Gallo Acoustic’s ceiling-hung Micro Droplet is a feat for commercial hi-fi fans. It is a self-contained sound system that is carefully tailored and intended for the modern lifestyle and contemporary living space. As a coup for audio equipment sales in Birmingham, Audio affair is retailing the Anthony Gallo Droplet Speakers for a welcoming price of £199 – where you will find that superb sound quality meets funky design; a fun mix for your home’s sound system.
A range of striking colours are available
Form and style
A truly convenient single speaker system destined for the home is delivered in a new form for audiophiles. And dissimilar to boxy, traditional speaker sets that sit unloved on the floor, the ‘Droplet speakers quite simply raise it to the roof. With a nimble 4″ spherical diameter, they’re anchored from the ceiling using a fitted mount, in an impressive feat of design, freeing up ground space in smaller dwellings. Picture a sturdy, high-quality grapefruit-sized object dangling from your ceiling; then imagine that it can bring audio into your home with ease and class.
Enclosed from the ceiling in a mild steel fixture and wrapped in ‘Mical Polypropylene Compound’ (a spherical shape, doused in metal), the ‘Pendent Speaker’ range come in a secretion of eleven wonderful colours. Traditionally, those with reserved taste can settle for white, black, grey and metallic-silver (with variants of colour for the enclosing steel frame), whilst more abstract and out-there listeners can get a dose of electrified colour with blue, gold and red – all encapsulated in a black steel caging. Bespoke projects are eligible to use a SPECTRUM colouring service for a custom and unique finish.
Three of the more muted colours available
Substance over style in a Droplet
Looks are ever so slightly deceiving in ways, then contrastively not in others. The range of engineering and physical quality on the outside match the interior. The surprise comes in how small and compact the product is; yet there is not a loss of finish and sound in itself. Entrenched deep in the technology of the ceiling-suspended droplet speakers, they are made of superb equipment to provide a fantastic audio experience.
Frequencies respond between 80Hz and 18Khz, powers up to 100W, has a full range 3″ driver, accompanied by unique S2 fill technology (to enhance lower frequencies) and naturally eliminated internal resonance and external diffraction (owing to the speaker’s unique shape). This armoury of specifications are a finely-picked recipe for unsurpassable quality, especially that of a compact device that it suspended from the ceiling.
Small, round, and powerful
Similarly, its older twin, the Micro SE speaker, is akin to the Micro at a slightly more wallet-friendly £148.99, also part of Anthony Gallo’s equally as fun-shaped Micro range. They both entail the now a-typical 4” spherical designs of the range, but the Micro nudges ahead in the race with flat panel driver technology to drive performance forwards, which is where the now-older model falls ever so slightly short. General users may not find a difference, but those with finicky tastes regarding sound quality may prefer the newer option. It gives a more stereo-like sound in the same package as its – alongside the groundbreaking ceiling-suspended design for a commercial home speaker. With 89dB/w sensitivity and nominal impedance of 8 Ohms, the Droplet truly performs to a standard usually observed by boxier, traditional models, dishing out excellent quality sound.
The speakers have removed the mainstays of traditional hardware components, harvesting the best of their range in terms of construction, and packaged it together in a well-made spherical floating orb. From small offerings within the Anthony Gallos collection through to larger systems with modern design complementing traditional flair (such as the freestanding Strada set; £399 for the pair), it continues their forward-thinking trend of producing excellently engineered, aesthetically-pleasing audio speakers.
Out of the entire Micro range from Gallo Acoustics, the Droplet is the most innovative in its blend of functionality, build and style out of its sibling speakers, and one of the more innovative in recent speaker iterations that are destined for the wider market. Overall, the Droplet is worth its (wonderfully light and nimble) weight in what it costs, as it delivers excellent quality audio in compliance with its well-structured appearance.
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