NSA-PF1 Speaker System

red dot: best of the best
red dot award: product design 2009

Get together – design and interpretation
“Music makes the people come together, Music mix the bourgeoisie and the rebels. Don’t think of yesterday and I don’t look at the clock,” Madonna sings in her dance hit “Music”, which epitomises the manifold meanings of music in a single song. The design of the hi-fi speaker system opens up a completely new listening experience within a space, an innovative sound reproduction system with a surprising language of form: a transparent and organic glass tube of approximately one metre in length is positioned on top of a seemingly simple stand, without any visible loudspeakers. Rather, the glass tube vibrates, projecting a clear three-dimensional sound with an intensity that can easily fill even spacious areas such as halls or lobbies. This innovative speaker system thus facilitates a new approach of shared listening, because the sound can be heard equally well by a number of people at the same time. While the sound production realised in the 360-degree glass speaker offers a novel listening experience, its language of form manages to change the aesthetics of speaker systems: it is reminiscent of a lightsaber and does not blend invisibly into a room but instead conveys its function in a bold and entertaining manner: the illuminated tube attracts listeners’ attention and the speaker system thus becomes an interesting interior element. In order to further adapt it to a space, the three illuminated colours in the organic glass tube can be adjusted to suit. The NSA-PF1 changes the way music is experienced by reinterpreting the idea of a speaker system – an aesthetically appealing mediator that brings people together.