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Sangria Sound System

by Josh Ray, Jul 27 '06

 Gadgets Upload 2006 07 Sangria Speakers

From the seventh circle of home theater hell comes the Sangria Sound System. Sangria, in case you're not familiar with this taste beverage, is the Spanish Mimosa. Instead of champagne, cheap wine is thrown in a bottle with fruit, sugar and other random ingredients fermenting in your pantry. Let it chill and voila! Alcohol makes everything sound better.

As you can see, the Sangria Sound System has non-parallel side walls and a special porting mechanism. And, yes, that's a subwoofer on the floor there. In truth, this is more funky conceptual art than, say, a ridiculous attempt at food-based audio. The designer is Carlo Rossi of fine jug wine fame. He has a number of other art art pieces such as a chardonnay chandelier, cabernet couch and paisano plasma TV stand. Thankfully, Carlo is kind enough to provide us with DIY instructions (PDF) for building one's own alcoholic fantasy. First person to put diamond tweeters in a sangria jug wins a special prize!

(thanks for the tip, Fred!)

Comments

That subwoofer thing looks like something Marcel Duchamp would have built and exhibited right next to his "Fountain".

Posted by: beto at July 27, 2006 2:45 PM

I'm trying to decide whether I would have identified those things as speakers if I was simply shown a picture of one. I think it would've taken a guess or two -- first guess would've been some kind of plumbing tool.

Posted by: Rods84 at July 27, 2006 4:38 PM