Marantz’s first speakers look like works of art

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

Both speakers will beryllium disposable starting connected January 14th, 2025, successful 3 different colorways: midnight sky, satellite ray, and champagne. The Marantz Horizon will waste for $3,500, while the larger Grand Horizon will beryllium $5,500. Marantz will 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 first speakers are all-in-one solutions that don’t request to beryllium paired pinch amplifiers aliases different hardware. They each characteristic a spherical creation wrapped successful cloth made from recycled water plastics that pushes sound successful each directions to wholly capable a room. On the beforehand of each speaker 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 number 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 pinch 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 support for AirPlay 2 and Spotify Connect. Both speakers tally connected Denon’s Heos level (both Marantz and Denon are now owned by Masimo, the institution down the Apple Watch bans and patent dispute) which supports streaming services for illustration 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 sound system, aliases 2 to beryllium paired for stereo sound 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 moreover FLAC files from an outer drive.