Fibonacci Technologies Vaya Ribbon Speakers

[PMAT 2,061]

Check out these interesting speakers.

 

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/ele/6113378373.html 

 

 

 

"I have a set of very unique Fibonacci Technologies Ribbon Transducer speakers for sale. These were $15K new. They were the product of George Short of North Creek Music fame. Fibonacci Technologies was his last company before he closed the business and became full time Wisdom Audio's principal audio design engineer.

Here is George's bio on Wisdom Audio's website:

George Short
Principal Audio Design Engineer

George began his career at Teledyne Acoustic Research in the late 1980's. He then joined Apogee Acoustics as a design engineer, developing hybrid line-source speaker systems incorporating proprietary ribbon drivers. George later founded Fibonacci Technologies and North Creek Music Systems, where he created the Fibonacci Ribbon Transducer and specialized in the manufacture and distribution of conventional and ribbon transducers, loudspeaker crossover components, assembled networks, and subwoofer amplification. George's broad experience in transducer and loudspeaker design, acoustic measurement and simulation, manufacturing, and project management will be key to successfully realizing Wisdom Audio's future product road map. With a passion for music, movies and high performance audio systems, George is a perfect addition to our Carson City based engineering and manufacturing team.

The speakers require a subwoofer as they only go down to 80hz. I have a JL Audio F112 that I will sell with the speakers for 1500.00. The sub retailed for 3500.00 when new.

Here is a link to the retired website of Fibonacci Technologies.

http://fibonaccitechnologies.com/html/retired.html

That is actually my speaker in the picture.

I purchased this demo speaker from George in 2011. He used this specific set for demo as it has an issue with the veneer. It is sort of lumpy in various places on both speakers. It isn't really that offensive. It has not progressed in the years I have own the speakers. The speakers cabinets were built by http://www.taylorspeakers.com/index.html in New York.

You can see the imperfections in the pictures. It actually kind of gives it an organic look. George did finally move to a rectangle shape as I guess they had issues getting the curved cabinet to work. The curve is part of the original design for a specific reason regarding sound defection off of the cabinet.

I have spoken to George and he has told me that he has many replacement parts for the speakers so there is a backup plan is something fails. George says he has never had a failure so far.

There is not much on the internet regarding these speakers. I will link what is out there.

If you scroll down you will see the Fibonacci Technologies post by the reviewer of the audio show. The speakers in the picture are for a specific application but they are the same components as the Vayas.

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue67/newport2013.htm

The next one is from a DIY audio forum. These guys are notoriously judgmental and rude but the information finally gets sorted out by people that know what a great talent George Short is.

http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/planars-exotics/176247-fibonacci-ribbons-george-short.html

That is all I can find on the internet.

I live up way up in Northern California almost to Oregon....Humboldt County. Nobody here is going to want these speakers around here. This is barely Bose country....much less something as esoteric as these speakers.

The speaker sound amazing. The sweet spot of these speakers is much larger than you tradition ribbon. The curve of the hand make ribbon is the reason behind that. 

I love these speakers but am in a much smaller house and no longer have the space to keep to full size systems of this caliber. They are currently in storage but it is possible to set them up for listening at my home or yours. I can set them up with the JL Audio Sub that I have.

I can't say enough about how awesome these speaker sound. But it is time to let them go as they have been in storage for almost two years.

The little blemish that looks like a small dent is on the backside down by the bottom and I never actually noticed it until I started looking for marks for this ad. 

I could possibly bring them down to the Bay Area if someone is very interested. That is a big if....

I will take 5k.
 

[4krow 7,461]

Speaker design has absolutely fascinated me since a young age. Only a few days ago, I received the TAS illustrated book of speaker 'history'. Speakers such as these and many more kept me in that book until I was crosseyed.

[BarryG 2,859]

Nice looking speakers Paul! Named after one of my favorite mathematicians!

 

BarryG

[AndrewJohn 10,970]

That is a rare sighting!

 

Almost tempting enough to go "look at them" and test them with an amp and source..., just to experience them.  Too far away for that. 

[Ar9Jim 6,520]

Interesting that the designer started out at Acoustic Research. The guy that started NHT was also a former AR designer.

 

AR was founded by Henry Kloss and Edgar Villchur in 1954. I think it is interesting to see the transfer of knowledge and refinements by engineers over the history of audio reproduction.

 

Bob Carver often talks on video with respect about the designers before him and how much he learned from them and their products. 

 

Amazing to me, are the huge number of patents that Bob has to his credit. He followed greats and still accomplished an incredible number of great and original ideas.