By Jon Porter
Every audio brand under the sun likes to claim that their products seamlessly blend form and function, but the BeoSound Shape are quite unlike anything we’ve seen before.
At first glance the sound system looks like an art installation. It’s a cluster of hexagonal tiles, arranged as you see fit to achieve a balance of cost, sound-quality, and wall space that suits your wall, and that acts as a speaker to fill your house with sound.
Stand at one angle and the tiles appear to be simple flat hexagons, but look at them head on and their design forces an optical illusion that makes them look like fully three-dimensional cubes.
A tile for every occasion
Contained within the muted Scandinavian colors are a number of different tile types. You’ve got some hexagons working as speakers, others as amps, cores, sound dampeners and some are completely empty.
You can expand the system up to a maximum of 44 speakers (a configuration that requires 11 amps), but with a basic four speaker setup retailing for £3,400 (around $4,400 or AU$5,900) we suspect only commercial spaces will get anywhere near this size of setup.
Although it contains four speakers, the minimum setup actually …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac
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