The French manufacturer Waterfall Audio will introduce its glass speakers to American market at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show next month. The company announced two models for launching suggestively called Victoria EVO and Iguasçu EVO (after the names of two famous waterfalls).

According to the press release the “Victoria EVO and Iguasçu EVO are slim, pure-glass towers standing 40 inches high but just 10 inches wide. The Victoria EVO, a three-way/four-driver design, includes Waterfall’s proprietary, downfiring, 8.5-inch passive woofer, the Iguasçu (34 inches tall by 10 inches wide) employs identical drivers (including the passive woofer) in a two-way/three-driver arrangement. Both models use a key Waterfall technology: the Acoustic Damping Tube (ADT), which performs near-total damping of mid- and low-frequency ‘back-wave’ artifacts, and precise damping control of midrange reflections, allowing the speakers to produce superbly accurate, high-end performance within their effectively undamped glass enclosures.”

Victoria EVO speakers retail for $5,400 a pair, while their little brother, the 34-inch Iguasçu EVO costs $3,900 a pair. The glass speakers will be available in February 2008.

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