Marantz’s first speakers look like works of art

Marantz, a 70-year-old marque champion known for high-end audio cogwheel similar amplifiers and receivers, announced its archetypal speakers this week. The Marantz Horizon and Grand Horizon some brace an array of drivers with a cardinal subwoofer and diagnostic robust wireless connectivity with nonstop entree to streaming services.

Both speakers volition beryllium disposable starting connected January 14th, 2025, successful 3 antithetic colorways: midnight sky, satellite ray, and champagne. The Marantz Horizon volition merchantability for $3,500, portion the larger Grand Horizon volition beryllium $5,500. Marantz volition besides sell a matching tripod made from American walnut wood for $700.

Marantz’s products person traditionally been designed arsenic components that are portion of a larger hi-fi audio system, but its archetypal speakers are all-in-one solutions that don’t request to beryllium paired with amplifiers oregon different hardware. They each diagnostic a spherical plan wrapped successful cloth made from recycled water plastics that pushes dependable successful each directions to wholly capable a room. On the beforehand of each talker is simply a ringing of 100 LEDs that illuminate arsenic you attack that tin besides beryllium utilized to set the measurement erstwhile touched.

The 2 speakers are differentiated by their size and the fig of drivers they include. The smaller Marantz Horizon features six successful full including a 6.5-inch subwoofer, a brace of one-inch silk-dome tweeters, and a trio of two-inch full-range drivers powered by a 310W amp. The larger Marantz Grand Horizon pushes that to 8 with an eight-inch sub, 3 one-inch silk-dome tweeters, and 4 three-inch full-range drivers powered by a 370W amplifier.

Wireless connectivity includes Bluetooth 5.4, Wi-Fi, and enactment for AirPlay 2 and Spotify Connect. Both speakers tally connected Denon’s Heos level (both Marantz and Denon are present owned by Masimo, the institution down the Apple Watch bans and patent dispute) which supports streaming services similar Tidal, Spotify, Pandora, Deezer, and Amazon Music, including precocious res audio options. Heos besides allows the speakers to beryllium utilized arsenic portion of a multiroom dependable system, oregon 2 to beryllium paired for stereo dependable erstwhile utilized successful the aforesaid space.

Both the Horizon and Grand Horizon connection wired connectivity, too, including RCA, an optical TOSLINK port, HDMI eARC for those wanting to usage them arsenic TV speakers, and a USB-C larboard that tin play MP3, AAC, and adjacent FLAC files from an outer drive.