Sony’s Glass Column Speakers May 16, 2007

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Sony’s been experimenting recently with what it hopes might become the new trend in home audio. These glass columns rise vertically from a marble column in the floor, emitting sound in all directions. The marketing material says it much prettier than me so here you go:

“The radiating sound defines the space through which it propagates-like ripples produced by a stone dropped in a pond.”

Dubbed, ‘Rin’, this concept is the result of an alliance between Sony Craft and Master Craft Lombardia in Italy. Marble is becoming more widely used these days in speaker products – just check out the new B&W Signature Diamond speakers – and, while I like the idea of glass speakers rising out of the ground, they’d last about a day before they were accidentally destroyed.

From the photo though, you can see that Sony still has to work out some snags with volume levels. -Martin Lynch

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