July 2007

There are speakers of the house, and then there's a pair of Bang & Olufsens. The Danish company's latest, BeoLab 9, employs Acoustic Lens Technology: In each 2-foot-tall loudspeaker are a 10-inch sub, a 5-inch middie, and a tweeter that projects a gut-thumping 600 watts in a 180-degree swath. The less directional treble means not having to fool around with speaker placement to find the sweet spot—it's everywhere. $9,900; bang-olufsen.com.