Six Million Dollar Bionic Speakers

[voice of the theater]

I did an ebay search today for Altec 416 and this result came up--almost $1200 for a woofer!

Altec 416-8B | Kilimanjaro-Series A416WVL | NEW NEU - eBay (item 260579855608 end time May-03-10 05:47:37 PDT)

Has anyone seen these? Is this a gimmick? I find it hard to believe they're worth anywhere near the price especially since they are not "time tested" like the Vintage Altec/GPA technology that keeps going and going and going and still sounds amazing..... I don't see much in the way of specs on his listing either--but there is plenty of trash talk about vintage speakers in general. I went to their website and under "NEWS" they have this listed
"News
2010-04-02
VOTT equipped with field-coil speakers ready for demonstration. Stunning."
Field-Coil Speaker(s) | Kilimanjaro-Series | Wolf von Langa
There are photos of VOTT style speaker systems on the website. Do they even have the legal right to call these things VOTT? At $1200 per woofer they better include a date with the Six Million Dollar Bionic Woman!

P.S. According to the ebay listing on these woofers " The price is only for this time limited promotion." Ummm, what will they cost after this promotion? Gulp......

[Audio_by_Goodwill]

I assume the field coil motors are essentially hand made.

[lowpoke]

I saw these a while ago. I got the impression he starts with a GPA driver and as Audio_by_Goodwill suggests, hand makes the field coil motors.

I'd have no reason to doubt they sound impressive. (Out of my price range though.)

[Altec Best]

I saw those awhile back too I think they are Made In Germany.

[Nipper]

They can keep dreaming and yipping all they want....

I will put my "old worn out" 30+ year old VOTT's (all original) up against his anytime.
I'm not scared.
:snickerpup:

[voice of the theater]

I will put my "old worn out" 30+ year old VOTT's (all original) up against his anytime.
I'm not scared.
:snickerpup:

I agree! (Model 19's/Valencias in my case)