The original compact reference monitor, Auratone speakers were the brainchild of company founder Jack Wilson, who in 1958, debuted small cube-shaped studio monitors with a single 4.5-inch driver. While not exactly hi-fi, Auratone Sound Cubes offered a real-world representation of how your mix would sound on AM car radios or a mono TV set, and by the 1970's, were found in every recording studio worldwide. As TV and auto sound improved, these eventually fell out of favor, as the Yamaha NS-10 became the standard in small reference monitors. Today with the popularity of music playbacks on iPads, smartphones and computer speakers, Auratone Sound Cubes returned in 2015, this time by Wilson's grandson and other family members, and these lo-fi wonders are back in action to a new generation of studio users.