Joey Roth is one of our favorite speaker designers and he’s gotten together with Grovemade to help design the Grovemade Wood Speakers ($599). The speakers harness the acoustic properties of wood and create beautifully clear and nuanced sound. The speakers are machined out of solid wood and are mounted on a leather clad stainless steel stands.
The wood enclosure isn’t just for looks. It is carved into a horn with precise dimensions in order to provide the very best sound. The horn shape provides a boost to the lower frequencies while removing distortion caused by digital signal processing, and standard bass reflex enclosures.
Each of these speakers is hand crafted one at a time at Grovemade’s Portland, Oregon workshop.
Sometimes I’ll go to my local Best Buy just to check out the latest and greatest. When I’m there, I always walk into the high-end area, get my phone out, and play some tunes through the Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin Wireless Speaker ($700). Beside that fact that is looks so cool, the sound the emanates […]