The Waterdrop Pyramidal Alien Spaceship Speakers? Yes, the Fohenz.

Well, I have no intention to be mean this morning, especially as I woke up in a great mood, rode by motorbike to work and enjoyed an ice-cold cup of coffee but I just feel there is something fishy to the new Fohenz loudspeakers. The Fohenz Aqua FA-350 is a set of 2.1 speakers that truly look weird... weird as in very nice, but still weird: they are shaped like water drops and look more like some sort of alien device you'd usually expect to see in the Jetsons or other "space age" old toons.

These droplets come with a nifty glossy finish in black or white and if we look at them as a design exercise, things are pretty cool. Placing them in a very modern home d?cor would make a great addition to those who enjoy such shapes: as for matching these speakers in other, more conservative-looking rooms, forget about it.

This 2.1 system runs on down-firing drivers which use the surface they stand on as a dispersion plate and thus are 360-degrees sound field capable. Everything would be really nice if it weren't for the very thick grille at the bottom of these speakers - I mean, there are a lot of speakers with massive grilles but they are also quite powerful (which is not the case with the Fohenz Aqua FA-350)... I am somewhat afraid that a good deal of the produced sound is altered by that grille.

Well, another thing that's really fishy and makes me think of dumb pirated audio gear such as Powasonic, Panasoanic, Somy or other similar crap... the RMS power of the Fohenz Aqua FA-350 is 1.2W per channel and 2.5W for the subwoofer, yet the P.M.P.O. Rating is a dementing 1,500W! C'mooon people, do the maths... that's plain bulls**t, you should have stuck to the initial 5W story and I guess you'd have had more to gain. As for the rest, the specs are looking OK, in case they're true: 60-16,000Hz frequency range, mic and aux inputs and a signal to noise ration over 70dB.

My personal opinion on the Fohenz Aqua FA-350... if you have $22 and you don't know what t do with it, you can go and buy these speakers, at least for the sake of the looks.

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