A speaker / shaped like a building.
TheSoloist.Sound is a 110-centimeter wireless speaker hand-finished as cement-textured sculpture. It does not look like audio equipment. It looks like a fragment of the Flatiron Building, cracked open and brought home.
The first soloist
Takahiro Miyashita — the Japanese designer behind Number (N)ine and TAKAHIROMIYASHITATheSoloist. — was invited to design the studio's first object. He brought a building.
Miyashita's love affair with New York architecture is well documented across two decades of his fashion work. When asked to design an object for TheSoloist, he chose the Flatiron Building — Daniel Burnham's 1902 triangular tower at the intersection of Broadway and Fifth Avenue, one of the most photographed structures in Manhattan.
The result is a 110cm-tall, impossibly thin block of cement-gray polycarbonate composite, hand-finished to look like cracked concrete. From across a room, it reads as architecture. Up close, every surface reveals the labor of fingerprints — sanded, chiseled, polished. It is a speaker that earns the title "sculpture" before it earns the title "speaker."
What's inside
Behind the cement skin: a 2000-watt, 7-channel system engineered to be felt by the body, not just heard by the ear.
| Form | Polycarbonate composite resin, moulded and hand-finished sculpture |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 32 × 46 × 110 cm (12.6 × 18.11 × 43.31 in) |
| Weight | 20 kg |
| Available colors | Cement gray · Black · Gray-gold |
| Audio architecture | 7 channels |
| Maximum SPL | 110 dB |
| Power output | 2000 W total |
| Frequency range | 20 Hz – 25 kHz |
| Connectivity | Bluetooth 5.2, TWS pairing |
| Drive units |
2 × 6.5″ aluminium-diaphragm bass speakers (NdFeB magnetic circuit) 2 × 12mm extra-long-stroke 3″ midrange speakers (NdFeB magnetic circuit) 3 × 1″ spherical silk-dome treble speakers |
| Materials | High-performance polycarbonate composite resin · Aluminium |
Editions
Four editions exist. Three are limited and individually numbered.
Cement Gray
RRP US $6,200
The original colorway. The truest expression of Miyashita's Flatiron tribute.
Black Edition
RRP US $8,600
Matte black cement texture. Numbered and individually marked.
Grey-Gold Edition
RRP US $11,100
Cement-grey body with hand-applied gold accents. The collector's grade.
Black-Gold × ZuHaus Edition
RRP US $13,700
A nine-piece collaboration with ZuHaus. The rarest configuration.
Where to find it
TheSoloist.Sound is available through curated retail partners worldwide.
Drivepro
Showrooms in Shanghai (K11) and Hong Kong. Mainland China exclusive distributor.
Curated retailers
Boltbolt · Maxfield · PENCE · Kream · Gazeshop · Archived. New partners onboarded continuously across Europe, North America, the Middle East and East Asia.
Frequently asked
- Is it a Bluetooth speaker?
- Yes — Bluetooth 5.2 with TWS (true wireless stereo) pairing. Two units can be linked into a stereo pair. There is no app dependency: pair, play, listen.
- How is it different from a Devialet Phantom or a Bang & Olufsen Beosound Edge?
- Those are audio brands making sculptural speakers. TheSoloist.Sound is the inverse: it is a sculpture from a technology-art studio that happens to play music. Specs are deliberately not the headline. The headline is the form, the designer, and the place it occupies in a room.
- Where is it manufactured?
- Manufactured in mainland China by SOLOIST TECH CO, LIMITED, the brand's parent company. Hand-finishing is performed by trained craftspeople; each unit varies subtly in its surface character.
- What is the warranty?
- Two years standard, five years for limited editions registered with the studio. Full terms are provided with each unit.
Hear it in person.
Reach out for showroom locations, distribution inquiries, or to commission a piece for an institutional space.
info@thesoloist.net