Marshall breaks into home audio with the Hanwell loudspeaker
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Marshall's new Hanwell active loudspeaker is named after the Father of Loud's very first shop in London
Marshall Headphones and Zound Industries have unveiled the Hanwell, a new Marshall-branded active loudspeaker headed for discerning living rooms in the near future
Users plug an audio device into the top of the Hanwell via the 3.5 mm jacks on the supplied double-ended guitar-like coil cord
The upper face features a brushed brass metal plate that's home to classic control dials for volume, bass and treble, a source audio input jack, a retro analog power switch and a red power status light
The Hanwell ships with a guitar-like, double-ended coil cord with 3.5 mm audio jacks at either end
The Hanwell borrows the gold logo and the fret cloth on the front from the company's vintage amps, and there's also a splash of gold-piping to remind us that Marshall is celebrating its 50th year in the business
Inside the stylish black vinyl (Tolex)-covered wooden cabinet sit a 100W Class-D amplifier, dual 6-inch long-throw woofers and bass porting to watch over low end output, and two ferrofluid-cooled hi-fi tweeters to take care of the higher frequencies
The Hanwell press launch was followed by a concert by the Eagles of Death Metal
The Hanwell being launched in Berlin
Article Summary
For the last half-century, Marshall Amps have helped shape the sound of modern music. They've traveled on the Highway to Hell with AC/DC, been on the receiving end of some Monterey grinding from Jimi Hendrix and have even shared the stage with God himself, but now the iconic brand is heading to our living rooms with the launch of the Hanwell. Developed in partnership with Marshall Headphones and Zound Industries, the new active loudspeaker is the first home audio product to sport the Marshall script logo and continues the late Jim Marshall's legacy of loud.
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