Stockholm-based audio model Clear has a little bit of a behavior of constructing 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, nicely, 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 Fifties, identified for its easy, geometric strains and championing of uncooked supplies over ornamental extra.
As an alternative of the tempered glass utilized in a variety of 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 quite strikingly at elevated 90-degree angles, it laughs within the face of conventional speaker design.
“Though we’re most identified for our clear assortment of merchandise, that’s not the reasoning behind our identify,” Per Brickstad, artistic director at Clear, tells WIRED. “It’s about our total strategy to honesty in design, and the way we wish 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 achieved a earlier undertaking on a restricted launch known as the Acoustic Sculpture, which is an natural sculptural speaker that is impressed by the human ear. We had 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 type—you do not know if these buildings are from one other planet or from Earth. Nevertheless it additionally lends itself nicely to positioning elements for acoustic efficiency too.”
