This Los Angeles brand is blurring the line between audio and art – for a price, of course

Oben Jovian speaker in the corner of a living room.

Have you ever seen speakers look like this before?

Should we even be calling them speakers? According to their Los Angeles-based studio Oben Hi-Fi, the new brand “occupies a category that does not yet have a name”, and describes its designs as “sculptural sound works that function as reference-level high-fidelity listening systems.”