Brazilian architectural audio brand Magna Audio has won a CE Pro BEST Product Award 2026 for the Magna Audio Brutalist Pathway, taking the Best Outdoor Product category honours as the brand arrives at CEDIA Expo 2026 in Denver, running September 2-4 at booth 2042. The Magna Audio Brutalist Pathway is a concrete satellite speaker with optional integrated lighting, doubling as an acoustic element and a pathway light for indoor and outdoor projects, and it anchors a wider CEDIA presence that also includes two new in-wall and surface-mount lines.
The Magna Audio Brutalist Pathway, Concrete and Light Together
The Magna Audio Brutalist Pathway completes the brand’s Brutalist ecosystem, pairing with Magna’s 10-inch and 6-inch concrete subwoofers as a minimalist satellite speaker precisely tuned to balance with them. Its optional integrated lighting turns the same cast-concrete body into an architectural or pathway light, so a single handmade piece can carry both the low end of a home theatre system and the illumination along a garden path or entryway. The line ships in six concrete finishes – Black, Mattone, Terracotta, White, Dark Gray and Natural – plus a custom finish option that lets installers match the concrete surface to a specific project.
An Award Built on Form as Much as Function
The CE Pro BEST Product Awards recognise the Magna Audio Brutalist Pathway specifically for resolving concrete construction, integrated lighting and acoustic performance into one architectural element for outdoor spaces – the kind of “form, material and sound resolved together” language Magna uses across its Brutalist line, all of it handmade in Brazil. It is a similar brief to landscape and garden speaker systems elsewhere in the market, though Magna’s approach leans harder on raw material expression than on disguising the speaker as a rock or planter.
Two More Lines Join the Brutalist Pathway at Booth 2042
Alongside the Brutalist Pathway, Magna is showing Nano-Framed, a family of ultra-slim in-wall speakers for drywall and wood-panel installs that scales from a single-driver 1D version up to Array 2D, 3D and 4D configurations with tighter dispersion control, and Audio Pad, an ultra-slim 3-inch full-range speaker built into a Decora electrical faceplate for hallways, powder rooms and other spaces where a conventional speaker has never fit. Both lines share the Brutalist Pathway’s emphasis on disappearing into architecture rather than sitting on top of it, with a wide range of cabinet, grille and finish options for each.
Magna Audio joins a growing field of custom-install brands using CEDIA 2026 to show architecturally integrated speakers, a similar brief to the Klipsch landscape speaker system shown earlier this year, though the Magna Audio Brutalist Pathway’s concrete construction and integrated lighting set it apart as a genuine outdoor architectural element rather than a speaker dressed to blend in.
Pricing and availability
Magna Audio has not published consumer pricing for the Brutalist Pathway, Nano-Framed or Audio Pad; all three are sold through custom-integration channels and dealers, with full specifications available on request via Magna Audio’s official website. Visitors to CEDIA Expo 2026 can see the Magna Audio Brutalist Pathway and the rest of the lineup in person at booth 2042 in Denver through September 4.
Key specifications
- Product: Magna Audio Brutalist Pathway concrete satellite speaker
- Award: CE Pro BEST Product Awards 2026, Best Outdoor Product
- Feature: optional integrated lighting (acoustic + pathway light in one unit)
- Finishes: Black, Mattone, Terracotta, White, Dark Gray, Natural, plus custom
- Pairs with: Magna Brutalist 10-inch and 6-inch concrete subwoofers
- Also shown at CEDIA: Nano-Framed in-wall speakers (1D to Array 4D), Audio Pad Decora faceplate speaker
- Construction: handmade concrete, made in Brazil
- Event: CEDIA Expo 2026, Denver, CO, September 2-4, booth 2042
