Brutalist architecture inspired this blocky wireless speaker

The creation of Transparent’s latest wireless speaker looks for illustration the complete 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 agency building designed by an designer still inspired by Britain’s post-war architectural style.

Transparent’s speaker features a brace of three-inch tweeters positioned astatine 90-degree angles that activity alongside a 6.5-inch subwoofer positioned connected the other broadside of them. The institution suggests its creation is astir effective astatine filling a room pinch sound erstwhile the speaker is positioned successful a area truthful sound tin bounce disconnected walls, but wherever you position it you’ll want to make judge an outlet is adjacent because it doesn’t person a battery. At 26.5 lbs, it’s already dense enough.

The speaker tin watercourse audio from devices complete 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 pinch a cable, and while it’s compatible pinch Amazon’s Alexa, the Brutalist speaker doesn’t person its ain microphone, limiting the usefulness of the smart assistant’s integration.

Transparent spent 3 years processing the Brutalist speaker, but a batch of the challenges really came from its determination to make it utilizing 70 percent post-consumer recycled aluminum. “Of course, we spent a batch of clip successful manufacturing to cleanable each of the different modules coming together 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 imaginative director, told Wired.