These new speakers from French audio specialists, Waterfall Audio, are certainly a departure from your typical wooden enclosures.

Made entirely from glass, the stunning looking Victoria EVO and Iguasçu EVO speakers [famous African/South American waterfalls, even if the second one is unpronounceable], make it look like the drivers are floating in the air. The Victoria speakers stand 40in tall [Iguasçu 34ins] and both are just 10in wide.

“The Victoria EVO, is a three-way/four-driver design, includes Waterfall's proprietary, downfiring, 8-1/2-inch passive woofer, the Iguasçu employs identical drivers (including the passive woofer) in a two-way/three-driver arrangement. Both models use a key Waterfall technology: the Acoustic Damping Tube (ADT), which performs near-total damping of mid- and low-frequency 'back-wave- artifacts, and precise damping control of midrange reflections, allowing the speakers to produce superbly accurate, high-end performance within their effectively undamped glass enclosures.”

The Victoria EVO come in at a steep £3,700 a pair and the Iguasçu Evo at just under £2,000 per pair.

Feel free to beat any friend who leaves his bottle of beer on top of them to death.-Martin Lynch

[Waterfall Audio]