Stone is a material that’s been considered a luxury item ever since man learned how to carve it. In today’s modern world it’s still considered a luxury item. People to this day still pay good money to get a marble countertop in their kitchen, so you know stone will most likely always be the "in" thing.
In the tech world there’s not too much made from stone (not for consumers, anyway) for the reason it simply isn’t practical – but then again, luxury isn’t about being practical at all.
A true-luxury tech item is the speaker enclosure made of stone. Audio Masons have a few models available, all carved from Indiana Limestone. And yes, the enclosures are all carved right here in the USA (in Indiana, Michigan and Ohio specifically).
Your next question is, "HOW MUCH?" There’s nothing they sell for under $1,000.
Your next question is, "Do they sound any good?" Of course they do. The drivers used are aluminum/titanium and are ultra-premium for proper frequency response; the web site explains in detail exactly the drivers are capable of producing.
Worth it? That’s up for you to decide, but you have to admit that stone-carved speaker enclosures scream pure luxury.
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Wow! Those are gorgeous but too pricey for me.
They “rock”. Ha ha.. bad pun.. boo hiss…
For those guys with Significant others– if she has a secret desire to kill you, this item will make that desire resurface with vengeance.
Consider, Women STILL haven’t REALLY gotten over the Male urge to get 50+” Flatscreens TV, they had to give it up in the face to Marching technology. Face it– if Womanhood had their way, we’d ALL still be watching our Parent’s Hand-me-down largescreen tube TV’s.
But a Stone-Carved Speaker. . .which comes in Pairs?
Oh no-no-no-no, she will say. No-no-no-no, dear, we have to TALK about this!
Why? she will ask. Why?
What’s the point? she will ask.
What if I need to Move it and I hurt myself? She will say.
Isn’t the iPod Speaker Dock I got you for Christmas enough? she will query
How could you spend that kind of money on such a . . .pointless thing? she will wail.
Don’t you care what I think? She will demand.
Then she will give in sullenly and hold it against you for at least 5 years– during which she will pointedly move the furniture in that room every 9 months, forcing you to risk a hernia every time. . .
And if you DO get a hernia, she’ll just snort derisively at you on the way to the Hospital. . .because “I told you so. . .”
How sexist! – We’re not all menopausal u know. Personally I love flatscreen TVs, and it’d be much easier to kill a chauvinist pig with a heavy largescreen tube-TV than with a stone speaker, because if it were damaged in the process then it’d be time to go out and buy a flatscreen set anyway – so no big loss. :S.
As a speaker design it’s terrible, tweeter and mid-range need to be at ear level, sharp edges will cause diffraction. I wonder if they even put some other material inside to dampen the walls of the enclosure, stone would be very unforgiving.
I can’t imagine putting a very heavy stone speaker with tapered legs like that on a hardwood floor.