Sound Egg Bringing HD Surround Sound to Modern Furniture [retro cool]

slashgear ^ | 8 Jan 2011 | Dylan Bailey

[smokingfrog]

As we continue to scout the CES 2011 showroom floor, we came across an eye-catching furniture concept, the Sound Egg. The Sound Egg is fully customizable surround sound chair and comes in many configurations with some sporting connected HD TVs and both HDMI and RCA-out connectivity.

Pricing for the chairs depend on which features you’re looking for. Their basic Sound Egg with 2.1 will feature a 2.1 amplifier, 5 speakers, 1 subwoofer, foam and an uncovered plastic seat and will retail for $1450. Their higher end 5.1 will feature a 5.1 amplifier in place of the 2.1 and will retail for $1850.

[smokingfrog]

Updated furniture from the 70's.

[Red Badger]

Now we can start playing Asteroids and Pac Man in Surround sound................where’s my 8-track of John Denver?..............

[Tijeras_Slim]

Dark Side of the Moon dude...

[Dr. Sivana]

It's like Mork meets #2!

[SgtHooper]

I don’t see the silent-flush apparatus under there.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Be sure to order it with the upgrade package.

[Red Badger]

I had them on cassette............

[roadcat]

It’s not complete without a beer holder. I’d have to be drunk to sit in one of those.

[Myrddin]

I still have my old 8-track player...4 channel version. It plays 4 tracks to independent speakers. Just 2 programs instead of the stereo approach of 4 programs with 2 tracks each. A notch in the housing tells the player whether it is discrete 4 channel or stereo. My old Panasonic 8-track recorder was only good for creating stereo. Not sure if it still works. There may be a rubber drive belt in the mechanism. The 8-track cartridges have a rubber wheel that pulls the tape along. I'll bet ozone has made them cracked and hard instead of pliable as originally manufactured.

[thefactor]

Can’t recline, have to keep your feet on the ground like that? No thanks.

[Red Badger]

Hell they didn’t work in the 1970s, what makes you think it’ll work now?..........They ate more of my tapes that I care to remember........Remember when youd see miles of tape along side the highways where angry drivers threw out their destroyed music?..........

[Myrddin]

I still have a decent collection. Some of my "mix" tapes recorded to blanks purchased at Radio Shack are in good condition. Out a hundred tapes, I probably had 3 that ever failed. I got out of the 8-track business when the IBEW union thugs sawed my Roberts 8-track player out of the dashboard of my car to force the issue of getting $60 for union initiation dues. The cost of the replacement injection molded plastic exceeded the current value of the car.

[Brookhaven]

Updated furniture from the 70’s.

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It was a failure in the 1970’s, why would it be a success today?

[antiRepublicrat]

[swain_forkbeard]

I’d buy THAT for a dollar.

[Brookhaven]

8 tracks had better sound quality than cassettes (I remember hearing some quad 8-track versions of albums that were tremendous for the time), but a couple of problems that couldn’t be overcome.

(1) They were huge. Try taking a trip and bringing along your music? Took up too much space.

(2) No rewind!!! They only ran in one direction. If you wanted to listen to a song again you had to fast forward.

(3) Albums had two sides, but 8 tracks had “4 sides.” Companies actually put out albums on 8 track that has songs that abruptly endend in the middle of the song, only to pick up again when it switched to the next track (or worst faded out in the middle of a song, then faded back in—that’s the kind of think that would make you throw the tape out.)

Hey, like CBs, they are a part of history that defines an era.

[UCANSEE2]

[SeeSac]

Dark Side of the Moon dude...

But with the Egg you miss the best part ... the walls shaking and the paint falling from the ceiling.

[SeeSac]

The 8-track cartridges have a rubber wheel that pulls the tape along. I'll bet ozone has made them cracked and hard instead of pliable as originally manufactured.

Not to mention the state of the tape itself.

[Atlas Sneezed]