Transparent's New Wireless Speaker Is a Love Letter to Brutalism

Stockholm-based audio marque Transparent has a spot of a wont of making wireless speakers that look alternatively different to the remainder of the market. But its latest bold instrumentality connected talker plan is thing of a departure from its much well-known and, well, transparent roots, and a task into caller shapes and materials for the brand.

The Brutalist Speaker takes its notation from a benignant of architecture that originated successful the UK successful the 1950s, known for its simple, geometric lines and championing of earthy materials implicit decorative excess.

Instead of the tempered solid utilized successful a fig of its different products, Transparent's Brutalist Speaker is made from 70 percent post-consumer recycled aluminum. With its 6.5-inch side-mounted woofer, alongside dual 3-inch tweeters, placed alternatively strikingly astatine elevated 90-degree angles, it laughs successful the look of accepted talker design.

“Even though we are astir known for our transparent postulation of products, that is not the reasoning down our name," Per Brickstad, originative manager astatine Transparent, tells WIRED. "It’s astir our wide attack to honesty successful design, and however we privation to beryllium seen by our customers. So we person been exploring assorted materials and the antithetic ways we tin manifest that plan doctrine successful caller projects.

“We had done a erstwhile task connected a constricted merchandise called the Acoustic Sculpture, which is an integrated sculptural talker that's inspired by the quality ear. We were keen to bash different talker successful this category, but 1 that relates much intimately to our minimalistic plan approach.

“We had been looking astatine Brutalism rather a spot due to the fact that it's specified a mesmerizing architectural style—you don't cognize if these buildings are from different satellite oregon from Earth. But it besides lends itself good to positioning components for acoustic show too.”