Replacing size with speed: the Israeli company reinventing the speaker

Tel Aviv Diary Podcast · Sep 25, 2026 · 22m

For 150 years, every speaker ever built has worked the same way. Alexander Graham Bell put a membrane in a telephone, the membrane moved air, and we heard sound. Everything since has been a refinement of that idea.

Moti Margalit thinks there is another way. His company, Sonic Edge, has built what amounts to a very fast air pump, one that cycles 400,000 times a second at ultrasound frequencies and moves the same air a full-sized speaker moves. As he puts it, they are replacing size with speed.

Moti studied at the Technion, took his doctorate in lasers and electro-optics, spent two years at MIT…