Embrace the future of audio with The A speaker
Listen to death metal or watch a film that only you can hear with a ground-breaking new speaker that’s gearing up to redefine your personal audio experience
At T3, we all think we have the best music taste in the world. But if that’s the case, why do we get into so many verbals over the songs that are played through our shared Bluetooth speaker? If you’ve found yourself in a situation where the music you’ve been listening to, or the sound from the film you’ve been watching, has annoyed or distracted someone nearby, we feel your pain. Thankfully, a new speaker from Akoustic Arts could cut us all a break… The company’s A speaker has already won awards, even though it’s still in the pre-order stage. A directional audio device, it pumps out high-fidelity sound only you can hear, by emitting a narrow beam of sound targeting a specific ‘zone’.
Say, for example, you’re hanging out in your bedroom with your partner, and they want to watch a film but you want to listen to music without wearing headphones. You can position the A speaker so that the beam of sound targets only you; your partner won’t hear a thing, as the directional-sound-control technology diminishes overspill and noise pollution.
While, as an audio-loving tech mag, we’d never endorse Akoustic Arts’ playful “no more headphones” campaign, that doesn’t stop us from fancying their new speaker something rotten. Maybe they’ll be up for kitting us out with a few so that we don’t need to suffer any more “Kenny Loggins is a god/No, Kenny Loggins is shite” arguments in the T3 office.
Start your adventure today
The A speaker is available to pre-order now (shipping begins this September) at akoustic-arts.com, and is available in two sizes: the A Junior (9 x 9cm), currently priced at $350/£246, and the A Original (20 x 20cm), which costs $550/£387. Prices for both are set to rise once the campaign is over.
Setting up the A speaker is easy. Simply unbox it, connect the battery, plug the charging cable into the speaker, then connect the A to your device (smartphone, tablet, laptop, stereo, TV, etc) via a 3.5mm mini-jack.
There are accessories available for the A speaker, too, including a stand for sitting the speaker on your desk, and a wall mount for fixing the speaker to your ceiling or wall. You can pre-order these accessories for $50/£35 each now.