Waterfall Audio "Niagara" Diamond Glass Floor Standing Loudspeakers - Pair

by Waterfall Audio

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 12.6 x 11.8 x 47.2 inches ; 132 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 287 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B002BSH27I
• Item model number: WA Niagara DG
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #457,121 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

From the Manufacturer

Waterfall Audio: Innovators of Glass Speaker Technology

What makes Waterfall loudspeakers unique? Everything about them. Established in 1996, Waterfall Audio released the first glass speaker to the French market in 1999. Esthetics, sublime performance, quality materials and innovative technology came together to create an exceptional audio experience. These stunningly good-looking and sweet-sounding products are now distributed all over the world.

Waterfall Audio’s Niagara EVO delivers incredible high fidelity audio reproduction in a uniquely beautiful design. Initially designed as a concept speaker, the Niagara EVO is a showcase of research, development and technical achievement at Waterfall.

The Niagara’s high density glass cabinet is unlike anything else available and blends in with nearly any décor. Its transparent glass gives rooms an open and airy feel. Glass is not only a stately and beautiful material, its thickness and high density provides superior sound reproduction and helps eliminate unwanted vibrations from the loudspeaker’s structure. The Niagara speakers will astound, transforming your interior into a concert hall experience with a detailed, vibrant and naturally open sound, all underpinned by an ultra-low-frequency passive driver in a down-firing position on the solid aluminium base.

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Patented Acoustic Damping Tube reduces distortion, increases power handling

The Ultimate Fusion of Audio and Interior Design

Stunning Diamond Glass

An imposing glass tower of sound, the Niagara stands 3 feet, 11 inches in stunning 3/4-inch thick diamond glass. Different in color from regular glass, diamond glass is an expensive, luxurious material. It’s treated at a much higher temperature than ordinary glass, giving it extra light capturing qualities and greater transparency--a transparency that makes it look like the drivers are floating on air. When you sit down, relax and take in the sheer celebration of music that these evocative glass towers can achieve, you will clearly know it doesn’t get any better.

Diamond glass creates an open, airy feel

Custom Made Drivers

It’s the drivers that will make you feel like you’re floating on air. Two custom designed and built Atohm drivers are located at the front of the speaker. The bottom panel houses an Atohm ultra-low-frequency passive bass driver in a down firing position to extend bass frequencies.

Unique Glass Horn Tweeter

The striking engineered glass horn tweeter goes through more than ten hours of intense machining and hand finishing and has its own detailed crossover for a luminous and expressive sound. It gives the speaker an open, detailed, natural and totally refined high mid-range. This component is so precious that it is packed separately from the main chamber to ensure the ultimate security.

Acoustic Damping Tube Muffles Vibration

Glass is highly dense, preventing the problematic case vibration that occurs with other speaker enclosure materials. However, it is also highly reflective, magnifying the energy generated by drivers. Rather than using damping materials inside the enclosure--and defeating the esthetic purpose of glass speakers--Waterfall Audio developed patented Acoustic Damping Tube (ADT) technology to muffle the energy right from the back of the driver.

Clean, clutter-free design from top to bottom

The ADT is the fundamental element that enables drivers to function properly in the Niagara EVO’s non-damped glass enclosure. Located at the rear of the mid-bass driver, the ADT limits the return of the back wave on the cone. Its integrated damping chamber provides damping control of medium-high frequencies, resulting in superior audio reproduction. The ADT also provides hydraulic damping in the low frequencies to help control excessive movement of the cone, reducing distortion while increasing the speaker’s mechanical power handling abilities. Finally, mechanical uncoupling of the mid-bass driver and the glass enclosure supports audio integrity and prevents mid-range coloration. The ADT delivers quick, crisp bass and exceptionally accurate mid-range reproduction.

The glass horn tweeter makes music come alive

Smooth and Detailed High Frequencies

All Waterfall Audio crossovers and filters are equipped with the finest components, such as air coil and polypropylene capacitors. The Niagara EVO also utilizes Acculinear circuit technology in the tweeter crossover, which provides exceptionally smooth and detailed high frequencies.

Rich Leather Accents

High-quality, hand-stitched Nappa leather houses the Niagara’s base. Noted for its smooth grain, softness and durability, Nappa leather is typically used for high end applications such as designer luggage and luxury car interiors.

Natural Beauty

Named after the magnificent Niagara Falls, the Niagara EVO evokes the same natural beauty. Internal cables are hidden so as not to distract from the clean lines. Designed from the drawing board like a piece of fine art, the Niagara EVO will enhance your home's appearance while blending in with your furnishings.

Product Description

The new Niagara is an imposing Diamond Glass tower of sound. Featuring a specialty Horn Tweeter, solid Aluminum parts, and hand stitched Nappa leather inclusions. Niagara is a sophisticated blend of craftsmanship and innovative technology delivering rich, natural and open sound beyond expectations. The unique design offers exceptional sound quality, as it plays, the music comes alive. An absolute superiative in every respect, an original work of art, Niagara, will transform your interior into a Concert Hall. Innovative design and technology eliminate any vibrations allowing for true Audiophile Sound. Impressive, elegant, stylish and using the finest quality materials Niagara encompasses all the knowledge, dedication and experience acquired by Waterfall in the past 10 years. Initially designed as a 'Concept' speaker Niagara is the showcase of research, development and technical achievement at Waterfall. We have finally decided to take on the challenge to include it in the product line-up despite the complications in the manufacturing process, each pair is meticulously created by skilled craftsman. The entire enclosure is made in 15mm thick Diamond Glass.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

59 of 94 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars You are paying for...., November 27, 2009

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Jammer49 - See all my reviews

This review is from: Waterfall Audio "Niagara" Diamond Glass Floor Standing Loudspeakers - Pair (Electronics)

Yo people..Dont get so bent out of shape. You are paying for the diamond glass. The speakers are only $119.00 per pair. I bought a pair of these beauties for my gameroom, and they certainly looked great, but unfortunately they didn't sound any better than my old Cerwin Vega speakers so I sent them back..The company called and gave me a hard time, but eventually I got my monies back. I am an investment banker who has been very lucky with investments and also an audiophile, so I wanted to buy something special just to say that I could actually afford something so outrageously expensive. Again, the speakers sound good, but certainly not worth the price (MY OPINION)..The diamond glass certainly looks great though..

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Speakers v. Porsche Boxster or Corvette?, February 16, 2012

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Kenneth J. Connor - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Waterfall Audio "Niagara" Diamond Glass Floor Standing Loudspeakers - Pair (Electronics)

This is a joke listing, right? Anyone who buys this, or worse yet, actually thinks that they are worth $50K+, needs to have their dose of Haldol upped. Some things are so inane that they either beg or be mocked, or fall into the "purchasing"realm of the incredibly ignorant. You could outfit the best home recording studio in the world for way less than this Objet d'Art...this tribute to stupidity and concupiscence. These are possibly competitors for charter membership in the "Jay Leno More Money Than Brains Club."

Better move fast though...there is only one pair left.

EDIT: Better yet, check this out...with the exception of the idiot-attracting glass...these are the fraternal twins of the Atohm SIROCCO 2-0, which has an MSRP of $2,995 each.

3 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars You'll not get what you are paying for..., January 4, 2012

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Raymond Brokke "Ray" (Heredia, Costa Rica) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Waterfall Audio "Niagara" Diamond Glass Floor Standing Loudspeakers - Pair (Electronics)

Well, I guess this offer pretends to shoot Amazon's customers and wait what shoots down. There isn't anyone -at our physical level of development- capable to build a laminated-transparent real diamond glass. By now, it's not possible, non practical and -economically- a wastage in resources to build a "diamond" cage. Moreover, the hypothetical sound produced through that kind of fictitious media would be incredibly strident, unpleasant and refractory and what we're looking for -as a good sound produced by a resonance box (like a a speaker box) - involves a cage capable to partially absorb a wide range of frequencies, bounce them back to the front and lateral/internal wave-shaped walls of a speaker and reproduce an amplified warm-real sound with a minimum of loss in frequencies (Note: You cannot get this effect with a crystal or a "diamond" cage). To the best of my knowledge, only some especially processed and well sculptured hard woods have the particular properties to produce that kind of sound. I'm astonished the way some e-stores accept some kind of vendors in their Market Place$$!