Edifier's New Cyber speaker thinks it's a gaming PC

[Skye Jacobs]

First look: A new desktop speaker combining the look of a gaming PC with the features of dedicated audio gear is hitting the Chinese market. Dubbed the "New Cyber," it puts its insides on display, featuring RGB lighting and a full-color mini screen housed inside a transparent casing.

While its design clearly targets gamers and PC enthusiasts, Edifier's Huazai New Cyber suggests a broader ambition. By blending the visual flair of custom-built gaming rigs with serious audio hardware and flexible connectivity, the company is testing whether desktop speakers can be as expressive as the computers they accompany. Its success – and any release beyond China – may depend on how many consumers value performance that looks as bold as it sounds.

The Huazai New Cyber is priced at 1,499 yuan, or about $210, and comes in aurora white or phantom black. Edifier has not confirmed whether it plans to release the speaker outside China. The speaker connects to devices via Bluetooth, USB, or an analog audio cable, offering flexibility for different setups.

Inside, the speaker balances technical design with capable audio hardware. A 4-inch subwoofer handles bass, supported by three passive radiators that deepen low frequencies without extra powered drivers, while two 52mm mid-high drivers provide clarity in higher ranges. These components sit behind a fabric screen in the lower section of the speaker, and the upper portion is transparent, displaying amplifiers, a power supply, braided wiring, and a signal processor arranged to resemble computer parts such as a graphics card or memory slots.

The standout visual feature is a set of five circular RGB lights that simulate spinning cooling fans, shifting through colors in animated patterns to emphasize the PC theme. A built-in 2.8-inch display serves both decorative and practical purposes, showing custom images, animations, or messages. When connected to a computer via USB, it can display live system information such as CPU, GPU, and RAM activity, and when paired with a smartphone or other audio source, it can display song lyrics in real time.

The Huazai New Cyber is similar in size to many bookshelf speakers commonly used with desktop PCs, taking up noticeable space on a desk. To make the most of that footprint, Edifier added USB-A and USB-C ports that can charge connected devices, turning the speaker into a small desktop hub as well as an audio system.

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Edifier's New Cyber speaker thinks it's a gaming PC

 

[OortCloud]

Hmmm - bit too daft for me!

 

[Thatsdisgusting]

People became retarded consoomers with all these fish tanks+AIO+RTX

 

[UdyrL]

When you focus more on the aesthetics than the actual audio quality, you're just a boutique selling cheap speakers at a premium.

 

[passwordistaco]

"4-inch subwoofer"

 

[axiomatic13]

People became retarded consoomers with all these fish tanks+AIO+RTX

Hey man. Hope you are having a good day? Can you kindly stop using "retarded" as a pejorative slur? Thank you.

 

[VitalyT]

A subwoofer is a sound-volumetric device that cannot be tiny.

 

[Theinsanegamer]

Hey man. Hope you are having a good day? Can you kindly stop using "retarded" as a pejorative slur? Thank you.

No that would be retarded.

 

[Gezzer]

This discourse here needs more moderation. You are rude AF. It would be one thing to be rude to me or people here you don't like. IDGAF about that. But here you are using people's retardation as a pejorative slur on a whim. You're not a good person.

Using it in its original formal form as a designation for mentally challenged people is of course really insensitive and offensive. But it also informally means normal people who don't use their critical thinking skills effectively and make suspect decisions. This is the same as many other terms that are and can be used in different contexts. It's why while I seldom use terms that others could be offended by, I also don't "freak out", depending of course on context, when someone else does. IMHO I won't waste my energy getting into a useless flame war that doesn't actually create anything but animosity. But you do you friend...

 

[Gezzer]

I'm a big fan of Edifier especially when both Logitech and Altec decided to downgrade their product lines with nothing but overpriced poor performing speakers. Fact is I have 4 sets of various performance tier speakers that are Edifier. IMHO they produce some of the best bang for the buck speakers around.

In fact if I could afford a pair of their high end Airpulse speakers (start at a grand) I'd buy them in a heartbeat. That said I buy my speakers based on performance not flash, hell I turn off all my PC RGB. So yeah, hard pass for me, and a little disappointed that my favorite speaker manufacture would sink so low..

 

[passwordistaco]

Using it in its original formal form as a designation for mentally challenged people is of course really insensitive and offensive. But it also informally means normal people who don't use their critical thinking skills effectively and make suspect decisions. This is the same as many other terms that are and can be used in different contexts. It's why while I seldom use terms that others could be offended by, I also don't "freak out", depending of course on context, when someone else does. IMHO I won't waste my energy getting into a useless flame war that doesn't actually create anything but animosity. But you do you friend...

The literal definition of "retarded" is "slow", and it is from this definition that all other uses derive.

"We didn't advance the ignition timing on the engine, we retarded it."
"Traffic is retarded today."
"This software is retarded."

 

[axiomatic13]

The literal definition of "retarded" is "slow", and it is from this definition that all other uses derive.

"We didn't advance the ignition timing on the engine, we retarded it."
"Traffic is retarded today."
"This software is retarded."

Those are extended definitions. Here are the top two. Stop making apologies for jerks?

 

[Gezzer]

A subwoofer is a sound-volumetric device that cannot be tiny.

Actually, no, not always true. First off what's a woofer? Simply a speaker that handles the lower end of the human heard audio spectrum. A subwoofer? A speaker constructed and tuned to produce frequencies lower than what we can hear. So why are most subs really large? in fact often the better ones are bigger.

Well as you said the more air they can move the better they are with dealing with these lower frequencies. But it's also the tuning and materials used that designates a speaker as a sub. And in fact there are many subs that are quite small, especially in car audio. There are aftermarket subs that, while still having a fair amount of punch fit under a normal car seat.

Alpine PWE-S8

Compact powered subwoofer with 8" sub and 120-watt amp

www.crutchfield.ca