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

Stockholm-based audio model Clear has a little bit of a behavior of creating wireless speakers that look rather different to the remainder of the market. However its newest daring tackle speaker design is one thing of a departure from its extra well-known and, properly, clear roots, and a enterprise into new shapes and supplies for the model.

The Brutalist Speaker takes its reference from a method of structure that originated within the UK within the Nineteen Fifties, recognized for its easy, geometric strains and championing of uncooked supplies over ornamental extra.

As a substitute of the tempered glass utilized in numerous its different merchandise, Clear’s Brutalist Speaker is produced from 70 p.c post-consumer recycled aluminum. With its 6.5-inch side-mounted woofer, alongside twin 3-inch tweeters, positioned moderately strikingly at elevated 90-degree angles, it laughs within the face of conventional speaker design.

The Brutalist Speaker takes its inspiration from the architectural design it’s named after.

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“Despite the fact that we’re most recognized for our clear assortment of merchandise, that’s not the reasoning behind our title,” Per Brickstad, artistic director at Clear, tells WIRED. “It’s about our general strategy to honesty in design, and the way we need to be seen by our prospects. So we now have been exploring varied supplies and the alternative ways we are able to manifest that design philosophy in new initiatives.

“We had finished a earlier venture on a restricted launch known as the Acoustic Sculpture, which is an natural sculptural speaker that is impressed by the human ear. We have been eager to do one other speaker on this class, however one which relates extra carefully to our minimalistic design strategy.

“We had been Brutalism fairly a bit as a result of it is such a mesmerizing architectural model—you do not know if these buildings are from one other planet or from Earth. But it surely additionally lends itself properly to positioning parts for acoustic efficiency too.”