Brutalist architecture inspired this blocky wireless speaker

The plan of Transparent’s latest wireless talker looks similar the implicit other of the glass-enclosed see-through speakers that helped primitively motorboat the brand. The $4,000 Brutalist speaker is made from aluminum, and though it stands astir 23-inches gangly successful person, without discourse it could beryllium easy mistaken for a minimalist bureau operation designed by an designer inactive inspired by Britain’s post-war architectural style.

Transparent’s talker features a brace of three-inch tweeters positioned astatine 90-degree angles that enactment alongside a 6.5-inch subwoofer positioned connected the other broadside of them. The institution suggests its plan is astir effectual astatine filling a country with dependable erstwhile the talker is positioned successful a country truthful dependable tin bounce disconnected walls, but wherever you presumption it you’ll privation to marque definite an outlet is adjacent due to the fact that it doesn’t person a battery. At 26.5 lbs, it’s already dense enough.

The talker tin watercourse audio from devices implicit Bluetooth 5.2, but it besides has Wi-Fi and supports Apple’s AirPlay 2, Tidal Connect, Spotify Connect, and Amazon Music. A brace of 3.5mm inputs let different audio sources to link with a cable, and portion it’s compatible with Amazon’s Alexa, the Brutalist talker doesn’t person its ain microphone, limiting the usefulness of the astute assistant’s integration.

Transparent spent 3 years processing the Brutalist speaker, but a batch of the challenges really came from its determination to marque it utilizing 70 percent post-consumer recycled aluminum. “Of course, we spent a batch of clip successful manufacturing to cleanable each of the antithetic modules coming unneurotic good and ensuring everything sounds great, but actually, the sourcing of the recycled aluminum for the furniture hasn’t been easy,” Per Brickstad, Transparent’s originative director, told Wired.