Most “designer” speakers are a nice-looking box with a fabric grille and a logo where the personality should be. So when something rolls up looking like a sculpture first and a sound system second, it definitely earns itself a second look. The Hum Speaker, a collaboration between New York furniture designer Kouros Maghsoudi and hi-fi studio Silence Please, is exactly that kind of object.
It debuted at NYCxDesign 2026 inside Silence Please’s Bowery listening room, and it doesn’t look like anything else on a shelf.
Stacked Like a Club System, Built to Be Stared At
The body is a stack of rounded brutalist slabs, the kind of repeated geometry Maghsoudi has built his whole design language around. Picture a club speaker stack shrunk down and lacquered to a mirror shine, then topped with a horn that looks straight out of an old gramophone.
That horn is the part that’ll split opinions, and the makers know it. It’s based on the Jean-Michel Le Cléac’h profile, a shape audio nerds respect for smooth, even dispersion.
There’s a clever trick to the whole thing, too. From the front, the driver hides behind a clean, unbroken face, so it reads as a pure art piece. Walk around back and the enclosure opens up to expose the actual speaker.
Yes, It Actually Works
This thing is more than just a pretty face, and there’s actual hi-fi intent underneath. The Hum is a passive 2-way bookshelf speaker running a 6.5-inch woofer and that horn-loaded tweeter, sitting in a 15-liter bass-reflex enclosure tuned to dig down to 45Hz without a subwoofer.
There’s no built-in Bluetooth or smartphone app. You’ll need an amplifier and speaker cables, which means it’s squarely aimed at the hifi crowd rather than casual listeners.
Spec Sheet
Speaker Type: Passive 2-way bookshelf loudspeaker
Configuration: Sold as a pair (L+R)
Drivers: 6.5″ woofer, horn-loaded tweeter
Enclosure: 15 L bass-reflex, tuned to 45 Hz
Frequency Response: 42 Hz to 20 kHz (-6 dB)
Sensitivity: 90 dB (2.83 V / 1 m)
Nominal Impedance: 4 Ω
Recommended Power: 30-80 watts per channel
Max Power Handling: 60 W
Inputs: Terminal post
Dimensions: 298 × 298 × 596 mm
Finishes: Bone or Black (custom lacquer available)
Limited Edition: Yes, 10 sets
Pricing & Availability
The Hum Speaker is available now through Silence Please’s website, priced at $6,600 per pair, with custom lacquer colorways on offer if Bone or Black don’t do it for you. With only 10 sets in existence, the rest of us are stuck admiring it from the photos and wondering how it actually sounds in the room.
Recap
Silence Please x Kouros Maghsoudi Hum Speaker
A brutalist, gramophone-horned bookshelf speaker built from stacked lacquered slabs, the Hum pairs a 6.5-inch woofer and Le Cléac’h horn tweeter in a 10-set limited run, doubling as both a real hi-fi setup and a sculpture you’ll want on display.
