Krueger Audio promises instrumental speaker designs at CES

by Steven Kim posted Jan 5th 2009 at 8:34AM

Krueger Audio Technologies gold loudspeaker

Without a doubt, loudspeaker design leaves a lot of room for new ideas (especially at the high end), and the disadvantages of typical box-like enclosures have been recognized for a long time now. Curvy shapes are not new, and at CES, Kruger Audio Technologies will toss its hat into the ring with designs that mimic instrumental shapes. If the unique form isn't enough to win you over, how about the added feature of indirect sunlight and rain resistance? Seriously, avoiding diffraction effects and standing waves is all well and good, but getting overly literal -- with a saxophone-like shape, for instance -- only holds up if you only listen to saxophones. We're not saying that the Krueger speakers won't sound great and aren't well-designed, but let's give engineers their due and not confuse a specific instrument shape with an audio panacea, okay?

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Craig @ Jan 5th 2009 8:58AM

K-ueger, that sounds like one of those old-time car horns, huh? K-ueger!

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Garst @ Jan 5th 2009 10:56PM

Will they are have a demo setup going "Cho cho chee chee che" over and over again? Or maybe just playing one of the movies on a continuous loop?

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pat mcafee @ Jan 9th 2009 3:52AM

I heard these thing today and they are the real deal. I was really blown away and the technology is real.

They said the shape was a coincidental thing and the sax shape is just one design that was "the way it ended up in design"

cool, very cool

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Phil @ Jan 16th 2009 12:14PM

It looks different all right and seems to be getting some negative response. I think the design shows how they put sound first and that needs to be recognized. The outcome is more or less because of having a solid directive. It may be "different" but I want to hear it before I trash it.

If I can find something negative to say, it would be the lack of solid connection to the ground for adequate bass response but then again, I have not heard this perform. If I had a band and had a super set of these things for a PA, how sweet would that be?

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