Solid Block of Ise

I hadn’t really planned on writing anything more here today, but I just found something that warranted a warming-up of the blog editor.

(cue the nostalgic music)

A little background information: One of my earliest interests was music, and with that interest followed an interest in hifi-equipment. This grew to a slight obsession in my teens, and I built a pretty impressive subwoofer with the help of my father when I was fifteen. After that the passion slightly mellowed, and in later years my fascination for hifi has been coupled with my interest for movies and morphed into an interest for home cinema-systems.

Ironically though I’ve never owned a high-class system since I’ve always been short on one of many required things, the first and foremost a steady cash-flow. I own an almost decent home cinema-system now, and I assure you that if money wasn’t a problem for me I would invest heavily in more of that. I really enjoy listening to music on a good system as well, so I definitely still have a deep interest in hifi.

And thus I was greatly intrigued when I read about a speaker system called simply “Planets” from a company called Duevel. They’re very non-traditional in their design, and apparently they’re designed to spread the sound evenly through a room. This is one thing I’ve noticed with many speakers is that they sound awesome when set up properly and when you’re sitting in the right place, but anywhere else they sound rather washed out. The Planets apparently want to correct this, and they bill themselves as perfect party-speakers as well as excellent home cinema-speakers due to the way they distribute the sound. Also, they’re fairly cheap as far as hifi-equipment goes; a pair of them will set you back about US$1300. Hell, if I saved a bit that would even be within my range.

But the first thing that you notice about them is the way they look. They sure don’t look like conventional speakers.

I’d love to have a listen to them. If they sound half as good as they look I’d happily invest in them somehow. For the fashion-conscious they’re available in different colors. I didn’t care much for the more garish colors (bright red? wtf?) but the black or gunmetal-gray looked pretty decent in my eyes. Check out their page for a picture of all the available colors.

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