Audyssey Lower East Side multimedia speakers go on sale in the coming weeks at a price of $ 199.99.
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IPod last year Audyssey / iPhone Audio Dock was named after the South of Market district of San Francisco. This time, the company has grown to the east, by naming its new $ 199.99 MEDIA Speakers Lower East Side of Manhattan for the region. (We will use the "ERP" for short.)
Why Lower East Side?
Well, the marketing behind the speakers inspired by the gritty district of "regulation-lined streets that was home to immigrants from almost every country, since the district formed" and rich musical history that includes these "sacred places" as CBGB, ABC No Rio and Arlene Grocery. (Today, of course, the neighborhood is not as gritty as in the past instead dominated by young hipsters.)
Invented name notwithstanding, what you have with the LES MEDIA Speakers Audyssey is a pair of stereo speakers. Once upon a time, we call them the "PC-speakers", but these days, the sound source can be anything from an iPod, smart phones, game systems, streaming media, or a laptop - only to name a few. These speakers are so small they can fit any bedroom, dorm room, den or home office environment. At the same time, Audyssey has used his experience with the Sonics want to further optimize the sound usually find a pair of single-use PC speakers $ 30.
From the standpoint of design, Audyssey speaker SLE have a simple clean look, which is a setback not stand to feel integrated in the raw metal, and a red stripe that planners say evokes the red brick buildings on the Lower East Side (we have a guy who does not).
Each of the two speakers are 9.3 inches high by 5 inches wide by 6 inches deep, and weighs about 3 pounds. They each have a 3.5-inch driver and a silk dome 0.75-inch tweeters in the front (either standing or speaker grilles are removable) and a low passive radiator on the back.
The left speaker houses the amplifier and volume control / power and headphones (out) are available on the front panel jack. No remote control option Audyssey, but have an automatic standby mode, which means you go to "sleep" after a few minutes of dead air.
Traits, these guys offer is one thing missing from most PC speakers: The optical input (TOSLINK). So you can connect to Apple TV or a gaming system like Playstation 3, and also a 3.5 mm analog input for another device. (Both the inputs and the power port located behind the left.)
