World’s Biggest iPod Speaker Available for Pre-Order

By Leander Kahney (2:54 pm, Nov 02 2009)

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It’s for “people who believe that music should be listened to loudly,” the company’s website says. “It looks frightening, and it IS frightening.”

Handmade by a company called by Brothers of Stockholm, the first edition of this monster speaker is sold out, so the company is taking pre-orders for a second gen speaker. Only $4,495.00 — sign up here.

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Rats Repus
It’s not as impressive when you convert to inches and notice that it’s a Nano iPod in the dock.
H 37.4″ W 49.2″ D 11.8″
Weight 224.8 lbs
125Watts
Not worth $4495
toke lahti
Tube amplified?!
Has to be joke…
Michael
Excellent for my Grateful Dead play list.
http://kinsleydale.com brookshanes
LOLz
Welcome to the 60′s… again. All we’re missing is the wood grain cabbies. And a sense of humor.
mikeylee
Tubes are sweet. I have a buddy who runs his mac mini audio through a tube amp and it sounds superb!! It is too bad the price of admission is so high. :(
Luxlamf
Pre Ordered!!!!! Dont Show your ignorance if you Haven’t heard a Tube powered Amp and only know to chips today, its the difference between real Sugar and Corn Syrup.
FJ Opus
Yeah it’s big – but can it go to 11??
http://ipodmarket.com.au iPod Round Up
$4,495.00 for an ipod speaker? Anyone? hmm… i thought so…
Porkchop1234
Apparently there aren’t a lot of audiophiles in this forum. A tube amplified speaker is by far superior then any other kind of speaker on the market. A tube speaker is able to generate a deeper warmer sound and also will have a deeper more fully developed and richer sound with no sound distortion in both bass or treble no matter how loud its cranked then any off the rack conical driven speaker could ever hope to have. Any audiophile worth his salt will choose a tube amplified speaker over a mass market conical speaker.
As for the price I don’t know anything about Brothers of Stockholm so I can’t really comment about whether their product is worth the money or not but a high end tube driven speaker can run as high as 10 000 plus a speaker and as low as 5000 on the low end. For a die hard audiophile 4500 for a speaker is a drop in the bucket so the price isn’t as outrageous if you look at it from an audiophiles point of view. As I said though I’ve never heard of this company before and I would have to actually hear the speaker to render judgment.
If the company is trying to cater to audiophiles with ipods I think its a lost cause for the simple reason true audiophiles don’t use ipods to truly appreciate their music. They use full blown costly stereo system set ups that can run anywhere from 20 000 on the low end to well over 100 000 on the high end plus the playing media of choice is always vinyl. AAC and MP3 are dirty words in the audiophile world.
If you guys want to see what I mean I suggest you check out the following site below as an example of what I’m talking about. McIntosh audio is my favorite system and I dream of one day having one of their systems in my home. They bring incredible bang for the buck in that a 20 or 30 000 McIntosh system can and has been able to outshine some of the more pricier systems which run as high as 70 000 bucks.
http://www.mcintoshlabs.com/
toke lahti
Can you “real” adiophiles tell how to drive 28 speakers (16 of them big bass speakers) with one tiny little tube amp? 125 watts total from that tiny amp? Or is there amp for each speaker? Gimme a break. And they advertise this “loud”?
Porkchop1234
(shakes head)
When I was talking about tube speakers I was speaking in general terms and not commenting specifically about the wall of sound speaker. Don’t be such a loud mouth and the next time you decide to post try reading the whole discussion thread so you don’t come off as a retarded 14 year old. Shheshhh