Great speakers without the sky-high price, 100% made in Taiwan

These audio speakers, 100% designed and made in Taiwan, use world-first patented technologies such as ABS composite material, shaping, and sand filling. At a price of less than NT$10,000 per set, they overturn the "sky-high price" tradition of good speakers and have won recognition from experts at home and abroad.

Domestic brand Usher Audio (USHER), in cooperation with ITRI, has designed a slim speaker, the "organic resin Hi-End speaker," which is being launched in Taiwan first and will take part in the US CES show opening in January 2014.

Taiwan's own USHER brand has been marketed at home and abroad for 40 years. In 2004, at the US CES show, its D2 series was judged the "best speaker of the show"; in 2008, its BE-20 speaker was again rated "Speaker of the Year" by the authoritative American magazine Absolute Sound. Since then, the door has opened for Taiwanese speakers to win awards on the international stage, and every attempt has brought results, also earning high praise from professional media such as Stereophile and from professional audio-video exhibitions.

Usher Audio chairman Tsai Lien-shui has also devoted 40 years to the audio industry. As someone who loves Taiwan, whenever he wins an award overseas, he always promotes that USHER comes from Taiwan. This time, with the launch of the speakers, Taiwan is also the first market for release.

Tsai Lien-shui said that for the speakers developed this time, American acoustics expert Joseph D'Appolito was invited to serve as technical consultant. Based on his "point source theory" and working together with ITRI, they used "hollow hot extraction" technology to form ABS composite material into a patented irregular hollow speaker wall, and finally filled the hollow part with less than 1 kilogram of construction sand costing less than NT$1. This can effectively reduce mid- and high-frequency reflection and suppress low-frequency resonance, with better results than expensive wooden speakers that also require cutting down trees, creating the surprise of achieving much with little. Enthusiasts can also fill in different lead sand or iron sand to DIY fine-tune the sound.