Jawbone JAMBOX
The Jambox is the largest-selling portable speaker in the USA, and for good reason. This beautifully designed portable Bluetooth speaker/speakerphone delivers surprisingly big sound from something that fits the palm of your hand. Featuring a 3.5mm input jack for non-Bluetooth audio sources and an integrated rechargeable Lithium-ion battery that gives 10 hours of wireless playback, Jawbone now allows you to create your own JAMBOX by choosing the colours of your grill and caps.
Price: Rs. 10,524
House of Marley’s Get Up Stand Up
House of Marley has been putting out some unique-looking headphones and speaker systems since breaking onto the scene in 2012. Their aptly named Bluetooth speaker, Get Up Stand Up, is beautifully crafted using FSC-certified and responsibly harvested dark walnut and birch wood. It’s powered by dual 4.5- inch high-output woofers, 1-inch high-definition tweeters and a powerful amplifier, providing room-filling bass and realistic mids and highs.
Price: Rs. 29,790
Klipsch Reference Premiere Floorstanding Speakers
American Hi-Fi speaker brand Klipsch’s latest flagship speakers, the RP-280, deliver “low distortion, high efficiency, broad dynamic range and the famous copper and black enclosure that oozes style.” Each cabinet features a 1-inch Linear Travel Suspension titanium tweeter, dual 8-inch Spun Copper Cerametallic cone woofers and a redesigned Hybrid Tractrix Horn to further improve high-frequency response.
Price: $679
Bowers & Wilkins P5 Wireless Headphones
Bluetooth headphones usually suffer from poor sound quality, but with the P5 wireless headphones, that’s history. You get amazing, pristine sound thanks to Bluetooth aptX, the high-quality audio standard, and 40mm drivers with traditional speaker-like suspended diaphragms. Did I mention how gorgeous these cans are? Featuring a supple, padded lambskin leather headband, perforated lambskin leather ear pads and a shiny aluminum frame, this beauty is certainly worth the price tag.
Price: Rs.27,999
Fern & Roby Turntable
This brand appeals to audiophiles and aesthetes alike. Simply called “The Turntable”, it’s a striking 32 kg cast iron plinth that reduces resonance and achieves vibration-dampening throughout the system, with a 16 kg bronze platter that is dynamically balanced to 1000 rpm. It comes with a Rega 303 tone arm and integrates the traditional AC motor with real-time digital speed control to keep the platter in check.
Price: $6500
Revo Supersystem
This gorgeous digital music player from Revo offers the ability to connect wirelessly to a wide variety of sources, including DAB+, FM, Internet radio, Spotify and Bluetooth. It uses UNDOK technology to share your music with other compatible systems. Inside a beautiful enclosure featuring an all-wood cabinet with anodised aluminium and a mild-steel facia and backplate, you will find an 80-watt Class-D amp that powers its ported 6-inch subwoofer and twin 3.5-inch BMR flat-planel drivers. Users can control their music and speaker settings from an iOS or Android device.
Price: From $899
B&O Play Beolit 15
Reminiscent of vintage transistor radios, the beautiful BeoLit 15 wireless speaker from Bang & Olufsen has a feature set that is anything but old fashioned. It comes with 240 watt Dual Class D amplifiers powering a 5.5-inch long-stroke full-range driver, two four-inch passive bass radiators — one on each side, to nullify vibrations — and three 37mm mid-tweeters. The device’s rechargeable battery has a playback time of approximately 24 hours, and it uses Bluetooth 4.0 for high quality audio streaming. Available in Natural Champagne, Polar Blue, and Shade Rosa.
Price: $600
Edifier Spinnaker e30
One of the more visually striking bookshelf speaker systems, the Spinnaker stands over 16 inches tall and its bold, futuristic design is not just for aesthetics. Each satellite is equipped with a ¾-inch silk-domed, front-facing tweeter and a 2¾-inch midrange driver, reinforced with 4-inch downward-firing subwoofer — all with different space requirements, which the cone-like shape accommodates, so you can enjoy an incredibly authentic reproduction of sound with crisp highs, clear mids and deep, rumbling lows.
Price: Rs. 20,000
