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Thursday March 15, 2007
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Want more artsy-fartsy, vaguely Latin-sounding Art.Lebedev products--perhaps a peripheral that won't cost as much as your PC?
Well, you're in luck if the company can manage to meet a release date for once. The Sonicum 2.1 Speaker System is set to go on sale on May 7 and can be preordered now for a mere $78, if you do so by April 6. After that, be prepared to shell out almost twice as much. Admittedly, the Sonicum is pretty standard fare: two 15-watt speakers, a subwoofer, and an external power adapter. But check this out: the speakers are shaped like...speaker icons!
Further proof that clever design often trumps technical innovation and muscle? Perhaps. Still, I wouldn't mind hooking up these bad boys to my computer.
Post by Bryan Gardiner
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March 15, 2007 11:51 PM
Yeah, but the whole design part of it isn't going to be visible unless you turn the speakers sideways. Put them at the back of your desk and point them forward, like you would any other speakers, and they'll look like just about any other generic speaker: a tilted black rectangle. For a design studio, they seemed have kind of missed a fairly glacier-sized design flaw.
Well, you know what they say about forests and trees...
March 16, 2007 10:24 AM
::giggle:: If you have a really nice desk you might be able to angle them so you can see them, I suppose.
And remember Matt, not everyone's eye for design is for themselves, some folks buy things specifically designed to make other people look and go "ooh!"
I...can't say I'm one of those people, but still! In the eye of the beholder and all that. ;)