14 DAY TRIAL // We've been talking about speakers for a long time now, and I don't what to mislead the people who try to do their absolute best in their living room. It's not necessarily the speakers themselves that make your living room look awesome... not even if you'd live on Soundgear Maniacs' Planet.
It's light that plays a major role in creating the atmosphere you're after; if the light's OK then adding some sound will make things simply great.
I've been telling you about lava lamp-speakers, painting speakers, book-like speakers, clock speakers and so on: I guess there is no limit to where people might put a speaker or two and I am really looking forward to see new crazy stuff.
Nevertheless, since we agreed that light should be mixed with sound, I am quite glad to see that some manufacturer went forward and mixed them properly.
Soundolier has joined the larger by the week number of sound designers who are camouflaging speakers in the weirdest places around your house. Unlike others, Soundolier managed to hide some blasters in the ever-present floor lamp - and if you ask me, in some very nice -looking floor lamps.
Maybe this is the key: using the most common and most likely to fit anywhere objects as housing for the speakers. Nevertheless, Soundolier has pulled off a very nice job inserting some 5-1/4" full range speakers in the cone of the lamp in a way nobody would ever guess: the support for the actual lamp (light bulb and all the things) is coming from the middle of the speaker! Weird but effective as the sound is uniformly spread, technically covering the entire room.
Running on 4 interference-free channels and in the 2.4 GHz range, the Soundolier DUO "speaker-lamps" can also work in the wired mode so they get analog signal from sources like your iPod, CD pplayer and stuff.
For $280 each and another $80 for the wireless transmitter you can add some true class to your (less traditional) living room. To all these, add light-dimmer control an the possibility to add a subwoofer. Happy now? I really am!
