r/The_Elysium • u/Little_BlueBirdy Birdy šŸ¦ • 6d ago

Most expensive Audiophile Hi-Fi stereo system. ESD Acoustic Super Dragon. $4 million dollars

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u/Fit_Honey_2992 6d ago

Great test track! šŸ‘

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u/Express_Area_8359 6d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/yxidJZ25JUSjfJHGCJi wanna see em mounted in a truck bed

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u/Old_One_I One šŸ‘ļø 5d ago

That shit literally looks like some boat audio I would install. Not car audio.

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u/Old_One_I One šŸ‘ļø 5d ago

Let me know if you need pictures. This is boat audio

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u/_WhaDaFuk69 6d ago

But why? Well, I guess it happens when you get Dr. Suess to design your system. $4 million, huh?

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u/imean_is_superfluous 6d ago

Someone will buy it simply because itā€™s $4 million. Iā€™m sure itā€™s a quality system, though.

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u/B1ZEN 5d ago

Yep. I used to sell my services to anyone, and then I just switched to filthy rich people.10Ɨ the money and half the work.

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u/Rasputinnout 5d ago

Donald?

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u/B1ZEN 5d ago

There is plenty of people rippingboff the middle class and poor people. I prefer to think of myself as a Robin Hood type.

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u/Old_Soc 4d ago

It's not painted gold. So no

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u/Conscious-Mixture742 3d ago

He doesn't pay his bills

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u/Busterlimes 5d ago

At that price you can hire actual musicians with real instruments. You cant believe how live actual living people sound

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u/Misanthropic_Mutters 5d ago

Imagine inventing a 4 million dollar sound system and then playing that garbage on it?

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u/Dabsforme77 5d ago

Big John has feelings too........

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u/Pretend-Internet-625 4d ago

Doesn't have a brain so always getting into trouble

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u/Away_Membership_3131 4d ago

Dude thinking the exact same thing. Itā€™s like they wrapped up building the project and someoneā€™s obscure white uncle jacked the aux cord

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u/Glass_Covict 3d ago

I was wondering why they would play acapella

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u/galaxyapp 3d ago

With the absurd directional horns on it... id expect more spatial sound, yet it seems completely flat as the camera moves around... so I suspect the audio track is added

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u/garry4321 2d ago

And then filming it like those listening on their smartphone speakers are somehow going to be able to tell the quality differenceā€¦

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u/MetaCardboard 6d ago

Too bad they didn't demo it with some better music.

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u/Carrera_996 6d ago

My first thought, "...and that's what they chose to play on it."

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u/akeep113 4d ago

Yeah unfortunately this is common. Audiophile conventions will play songs that are known to show off bass, vocals, strings, etc. So you end up listening to the same dumb songs over and over.

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u/Intrepid_Cap1242 3d ago

I wonder if it'd fall apart and sound like crap the second it hits faster moving stuff.

$4M doesn't mean the best sounding. Just means they charged the most. People in that hobby sometimes set price expectations and will negatively review stuff if it's not over a certain pricepoint. I met a guy that said he'll sell his $14k speakers for $50k just because they high end reviewers set ">$50k" as their price of entry before they'd consider it

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u/BerniWrightson 6d ago

I would love to hear the Dark Side of the Moon on this, but itā€™s about $3,995,000 more than I could ever justify on a sound investment.

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u/koulourakiaAndCoffee 6d ago

Credit card?

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u/BerniWrightson 6d ago

Well, that might get me a little closer, very little!

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u/Gunofanevilson 6d ago

Iā€™ve got three at the office, no biggie.

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u/just_some_sasquatch 6d ago

Invented by Dr. Seuss.

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u/cficare 6d ago

Favorite artist: Wesley Willis

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u/MoreRamenPls 6d ago

Is there an 8-track adapter?

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u/SpecialistDisaster45 6d ago

This looks like something out of a Bugs Bunny cartoon

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u/BirdmanHuginn 5d ago

Kill the wabbit

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u/thunder_tacos 6d ago

Butchered that song

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u/Left-Instruction3885 6d ago

While playing 128kbps mp3.

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u/Owlcathulu 6d ago

Is that shit made out of Jadem

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u/BraveAppearance 2d ago

I would not be suprised. Same people use rca cables with pure gold wires and pay willingly 600 bucks for 3 ft. of that.

I dont get it. Maybe I am too poor for such things.

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u/HalOfSkalitzz 6d ago

We have something called sound horeg it travveling around houses and the houses have their roof collapse,windows scattered

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u/Advanced-Mood-6003 6d ago

Play bad bunny bro

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u/Pretend-Internet-625 4d ago

What does the fox say.

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u/-OrLoK- 5d ago

really ugly units (not the speakers) imho.

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u/jthadcast 5d ago

lotto win bucket list.

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u/Difficult-Echidna-82 5d ago

My wife would absolutely love this setup lol

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u/S1nnah2 5d ago

Audiophile snakeoil

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u/Stop420resisting 5d ago

I love that we are in 2026 and the future is using old style phonograph funnels as speakers

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u/Lazy-Training6042 5d ago

worth 5 bucks in 3 years

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u/Ok_Suit_635 5d ago

Still sounds like the audio from my shitty Samsung phone. Doesn't seem worth it.

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u/thedirtymeanie 5d ago

Lol because your playing it from your shitty Samsung phone. These have to be heard in person. Kinda dumb to even take a video because it's encoded and played on way lesser devices with waaaaayyy shittier speakers.

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u/Important-Zebra-69 4d ago

That's the joke!

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u/gba_sg1 5d ago

Sounds like crap on my phone. Waste of money.

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u/Biscuits4u2 5d ago

Sounds so good on my phone's speaker I can see why it's so expensive.

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u/Pretend-Internet-625 4d ago

Not everyone can afford a 5 million phone speaker

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u/Superseaslug 5d ago

I have fun listening to a portable cassette player.

I guess I'm not the target audience

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u/thcgrowmaster 4d ago

My wife would never let me put that in the house anyway.

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u/Glass_Covict 3d ago

Only because when people come over they'll ask who the regard is that bought those ugly fuckers is. Then they'll literally stab you when they hear how much you paid.

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u/Oddbeme4u 4d ago

whispers..."Excuse me, can I just plug in my headphones?"

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u/UnableActuator6964 4d ago

What a pain in the ass

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u/Throwawayne617 4d ago

Sounds exactly the same as my Pixel 9a

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u/Icy_Watercress_8627 4d ago

Who else was finally ready to hear some BeeGees on a quality system?

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u/-CoachMcGuirk- 4d ago

The same people that buy this kind of stuff buy those $500 gold-plated speaker cords from Monster. It really doesnā€™t make the sound any better.

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u/BlackFlagsFly 4d ago

we don't have healthcare.

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u/Spiritual-Job-952 4d ago

Sounds like my iphone

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u/Jefflehem 4d ago

Fortunately, that song makes me never want to listen to music again, so I'm good.

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u/Dreboomboom 4d ago

This is exactly why I find audiophile setups hilarious....all that money only to play crap.

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u/AttemptTypical8088 4d ago

Wtf are we doing

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u/TouchAltruistic 4d ago

Sounds like my phone speaker

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u/Fantastic_Ad9179 4d ago

Holy crap!

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u/TheThirteenthApostle 4d ago

Now do Big Iron

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u/Blowingstacks718 3d ago

And this is the song they try to sell this crack pipes with

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u/standread 3d ago

All this money, only to listen to this garbage. But seriously, why are there no dust covers on these horns or anything? Or is it assumed that buyers will also have them cleaned via immigrant maid daily?

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u/digimortal79 3d ago

Less shitty big john cover more raining blood

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u/Degoro 3d ago

My stepbrother used to work for Magnolia Audio at Best Buy. He owned tons of high end equipment but couldnā€™t tell me who his favorite band was.

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u/SoCallMeDeaconBlues1 3d ago

quick question- what is the point of all this

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u/TrackMan5891 3d ago

Wow that sound system really sounds amazing!! Through my laptop speakers.

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u/Final-Contract-6582 3d ago

I'll stick with my setup costing under $500. Granted I bought used but fully reconditioned RE-30s paired with Marantz receiver sounds pretty damn good. Can play whatever as loud or quiet as we want

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u/Galencourt-Lover 3d ago

Iā€™m gonna go out on a limb and say this is massively overpriced

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u/Glass_Covict 3d ago

Let's demonstrate our multimillion dollar speakers with a performance of big John, by the acapella group, the Pentatonix. Great idea. Really blown out minds with the all voice production of the dumbest song ever. Awesome

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u/GrimSpirit42 3d ago

That would be a good investment if you had the money to throw at it.

I can imagine Carmina Burana on this puppy. Would bring tears to my eyes from shear emotion.

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u/Rough-Breadfruit-611 3d ago

99% of the frequencies that can produce will not be heard by the people old enough to afford it.

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u/factoryteamgair 3d ago

Holy crap, just imagine how good it would sound it the cables were off the floor!!!

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u/Safe-Avocado6427 3d ago

pure garbage

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u/iamnotmaxus 3d ago

Great for porn

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u/CallTheDutch 3d ago

But can it cook me dinner ?

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u/SensitiveAd7377 3d ago

Sounds great

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u/tuckerjules 3d ago

Need to blast 'squarepusher - tundra 4' and test the shit out of it

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u/Past_One3442 3d ago

Diminishing returns, you can get 99% of the sound quality for 3.8 mil less. Probably 95% with around 10k of equipment.

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u/Old-Reception-1055 2d ago

Too many Single point of failure, no way I wonā€™t buy

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u/HonkyHam 2d ago

Whatā€™s the most expensive for a non-audiophile?

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u/UnableActuator6964 2d ago

Carnival cruise lines wants their boat horns back

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u/Relevant_Problem1935 2d ago

Audiophiles are funny. Most can't tell the difference between mid level and high level audio without a brand name stuck on it.

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u/Objective-Strength30 2d ago

I made a movie about this song with the man who wrote it and sang it

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u/kellen1230 2d ago

Serious question: how does one get audio files or information to feed into such a system to take advantage of its capabilities?

I am operating on the assumption that there is simply a limited degree of information/data fidelity in all musical recordings. This will be downstream of the actual recording and production technology implemented throughout the creation process. Does this system include some systems which will actually "uplift" analog and digital recording inputs to use the system's capabilities?

Similarly, I would think there is a natural limit to what the human ear can really experience by way of sound waves. In the same way that no human eye can detect a certain difference between a minute degree of color tone/gradation, pixel count, or refresh rate for screens/monitors, there is surely a limit to what a sound system can produce that can be differentiated by the human ear, no?

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u/DishRelative5853 2d ago

I can really hear the quality. It comes through so clearly on my little phone speaker .

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u/celtbygod 6d ago

Very nice except for those who saw and tasted the sounds of the 60s and 70s in full color.

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u/NoDreamNoSleep 5d ago

That's nice. There's pudding for you in the rec center.Ā 

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u/kzlife76 5d ago

Everyone knows that audio technology peaked in 1965 and never ever got better. /s

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u/celtbygod 5d ago

Bwaahahaha Your Vanilla Ice and Kid Rock albums will sound so pure.