Video: Sony's $10k Sountina glass speaker gets a production nod
By Thomas Ricker 
posted May 28th 2008 1:27AM
posted May 28th 2008 1:27AM
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a million yen is more like $9600
Damn, that was supposed to be Euro. Fixed. Thanks!
Thomas
While you are at fixing...I think it's called "sOuntina" (like in "sound"). When writing it with an A it reminds me of a Finnish Sauna or something.
But no matter how you spell it: is the white room above an apartment or a room in a loony bin?
Ugh, you're right, the machine translated text differed from the video. Fixed. This is going to be a long day...
Thomas
i dont get it... this 1 speaker is the full surround sound?
or you need to buy 5~ of these for the full surround sound?
Just keep your drunk guests far from the speakers.
That's what we need, friends with shards of glass stuck in them when the party goes wild doesn't sound fun.
"Honey, The kids broke the $6,500 speakers again."
These type of speakers are the reason why products should stay in concept model.
Well...... it's pretty.....
I like the way they push the speaker to its very limits in the promo - by playing what sounds to me like a Transport Tycoon midi!
Omg...Transport Tycoon. My favorite game from my childhood. And you mentioned the music, one of the best parts.
You sir are a brilliant man.
Ditto that!!!!!!
I played it on a old Dell Optiplex with a 100MHz Intel Processor.
It still looked awesome for a DOS based game!
What's the point of making a 'commercial' for the concept of speakers if sound quality isn't even mentioned...I love how pretty the new amazon kindle is, but should I spend my money on it? Guess not, there's better options...
Wow, I'm having the premonition of a low ranking for this post and some major complaints coming my way =) LoL
JbS
It seems you aren't as controversial as you were hoping to be.
Pro Tip: Try flaming Apple posts, you'll get more low rankings.
i could never sit in that cold-ass, sterile, contemporary-gallery room and listen to music... who lives like that?
Well I do, but I am a serial killer.
Agent 47 does.
> i could never sit in that cold-ass, sterile,
> contemporary-gallery room and listen to music...
I read that as "i could never s_h_it in that [...]" and made a mental double take; was it a picture of a bathroom?
I almost scrolled back to look at the picture again before realizing that my brain had inserted yet another obscene typo into text I read. I gotta get my Freudian filters replaced again. Once every 6 month or 600 million characters read doesn't appear to be enough.
I'm trying to figure out what makes it special besides looking different and having RGB LEDs.
Seems prett pricey. It would never pass my wife.
yeah; stick to conveyor belts
Have her mount it and play something with a ton of bass...then see what she has to say.
Nice, but where are the speaker wires, and power cord for the sub?
Did anyone else feel that this is the irl version of the GoldenEye level complex?
(The basement...)
ill will buy 2 of these....
after i win the lottery.
this looks like some futuristic museum exhibit of a ski pole
They should have a stripper straddling that thing.
Why is it placed smack in the middle of the room?
It's an omnidirectional speaker.
Its gonna get right in the way of the tv, isnt it.
tim -- That's why it's made out of glass!! ; )
this is funny: the product is called sautina, but in german the first part of the name "SAU" means "pig"! also: adding an "a" at the end often makes a femal version out of the word, for example "martin" -> "martinA". so literally translated in german "sautina" could be translated as "female pig"!!! ha ha! i fear they should change the name of this product in germany / switzerland / austria... ;-)
Cool, glass shards in knuckles of my Wii-mote hand.
Its very nice
product made for new generation.very wondering.
whats the price and how much power output.
Uh...
Take that B&W!
B&O maybe?
I'd pick B&W over B&O for speakers although I'd love B&O components to play through the B&Ws.
I, personally, thought he was referring to those pesky Motor-Wurking Bavarians.
I thought it was werking?
I thought it was werking?
WTF is "organic glass"?
I looked it up: It's "clear methacrylate polymers" or the trademarked "Plexiglas"!
Wow, throw in that sound track and it's a deal! BTW, is that a mood ring inside the speaker?
As a bonus it can also amplify your transporter pattern buffers.
My kids would tip that over and break it in a second!
@ Thomas Ricker, why call Sony a poser for making a new really nice looking piece? Isn't that what's this site about?
Hmm... If they can sell a small tower of speakers for $10K, maybe I could make some money here by putting speakers in a sculpture or something... Mine would be original though, no production art.
why don't they just make a chandelier that has a built in omni directional speaker. atleast it'd be out of the way of drunken partygoers.
A nod for the rod?
I don't think it is actually glass. Probably just like the plastic film in directional B&O speakers only in tube form.
Gotta say that it looks very cool. If they could start mass producing these and get them down to $500 a pair I would definatley buy a set.
The people that will buy them are th esame people picking up Sony XEL1 OLED displays like candy at Sony Style stores, the lifesucking lawyers. Seriously every lawyer in Beachwood Ohio has one on his desk.
$ountina! $ound$ Expensive for a piece of pole, just buy 4 speakers and place it in 4 corners of the room rather than placing a speaker in the center of your living room
may the force be with you. It should have been called the sony sound saber ^^
darth vader would be proud
I ran across this on thisnext.com. Good to hear that they're actually going to production.