, COD Only Extra Info: Quoting from Australian Hi-Fi in 2015……”Karri Acoustic's smallest speaker is the floor-standing Walpole, which uses an upward-facing 152mm-diameter bass/midrange driver in an omnidirectional mode, bass-reflex configuration with a downward-firing port. The driver has a cast aluminium basket and geometrically reinforced aluminium cone. This is crossed, via a series 6dB per octave crossover circuit, to a tweeter with 64mm diameter aluminium cone that’s driven by neodymium magnet and operates in a waveguide-loaded dipole configuration.” What I can say is that the open baffle tweeter gives them a wonderful open sound, and the ported bass goes WAY low…..much lower than you’d expect from a 152mm (6”) driver. Hand made in Western Australia. Bonus….beautiful design, real Jarrah veneers, and Marri frames for the tweeters. Original new price - $1,500, and I understand these are no more than 3 or 4 years old. I have boxes which will safely facilitate local delivery, but sending via the mail / courier could be problematic, as I’d hate for the tweeters to be damaged, plus packaged they are 115cm long. Pickup from 2257 Central Coast, or I could arrange pickup from Killara (2071). https://www.avhub.com.au/news/hi-fi/karri-acoustic-walpole-407053 Pictures: 2
Spider27 Posted January 29, 2019 Posted January 29, 2019 Does it mean that it is less problematic with room treatment since base is firing upward instead of backward? Best luck on sale. It looks very unique 1
AJL999 Posted January 29, 2019 Author Posted January 29, 2019 Actually it's a bit more complex than even that. They have a bottom port, so the deep bass comes out the bottom...so to speak. But they DO seem to "disappear" more than normal front-facing, closed-box designs. 2 1
Graham Andrew Posted January 31, 2019 Posted January 31, 2019 I had a pair of these, in Jarrah as well. Loved them. The bass is from the bottom, found it best on hard floor. Super speaker and for the price I don't know how you could do better for a small floorstander. They don't mind a little power as well. GLWS. Should go soon. 3
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