WIRED Links 150 Ikea $10 Speakers Into a Giant Wall of Sound

WIRED set out to build a massive sound installation by connecting around 150 of Ikea's inexpensive $10 Bluetooth speakers. The project attempts something the Swedish furniture brand had not tried itself: creating a sonic monolith from large numbers of the cheapest speakers on the market. The experiment raises the question of whether a small, inexpensive product can become impressive when multiplied at scale. The article details the effort as a test of how far the low-cost hardware can be pushed.