Specimen Little Horn Speakers
When I was first introduced to these home speakers, I couldn’t tell if they were sculptures or actually speakers. At three feet tall, the pair of octoganally fluted horns stand atop an eight inch baltic birch cube, which houses the driver. The opening of the horn is just over a foot wide and is designed to allow the sounds that are played through it to naturally separate, similar to the way you hear things when you see music live. All speakers are made to order, allowing the customer an array of color and finish combinations, adding to the psychedelic appearance of the speakers. There’s a small selection of other audiophile products on the Specimen website, including some documentation of the custom amplification they have done for Andrew Bird. But with these little guys punching in at clean $1850 a pair, I don’t know that my aspirations to acquire any more than them would be healthy for me and my pocket book.
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