U-1 is a minimal speaker created by Cincinnati-based designer Hank Beyer. What if we stopped thinking of audio products as temporary fashion, and instead as permanent utility? In a time of constant restyling and disposing, there is a vacuum for products which evolve with their surroundings, and grow with their users. By distilling product down to function, and culling aesthetic down to only the necessary, Universal is an attempt to rise above a temporary world and propose a vision for how audio products of the future should be.