Global lockdowns saw the world take greater pride in its home aesthetics. When four walls become your only sanctuary, you want to ensure it not only feels like home but looks like it, too. With consumers becoming more design conscious of their purchases, whether homeware or candles (looking at you, CENT.ldn), brands have been tasked with upping their game to deliver the future of design.
Syng, a brand that we're big fans of at Highsnobiety, has kept this design focus at its core in its ambitions to craft the future of sound.
Those in the US will likely be familiar with Syng, famed for delivering a 3D audio experience unlike any other. Well, the brand recently found its way to the UK, and consequently, into my home.
If you're looking for an audio device that's going to make a big, impactful statement within your space, look no further. On first glance, I thought the Death Star had found its way through hyperspace to Manchester. The Cell Alpha's design cannot be knocked; it's futuristic, intriguing, and incredibly unique.
What of its 3D audio experience? Well, if you're anything like me and new to home audio, the Cell Alpha is the audio equivalent of jumping in at the deep end. The beauty of the Cell Alpha is that you can customize your audio experience; you can either let this beast do what it does best and fill every corner of the room with crisp, deep, bass-rich sound, or choose where it's directed.
Even at lower volumes, the clarity of sound is incredible, traveling not only to each corner of the room but seemingly through the ground, allowing you to feel the sound as much as you hear it.
If you're a DnB head like me; be warned, cranking this thing up to the higher end of its volume settings will piss off your neighbors. Hello, noise complaints.