Tom Danley's INCREDIBLE Hyperion Speaker

From following the " Danley owner's thread", I'd say there are less than a dozen people here that actually own and use Danleys, in any form, in a home environment, in the U.S., that are also members here at AVS ( Tom and Ivan excluded )

I will say it's given me a new perspective on my next upgrade ( for my subwoofers ) path, as far as the shape of the boxes I should place my SH 50's between, one above and below each. I'm planning on already purchased 4 24" subs, and working on the box design. My idea is to make a SBA, utilizing 10' ceilings, and placement at the 1/4 points of my front wall.
The only sticky point is trying to figure out a way to fit one sub above and another below. My initial thought was to replicate the footprint of the 50's, vertically, "tetrahedrically" so they 'fit' into the corner better. Seeing these Hyperions, has me thinking of just making square subs, but with a slanted 'top' for the bottom sub, kind of like this speaker is placed upon the lower 'box', with another 'box' above, with a slanted bottom.

My thought is fabricating a metal plate to put onto the back of my 50's, placed horizontally, to 'anchor' them between the subs. Wider than the back plate of the SH 50, so it 'catches' on the lower sub, and 'anchors' the sub above, without putting too much stress on either. It'll require cut-outs on that metal plate to allow the Speakons space to connect, and replacing the 2 (machine) screws with longer ones that'll still maintain structural integrity, while holding them between 200 lb + subs, above and below. Hope this makes sense.

RayGuy said:

... and they are still ugly as sin.

Click to expand...

It's a prototype--ya know, to get the performance as good as they can achieve then worry about the grils or finish work later.

Danley was asked about his SH series speakers by a royal member of some oil producing country in the middle east. The guy wanted to know if the SH could be done in rosewood finish (over $1,000 a sheet for the veneers) Sure....but it will cost you $$$$ each to do so. No problem when you pump money out of the ground so they did the full theater in rosewood.

So, if you want some furniture finish--and you have the cash I'm sure they can build you whatever you want. Funk Audio will do the same thing and any furniture restoration place can take any speaker and make it pretty with whatever finish you wish to pay for.

If pretty is your thing, plenty of companies make lifestyle speakers to match the furniture. Prototypes of anything are not pretty by nature as running changes tend to mess up glossy finishes. Looking forward to Danley rolling out a smaller speaker as I have subwoofers. At least they don't put out cones and domes and proclaim a "game changerr" every year because they changed the veneers or made it look more stylish. Infinity did the same thing 40 years ago with the massive four tower $50K speakers--they sold less than a 100 pairs. More of an exercise into how big they could make it but their profits where in the considerably smaller (and back friiendy) Kappa 6/7/8/9 series.

Nothing wrong with a "halo" product, quite common so I expect Danley to actually lose money on their newest consumer speaker. That's OK, it is the first but won't be the last.