News - Harman Kardon's GLA-55 speaker system hits retail

[HEXUS]

Clear-glass speaker system is arguably the best 2.0 solution available, says Harman Kardon.

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[dave87]

At 749 I think I'd go for a decent amp, speakers and soundcard!

Do look loverly though

[99Flake]

Is that truely £749.99? and not £74.99?

Who in their right mind would pay that much for ipod speakers.

Plus HK aren't really reknowned for their speakers, they are ok but I would prefer to spend my money on something from someone like Mission and get an amp etc.

Oh and IMO they look hideous. If I was paying that much I would want lashings of real wood!

[Lee H]

£749.99 for 2 speakers....

For that price one can have a very nice 5.1 setup and enjoy the sound even better.

I'm sure though that at least 1 posing banker who got a bonus will get these for someone this christmas

[GheeTsar]

OK, if they are glass, won't all the dust that naturally gets in the bass port make it look pretty grubby pretty quickly?

[Ulti]

I guess I am the only one that likes the glass aspect of it haha. Now I had an idea... a full glass setup. A case made out of glass, a monitor screen encased in glass (not just the monitor in glass, I mean the actual LCD screen housed in glass) and a glass keyboard with a glass mouse and a glass table and glass walls and a glass house... wait what am I thinking? o.O

EDIT: Forgot to comment on the price, £749.99... Wow I can get an i7 + Mobo + 5870 setup just about for that price.

[HSK]

damn, forget about the ice cool looks, the price is on fire.

I wonder how good these sound though, never heard or tried out speakers with all these new "technologies".

[aidanjt]

They do know glass resonates, right?.. Not exactly a good material to make up the chassis of speaker drivers.

[kalniel]

They do know glass resonates, right?.. Not exactly a good material to make up the chassis of speaker drivers.

Because all you want is cones free standing in air with no resonating at all? Come on, you want a speaker box to resonate.

[ksdp37]

@ £750 I'm not even sure I want to hear them. This way I won't know what I'm missing ;-)