Clear’s New Wi-fi Speaker Is a Love Letter to Brutalism

Stockholm-based audio model Clear has a little bit of a behavior of creating 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, effectively, 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 1950s, identified for its easy, geometric strains and championing of uncooked supplies over ornamental extra.

As a substitute of the tempered glass utilized in numerous its different merchandise, Clear’s Brutalist Speaker is constructed from 70 % post-consumer recycled aluminum. With its 6.5-inch side-mounted woofer, alongside twin 3-inch tweeters, positioned somewhat strikingly at elevated 90-degree angles, it laughs within the face of conventional speaker design.

“Although we’re most identified for our clear assortment of merchandise, that’s not the reasoning behind our identify,” Per Brickstad, inventive director at Clear, tells WIRED. “It’s about our total method to honesty in design, and the way we wish to be seen by our prospects. So we’ve got been exploring varied supplies and the other ways we will manifest that design philosophy in new initiatives.

“We had carried out a earlier mission 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 method.

“We had been Brutalism fairly a bit as a result of it is such a mesmerizing architectural fashion—you do not know if these buildings are from one other planet or from Earth. However it additionally lends itself effectively to positioning parts for acoustic efficiency too.”