True Acoustic Art Takes 1,400 Man Hours to Make, $320,000 to Buy [Speakers]

Last weekend I visited the Barnes Foundation art gallery in Philadelphia, and among my favorite pieces were the sculptures of Jacques Lipchitz . The Vox Olympian Loudspeaker hangs with them aesthetically, and it may play music, too.

The Vox Olympians, designed for superyachts, are crafted in England by a firm called Living Voice. They’re made with some materials you know are good, like gold, silver and bronze, and some that sound like they’re good, like tellurium, beryllium and alnico. Each pair takes 1,400 man-hours to make.

The cheapest they run is £210,000, about $328,700, that is outrageously expensive, even compared to the run-of-the-mill ultra-rich-person-gear you normally come upon. But if I had a boatload of money, buying speakers that were pretty much as good for staring at as they were for listening to would probably something I’d consider. [ Born Rich ]

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