Hasta La Gadget!

You’d think that making a speaker from hard, brittle porcelain would result in an equally splintered, frangible sound. Apparently, though, according to Joonsoo Kim and Jungyou Choi of Joon & Jung, it lends the sound a resonance, a “natural vibe and ambiance,” which lends music some properties of acoustic instruments.

This is the thinking behind their Natural Speaker, hand made from porcelain and a fagot-like bundle of sticks which produces a resonance chamber. The internals are shaped to allow sound to bounce around before exiting, and the exterior looks beautiful in un-smoothed, unglazed porcelain. This lovely video shows the hand-made construction (complete with an oddly violent reverse-smashing section in the middle).

If nothing else, these speakers look wonderful, and there’s something enticing about speakers that are individually tuned, no matter how serendipitous that tuning might be. The Natural Speakers can be ordered now. And the price? If you have to ask…

Natural Speakers product page [Joon & Jung via Core77]

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