Unusual Speaker Designs

[Djizasse]

I was searching for unnusual speaker designs and I found a few. Some well know, others not so well (at least for me). Enjoy

17 Cool Speakers Designs that Look Better than They Sound

The wide world of weird speakers

IZ Crazy speakers

Xount

Thin Plasma Speakers

34 Funky speaker designs

Anthony Gallo

 

[jamie2112]

Those are some funky looking speakers

 

[Halon451]

I have a hard time believing those huge glass horn speakers sound good enough to make them worth the wacky aesthetic that the owner in this case is obviously shooting for.

OTOH, interesting collection of designs - sure is a lot of imagination out there...

 

[Pyrrho]

Either some of those designs sound incredibly dreadful, or the person naming the article "17 Cool Speakers Designs that Look Better than They Sound" has very different taste than I do. Some of those, in my opinion, are hideous looking.

Anyway, thanks for the links, as they are interesting.

 

[Phil Taylor]

I like the looks of the little wooden orbs in the first link. Some weird designs in there for sure.

 

[Djizasse]

I could do this one:

Salad Bowl Speakers

 

[Djizasse]

Everything But The Box

Check the site for more wonderful weirdness.

 

[jliedeka]

The Sputnik has a sort of bondage aesthetic to it that appealing in a weird way. Wake up the gimp.

Jim

 

[just-some-guy]

get a load of this. video

http://www.wimp.com/plasmaspeaker/

 

[mudrummer99]

I hope that is for real. That is quite possibly the coolest thing I have every seen.

Mike

 

[Davemcc]

I like the Everthing But The Box designs. These are cool.

 

[sploo]

I like the Everthing But The Box designs. These are cool.

No... they're terrible.

Why? Because I've spent ages working on some techniques to produce speakers just like that, and now I find someone has already done it!

Repeat mantra to self... mine will look better... mine will look better... (assuming I ever actually make some)

 

[Djizasse]

get a load of this. video

http://www.wimp.com/plasmaspeaker/

Take a look at the DIY tutorial:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Build_A_Plasma_Speaker/

 

[Deadeye]

There used to be a speaker known as the Hill Plasmatronic. It used a plasma tweeter. You needed a tank of Nitrogen to feed the Plasma. There also used to be the Fane Ionovac Tweeter which was also a plasma design. You can sometimes find them in garage sales. The Fane's that is.
The Hill's were megabuck speakers and are rarely found on the used market.

 

[Djizasse]

Urban Fidelity

And the Plasmatronic:

 

[highfigh]

get a load of this. video

http://www.wimp.com/plasmaspeaker/

It showed that the guy "invented" a plasma speaker- Voice of Music had them in the '50s.

 

[Djizasse]

I've posted this at the Youtube thread, but as they're weird, it best to save them here as well.

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Dr. Zeus likes to play with them

Ok, he's not playing anything, he's just there for show.