See that driver? That 5" sucker has excursion worthy of a subwoofer but without the ghetto-fab distortion levels. And that tweeter? Custom folded ribbon. And that snow cone maker? An omni almost-super tweeter. And that cabinet? Genuine artificial marble.

The company is Mark & Daniel and they're hip to doing things differently. They custom make all their drivers and cabinets because they're cool like that. If you're down with the tech talk, the 6Moons review of the $2980 Maximus monitor goes into depth about all the tech advances in this one little package. The big marketing claim? "The World’s first 800Hz low crossover 2-way miniature speaker with low FMD index design." And that's just the beginning. Their claims of revolution would make most marketing departments blush:

"Taking these limitations, a “Conceptional Revolution” has been achieved by M&D® that re-defines speaker systems based on true Hi-Fi fundamentals. The results are profound innovations for the driving modules, with their unique Dreams wideband high resolution driver for tweeters and their patented SX technology for woofers. M&D® have engineered the specifications the sound for tomorrows speakers !!"

Gotta love it. MD also makes a couple of floorstanding models as well as stand alone Xmas drivers to replace your current speaker's low excursion drivers. Definitely interesting stuff, but no absolute verdict or aqua awards from 6Moons. Hopefully we'll see some more coverage of these guys to know if they can really walk the walk. Read 6Moons for more and check out the Mark & Daniel site.