In normal cases, speakers are meant to be heard and not seen. After all, their primary purpose is to convey sound, hopefully of fine quality. But speakers are products that take up space in any room, and their presence could very well make or break the atmosphere you’ve set up through carefully curated designs and colors. Sound itself has a kind of subtle visual quality to it, generated in our minds through the emotions they evoke, so why shouldn’t speakers?
Speaker design has vastly improved in recent years now they have truly become mainstays in our homes, but some brands have been pushing luxurious designs for decades now. One of those is coming out with a limited run of its existing speakers, giving the Beosound 2 a bit more expressiveness through the use of striking combinations of colors.
Designer: Bang & Olufsen
“Club”
The Beosound 2 itself is already quite the looker on its own. Eschewing the customary cylindrical shape, the conical 360-degree speaker also wholly embraces the use of aluminum, polished to a shine to give it a lustrous finish. It already commands a striking presence, but Bang & Olufsen believes it can definitely do better.
Capitalizing on the link between sound, emotions, and colors, the Beosound 2 Gradient collection offers a blend of colors that flawlessly transition into each other, just like how emotions and music flow from one moment to the next. The collection includes “colors” such as brown Baritone, jelly Jam, and electrifying Riff, among other moods conveyed through sound. Whether these compositions truly match your image of these emotions or not, there’s no denying they will definitely spark some feelings upon seeing their unique aesthetic.
“Baritone”
“Jam”
“Riff”
The Beosound 2 Gradient, however, is just as much a demonstration of the marque’s design abilities as it is its audio expertise. Anodized to perfection and crafted to have the colors effortlessly flow, the speakers represent Bang & Olufsen’s Atelier program, inviting customers and designers to create their own styling options and send them in. If it can pull this off with this collection, then it can do almost anything.
Beautiful as they may be, these gradient speakers won’t be around for long. There are only 10 color combinations available and B&O will only make 10 of each as well. In other words, there will only be a total of 100 Beosound 2 Gradient speakers ever made. That magic number happens to coincide with Bang & Olufsen’s 100th anniversary this year, marking its heritage of combining technical audio prowess with unmatched style.
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