Audioengine Made a Kit for You, and It Was All Yellow
The artist Wassily Kandinsky said, “Color is a power that directly influences the soul.” But in the realm of home stereo gear, the color wheel gets minimal airtime, with equipment typically available in scant options: silver-faced classics, wood-grain boxes, all manner of modern reflective piano black, and not a whole lot else.
Not so with Audioengine, which has painted a neat little world with its annual Color of the Year kit: a suite of home audio components, including laptop speakers, a subwoofer, a turntable, and speaker stands. Each year, the brand drops a new edition of the series in a different color; in the launch year of 2024, a dusky matte blue; in 2025, a subtle metallic green; and now in 2026, a lustrous and smooth egg-yolk yellow.
Having a home audio system in such an unusual color palette is, to me, irresistibly joyful; whenever I look at these stereo...
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