The latest product from Canon isn’t a digicam, lens, or flash, however a lamp and speaker, the Light & Speaker ML-A, a Bluetooth enabled speaker with lighting function designed to rework your own home surroundings.
In at present’s fast-paced world, residence needs to be a haven. Canon says the corporate “has imbued years of technological expertise into this new product to ensure it is a valuable addition to any space, big or small. Available in both black and silver, the Light & Speaker ML-A features a sleek and elegant design, meticulously crafted with premium materials and without visible screws. Its aluminium body, with timeless silhouette, ensures it visually enhances any space, even when switched off.”
Yes, Canon’s newest innovation is the Light & Speaker ML-A, a flexible piece that serves two capabilities – each lamp and speaker – serving to customers to create the proper environment, whether or not they want to set the temper for an important day dinner, focus whereas working from residence or get their head down enhancing pictures.
Featuring 360-degree audio, the speaker delivers, Canon claims, “crystal-clear sound even at lower volumes, thanks to its full-range speaker and passive radiator – meaning it is perfect for playing music in the background whilst practicing hobbies, focusing on work or relaxing after a long day. With built-in Bluetooth connectivity, users can effortlessly stream from their mobile devices and computers, creating a rich and immersive auditory experience.”
A light-weight in your tabletop studio?
Although it’s not designed as a transportable lighting system for use in pictures or video, the ML-A speaker lamp, with its built-in battery, which expenses by way of USB-C and delivers as much as eight hours of sunshine – or 5 hours of music playback or three hours of each – can be utilized in a tabletop studio setup. It has two settings: Warm (3,450K) and Cool (6,450K), and three ranges: 25lm, 200lm, 300lm. The truth you could hold utilizing the ML-Some time it expenses for no downtime makes it much more attention-grabbing. And it offers you a loudspeaker to take heed to music whereas working.
Key specs:
• Speaker: 50mm driver and passive radiator
• Amplifier: Class-D Digital Amplifier with 10W max output
• Connectivity: Bluetooth 5.0 (A2DP)
• Light supply: LED lamp with 30,000-hour lifespan
• Three brightness ranges: 25 lumens, 200 lumens and 300 lumens
• Colour temperature: 3,450k (heat setting); 6,450K (white setting)
• Interface: USB Type-C (charging solely)
• Battery capability: 2,600mAh
• Battery charging time: 3 hours (approx.)
• Battery life: 8 hours lighting; 5 hours music playback; 3 hours lighting and music collectively (approx.)2
• Dimensions: 122mm (diameter) x 310mm (top) (approx.)
• Weight: 1.6kg (approx.)
Canon Audio: an journey within the Eighties
Contrary to what many might imagine, this isn’t Canon’s first foray into the loudspeaker enterprise. In truth, within the 1980’s the corporate launched a sequence of encompass loudspeakers made in UK, a few of them – the S75 – with a design that’s just like the one used for the Light & Speaker ML-A. The quick lived Canon Audio launched its family of loudspeakers with what the corporate known as Wide Imaging Stereo (WIS). I bear in mind this properly as a result of I wrote concerning the new product for the newspaper I labored for on the time, and had the S-50 mannequin for testing for some time when the loudspeakers had been launched. Later I might attempt different fashions, the S-30 and the V-series, till the demise of Canon Audio, within the mid 90s.
The Canon Audio story, with all the small print, is obtainable, for these , within the web site Music and Miscellany, written by Phil Ward. It’s a 5 half story that’s attention-grabbing to learn and divulges how Canon’s stint in audio is nothing new. I share right here a hyperlink to the primary a part of the article.
