AudioLai adopted this design choice to exploit the specific strengths of two types of transducers, thus optimizing the overall performance of the audio spectrum.
Dipole Woofer for Low Frequencies
Bilateral Radiation: Dipole woofers emit sound bidirectionally, both frontally and rearward. This allows for a more natural interaction with the environment, taking advantage of reflections and integrating better with the room.
Natural and Enveloping Bass: Thanks to their radiation pattern, dipole speakers can generate more "open" and less confined bass, offering a response that is particularly natural and free from unwanted colorations.
Resonance Reduction: The dipole design tends to minimize internal resonances and interference, contributing to a more faithful and controlled reproduction of low frequencies.
Compression Driver with Horns for Mid and High Frequencies
High Efficiency: Compression drivers are designed to produce high sound pressure levels with minimal disturbances, making them ideal for reproducing mid-high frequencies with great accuracy.
Directional Control: The use of the horn allows you to modulate and direct the sound beam. This leads to a controlled dispersion and uniform coverage of the listening area, reducing unwanted dispersion and ensuring better sound definition.
Clarity and Detail: The coupling of the compression driver and the horn allows for a detailed and clear frequency response, essential for reproducing sonic nuances in the mid and high frequencies.
Systems Integration
By combining these two approaches, AudioLai manages to:
Balance the Sound: Dipole woofers ensure natural, room-integrated bass, while horn compression drivers ensure mid and high frequencies are well-defined and directional.
Optimizing Efficiency: Each component is used at the frequencies where it excels most, allowing for superior overall efficiency and lower distortion.
Creating a Complete Listening Experience: The result is a sound reproduction that covers the entire acoustic spectrum with balance, clarity and naturalness, enhancing both the power of the bass and the precision of the high frequencies.
This design choice demonstrates a deep attention to sound quality and the harmonious integration of the various elements, obtaining speakers capable of offering high performance in every frequency range.
CHARACTERISTICS
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ACCURATE PHASE
“Phase” is a technical term that represents one of the pillars on which our work is based, and describes how sound is delayed over time. If this parameter does not reach the highest precision, as a consequence you’ll have a greatly distorted perception when listening. For this reason, it is essential that every single sound of a song does not have discrepancies in timing, so that listening is completely immersive and dynamic. In collaboration with Weiss we created aur AudioLai IL DIGITALE DSP which has innovative and smart functionality and helps precisely in this sense: like a highly advanced brain, it divides speaker sound into thousands of fractions and regulates timings for each one in order to offer to your ears the most sensational, faithful and balanced listening experience. What we have as a result, is an extremely realistic and living sound, really close to the way it comes naturally to our ears, simultaneously: the entire frequency spectrum reaches us, from very low to very high sounds, all at once.
LINEAR PHASE CROSSOVER
The path to the ideal “phase”, in order to satisfy our needs in terms of use, went through the observation and testing of “old style” crossovers, present in most hi-fi systems over the years. Passive crossovers which, by receiving the full, high-power signal directly from the amplifier and using large, reactive components (such as inductors and capacitors to split the signal), resulted in inadequate phase response, often also causing distortion and delays. Our systems use the power of AudioLai IL DIGITALE DSP (digital Signal Processing) to provide linear phase crossovers. Linear means that each driver works at his best and the cut is able to move quickly and evenly to the next driver, without creating voids in the crossover regions, but merging, connecting perfectly. The crossover cut takes place before the power amplifiers and as a result each section gains a dedicated power amplifier, connected directly to the drivers, for extraordinary precision.
ROOM CORRECTION
All this research and knowledges in the technical aspects of a high quality hi-fi systems would be in vain if the right attention was not paid to a basic and often very neglected aspect in the creation of a domestic system, that is the environment. Sound keeps moving in the room, reflects and bounces off surfaces. If sound waves are not controlled, the sound can build up to produce annoying distortion and boomy bass. We can manage these possible environmental problems with our systems, through a correction filter we have developed: each system is set in place by one of our specialists, your room will be carefully evaluated through a series of environmental measurements. The system will be adjusted to your home environment to ensure a flawless sound stage.
