Ikea’s Most Popular Shelf Just Got Its Perfect Speaker Match

Eversolo enters the passive speaker world with the SE100 – square bookshelf speakers designed to slide straight into Ikea’s iconic Kallax system.

Eversolo is best known for its sleek, touchscreen-heavy streaming DACs and amplifiers, but the brand is now stepping into more traditional hi-fi territory. Its latest product, the Eversolo SE100, marks the company’s first-ever passive bookshelf speakers — and they come with a twist that’s as much about interior design as it is about sound.

Instead of the usual rectangular cabinet, the SE100 uses a perfectly square enclosure, engineered to fit snugly inside one of the most popular pieces of furniture on the planet: Ikea’s Kallax shelving system.

Hi-Fi Meets Flat-Pack Living

If you’ve ever owned a Kallax, you know the problem: it’s great for vinyl and books, but awkward for speakers. Most bookshelf speakers either stick out or need stands, breaking the clean modular look.

Eversolo’s solution is simple and clever: build speakers that treat the shelf itself as part of the system.

The SE100 is sized specifically to drop straight into a Kallax cubicle, creating what Eversolo calls a “modular fusion of audio equipment and home décor.” In other words, your speakers finally look like they belong in your living room, not your recording studio

A Proper Two-Way Design

Design gimmick aside, the SE100 is a serious hi-fi product. Each speaker features:

• 1-inch silk dome tweeter

• 5.25-inch paper-pulp mid/bass driver

• Front-firing bass port (ideal for shelf placement)

  
  

The front port is key here. Because the speaker sits inside a cubicle, rear ports would choke airflow and kill bass response. The SE100 avoids that problem entirely, making it unusually well-suited to tight spaces.

Easy to Drive, Easy to Pair

The SE100 is designed to work with real-world systems, not just exotic audiophile gear:

• 4-ohm nominal impedance

• 88dB sensitivity

• Recommended power: 20–100 watts

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That means almost any decent integrated amp or streaming amp will drive them comfortably. Eversolo naturally suggests its own Play streaming amplifier, but you’re not locked into their ecosystem.

This makes the SE100 a genuine plug-and-play option for people building their first “proper” hi-fi system.

Minimalist Looks, Modern Touches

Visually, the SE100 sticks to Eversolo’s design language:

• Deep black finish

• Magnetic fabric grilles

• Subtle metallic driver rings

• Softly rounded cabinet edges

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They look modern without being flashy — more Scandinavian living room than man cave hi-fi rack.

Price & Positioning

At $499 per pair, the SE100 sits at the top end of the “budget” bookshelf category. It’s not impulse-buy cheap, but it’s far from premium territory.

In practical terms, the SE100 targets:

• Apartment dwellers

• Vinyl beginners with Kallax storage

• Design-conscious listeners who hate speaker stands

  
  

And that’s a surprisingly large audience.

The Bigger Idea

The Eversolo SE100 isn’t trying to be the most accurate speaker in the world. It’s trying to solve a real problem that almost nobody in hi-fi talks about:

Most people live with Ikea furniture. Hi-fi gear usually ignores that.

By designing a speaker around one of the most common shelving systems ever made, Eversolo has created something genuinely new:a bookshelf speaker that treats modern living spaces as the default, not an afterthought.

If the sound quality lives up to the concept, the SE100 could quietly become one of the most influential “lifestyle hi-fi” speakers of the decade — not because it’s revolutionary, but because it’s finally practical.