Bass-Boosting Compact Cabinet Design To Get Hearing At Expo
By Joseph Palenchar -- TWICE, 8/24/2009
CEDIA Expo 2009 Norwood, Mass. - A new speaker-cabinet design will deliver targeted bass output with smaller drivers in 50 percent smaller cabinets, according to speaker suppliers Solus/Clements and Atlantic Technology.
The design will also potentially reduce manufacturing costs for suppliers, the companies said.
Solus/Clements invented the design, called H-PAS (Hybrid Pressure Acceleration System). Atlantic Technology will license the design to other companies and collaborate on additional design development with Solus/Clements.
Atlantic will demonstrate a proof-of-concept model at September's CEDIA Expo, where it will pack two 4.5-inch drivers in an enclosure of about 1.4 cubic feet to produce bass that extends to 29 Hz (-3dB), the company said. The speaker's sound pressure level will exceed 105dB with harmonic distortion at less than 3 percent. "Conventionally designed loudspeaker systems would require bass drivers of at least triple the size in an enclosure at least twice as large to produce comparable performance," the company said.
Atlantic will ship its first H-PAS product, the H-PAS-1 floorstanding speaker, in the fourth quarter. Solus/Clements will deliver a tower and bookshelf model early next year.
The completely passive patent-pending design requires no active electronics and no special drivers, and it's compatible with conventional amplifiers and A/V receivers, Atlantic said. H-PAS combines elements of bass-reflex, inverse-horn and transmission-line cabinet design, the company explained. The designs "are cascaded one to another to pressurize and accelerate low frequencies," and the audio signal is passed through a passive resonance/harmonic distortion line filter, Atlantic continued.
"This new system," Atlantic president Peter Tribeman contends, "is the first ever to break the famous iron law of loudspeaker design." That law, he said, states that among three major goals of speaker design - deep bass extension, a compact enclosure and good efficiency - speaker designers must chose two at the expense of the third. "For the very first time, due to [Sonus/Clement designer] Phil Clements' breakthrough design, we can have them all," Tribeman said.
H-PAS "has applications in almost every corner of the loudspeaker business," he added.
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I have had the pleasure of listening to the HPAS speakers in Phil's studio. Simply amazing with lows that will knock your socks off. I can't wait to get my pair.
Eric O'Mara - 2011-7-10 22:47:22 EDT -
You'll have to view all of Philip's products at www.solusspeakers.com . There is no comparison!
Laura Hamann - 2009-1-9 17:04:30 EDT -
Say what you will, but I have experienced a demo of the floorstanders in Phil's lab and I was amazed, not the first time that he has done that to be sure. Phil is a treasure to this industry and he truly deserves more credit and respect than he gets. I'm glad Peter is giving him the support he needs to get more exposure for his groundbreaking designs. The amazing music that he coaxes from some pretty common materials continually blows me away!
Loren Roetman - 2009-26-8 01:57:36 EDT -
Are you sure this model is not a Lirpa successor?
Fred Nebbish - 2009-24-8 17:12:15 EDT -
The future is here!!!
This is a great product. CEDIA HERE WE COME.
Amar Bose - 2009-24-8 15:41:04 EDT
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