Audioengine 5's.

I'm sure that the Audioengine 5 sound better but for price, portability, and pure whimsy it would be hard to beat the Muji-cardboard speakers.

A while back I was watching Current TV which featured a profile of Muji. Think Japanese IKEA, minus the cute names. Muji's central ideas are quality, simplicity, and modesty. The product that caught my attention was a pair of single-driver speakers that use a collapsable card board box as their enclosure, retail is a cool $42. Never mind the kinds of frequency response problems that such an enclosure would introduce, I want to hear these speakers and I don't even know why. Muji just opened their first US store in New York. These would be right up the alley of Stereophile's Art Dudley. Single-driver? Check. Japanese? Check. Original in a wacky way? Check. Esoteric? CHECK!

Check out a video at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CegjnVq8LN8