Artist scales retro speaker up to ridiculous proportions

Artist Gwak has built a huge replica of a slightly yellow‑tinged retro speaker — one half of a Harman Kardon HK 19.5 2.0 set — and it looms over viewers while blasting Creed and Blink‑182. The piece sits on a wooden base with working speakers mounted in the middle; the outer walls are painted and a fabric covers the front.

The right knob powers the speaker and changes volume, complete with the familiar click. Gwak showed an original Harman Kardon set next to the prototype in an earlier video; the original is about 6.7 inches tall, suggesting the oversized version measures roughly 67–73 inches (5.6 to 6 feet).

On TikTok Gwak described the work as "I’m making the world's dumbest—I mean largest—computer speaker" and added, "Now, is this a really stupid project? Yes." The build took a few weeks. Early demonstrations showed cellphone interference when phones approached the speaker, but that interference is missing from later videos; it remains unclear whether it was disabled, removed, or edited out.

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