# We Linked 150 of Ikea’s $10 Speakers to Make a Wall of Sound

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/we-linked-150-of-ikeas-10-speakers-to-make-a-wall-of-sound/
- Published: 2026-10-25T09:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-25T10:12:12+00:00
- Original publisher: Wired
- Original article: https://www.wired.com/story/we-linked-150-ikea-speakers-to-make-a-wall-of-sound/
- Topics: Software

## Key points

- Ikea’s $10 Kallsup speakers linked up to 149 units.
- The setup took about 30 minutes.
- It got very loud, but lacked hi-fi sound.

## Summary

An Ikea speaker claimed to support linking up to 150 units had never been tested at that scale, so a London team built a wall of them to find out. The test showed that the Kallsup speakers could be chained from a smartphone in large numbers, demonstrating an unusual multi-speaker feature in a product aimed at individual households.

One speaker arrived damaged, but the remaining 149 linked successfully in about 30 minutes. Each costs $10 and has a 1.8-inch driver and a 3-watt amplifier, giving the array a combined rated output of 447 watts. The sound became very loud, though the reviewer described it as alarm-like rather than hi-fi quality.

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