Sweden's Teenage Engineering is arguably best known for its mini synthesizers called Pocket Operators, but has been pushing design envelopes in other areas too. A collaboration with RISE researchers has yielded a loudspeaker encased in a kind of white wood that stays white as it ages.
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Late last year, high-end audio brand McIntosh revealed a new flagship loudspeaker, the XRT2.1.K, priced at US$130,000. Now the company has announced a slightly less powerful version that's also less than half the price.
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McIntosh says that it's tapped into over 45 years of loudspeaker manufacture know-how to create a pair of 7 ft high audiophile pleasers. The XRT2.1K full-range speakers feature a total of 81 drivers for the promise of "spacious sound reproduction with an unusually deep sound stage."
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Speaker cabinets are usually made from wood or, for penny pinching, plastic – though we have seen speakers made using other materials like glass and concrete. Michele Gastaldello and Giacomo Munari mix Italian design with good old-fashioned stone masonry for their Stones Speakers line.
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Many of the tech enhancements from B&W's top-of-the-line 800 Diamond Series have been handed down to a new, cheaper generation of speakers. But even the least expensive 700 series speaker will still set you back $1,200 a pair.
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Messages announced over train station loudspeakers are notorious for being unintelligible. Germany's Fraunhofer Institute is trying to do something about it, however. It's developed new audio-enhancement software, which might even find use in smartphones.
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A research team from Cornell University's Creative Machines Lab has managed to 3D print the cone, coil and magnet of a loudspeaker, and then use it to throw out sounds from a digital audio player.
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Bowers & Wilkins has revealed a weatherproof loudspeaker named the AM-1 Architectural Monitor.
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Marshall Headphones and Zound Industries have unveiled the Hanwell, a new Marshall-branded active loudspeaker headed for discerning living rooms in the near future.
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