The world’s most beautiful loudspeakers

One glimpse of Gramopone is all you need to see that it is an exclusive Hi-Fi loudspeaker, 1.2 metres high and handmade of carbon fibre and stainless steel.

The founder of the manufacturing company Aesthesis, had a dream to develop the ultimate speakers. He contacted Ergonomidesign, who has profound experience working with carbon fibre in earlier projects, in particular while designing the super sports car for Koenigsegg.

Having received a brief to bring a more intriguing, avant-garde and sensual product to the market without compromising with sound or picture quality, the design team from Ergonomidesign, developed the extreme design behind Gramophone. The vision was to create a pair of extra-ordinary speakers inspired by an old gramophone, and at the same time adding a modern touch to this classic form. The designers’ goal was to find an esthetical and functional balance, to give the speakers the right expression and sensation.

The design team gave it a retro feeling, at the same time as it is very innovative and modern in its appearance and performance. It’s a good mix between the old-fashioned and the contemporary. No compromises were made: high quality materials and handmade production in combination with forms and shapes that generate the best possible sound. In this case the form really is the prerequisite for superior function and performance.

The exceptionally high requirements on finish and tolerance demanded that everything from making of the parts to coating and assembling was handmade. The attention to detail has been immaculate - from the overall sound quality right down to each and every component.

The result, Gramophone, integrates several sound improving features in an eye-catching design. The form and shape plays a central role for the sound characteristics of Gramophone. At the heart of the design is a full range coaxial driver in order to reproduce the whole frequency range from a point source and minimize phase differences. The very specifically curved horn in which the coaxial driver is placed amplifies the higher frequencies and the open cabinet amplifies the lower frequencies mechanically. These features of the cabinet make it possible to create a more powerful sound without distortion than would otherwise be possible. Also, echoes are damped very effectively by the way the cabinet narrows.

Gramophone is made to be truly exclusive speakers; hence they will only be made in a numbered, limited series of a hundred pairs. The standard color of the cabinet is black but it can be customized to the demanding customer to any Natural Color System color desired. The speakers has received a lot of attention in design press and blogs all over the world. According to Wallpaper, the Gramophone speaker units are on the brink of sound barrier breaking innovation, with an expression somewhere between a high-design orchid and upturned 1940’s sound system.