No, this is not one of those vacuum tubes you used to see at bank drive throughs. It's the Sony Sountina, a high-concept, glass-tube speaker on display at the Internationale Funkaustellung Consumer Electronics Trade Fair in Berlin last week. It is a multi-directional speaker that apparently retails at $10,000.
I have no idea how it works or sounds, but it looks fantastic so I just wanted to pass it on. It's always neat when high-end sound and visuals come together.
If you want to read more about it try crunchgear and engaget or Sony.com. And again...keep the sopranos and their wine-glass shattering high notes away from this one...
Photo credit: John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images
Posted
Sep 03 2008, 01:52 PM
by
Andrew Druckenbrod