The $140,000 loudspeakers

(Credit: Pocket-lint)

Yes, we know. Life as a media technophile can be so tiring sometimes.

It took forever for you to find the right home theater projector, but persistence paid off because you snagged a $10,000 model for only $99,995. And then there's the $150,000 turntable you stumbled across at a neighborhood garage sale.

But what, praytell, will you do about speakers? Apple industrial designer Ross Lovegrove has just the answer for you with his "Muon" masterpiece, which goes for a mere $140,000 a pair. These auditory wonders employ a technology that "doubles the available volume through absorption of air molecules by activated carbon--aka 'magic dust' by the audio industry," Pocket-lint says.

Shockingly, this is a limited edition--only 100 pairs have been made. Perhaps that's because British manufacturer KEF ran out of space: Each Muon is 7 feet tall. Given the speakers' "super-formed aluminum" casing and Evard Munch-looking curved design, the warehouse must look like something like a cross between a modern art museum and an alien rave.

But no matter, for your uber-media center is now complete, and no buyer remorse is necessary. Wait... What's this thing they call "La Sphere"?

[christopherwoods]

Buy these: instant feeling that you've been mugged

Once you get to prices like these, you're talking silly money.

I bet they sound very little tonality-wise when put up against some classic speakers like the ATCs (DSOTM was mixed down on ATCs and we have some at uni) or some B&Ws.

In fact, I'd probably buy B&Ws over those KEFs because I'd still have money left to build a NICE-ass HTPC setup replete with HD projectors (PLURAL :D) and all that lovely 7.2 goodness...

... In fact, I'd probably have enough money to buy 7 B&W floorstanders and two subs, AND biamp all of them, for less than two of those KEFs.

God, I've become so cynical in my 21 years of living.

[MauiMac]

I bet $140,000 wont make an MP3 sound any better..

If anything, it will make it sound 140,000x worse...