Marshall home stereo

Marshall Headphones & Amplification have launched their first home audio product, an active loudspeaker that (surprise) looks just like a guitar amp. The Hanwell, named for the London location of Jim Marshall's first shop, has a wooden cabinet with the iconic Marshall vinyl wrapping and black/gold grill cloth. No word on pricing, or whether it goes to eleven. "Hawnell Revealed"

• [fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

  Does it come with a complementary “Too old to rock and roll; too young to die.” tattoo?

  I’m pretty sure that every time an expensive stereo speaker dressed up as a guitar amp gets sold, a budding musician sells out to Mood Media Corporation in order to pay the bills…

• [The Life Of Bryan]

  This seems perfectly natural to me: I use my Ampeg bass combo as the sub in my home system. Not ideal, but with some careful EQing it gets the job done.

• [Charlie Lesoine]

  I love my roland stereo cube:

  http://www.amazon.com/Roland-Mobile-Battery-Powered-Stereo-Amplifier/dp/B001CQ8VJS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1346884115&sr=8-1&keywords=stereo+cube+roland

• [saint_al]

  Quality used gear works as well. Doesn’t have to be Marshall, either.

  /My 1st guitar amp was scratchbuilt from a vacuum-tube phonograph.

• [Paul Renault]

  Amazing!  A one-speaker stereo!  

  • [Gyrofrog]

     Simple, put everything on a second MP3 player, then hook that one up to that Hammacher Schlemmer alpenhorn from a few days ago, then hott rokken

• [hugh crawford]

  Considering that the Marshall sound is pretty much exactly the opposite of Hi-Fi ie guitar goes in and jimi hendrix comes out this doesn’t make a lot of sense. Of course compared to laptop speakers I’m sure it’s the (altec) voice of the theater. 

  • [Paul Renault]

     I have experience in naming these.  We used to call ‘em Voice of the Cafeteria speakers at John Abbott College back in the day…

    Better name: “Voice of the Basement”.

• [JuliANSR]

  Uhm…you do this with any amp you currently own. What’s the big deal here?