Working on products at these price points we could really have some fun. The speakers have transducers on every surface with dual front firing miss and a pure aluminum dome tweeter, another set of mis and tweeter on the rear to increase the sense of size of the soundstage, and then an integrated powered subwoofer and 2 more side firing bass radiators. To encapsulate all of that the grille had to wrap 360 degrees around the product. The best solution but a bit of a challenge as most other speakers show off their drivers like jewelry. To tell the story of the aluminum dome tweets we machined the base out of aluminum and added machined lock knobs, floor pads and carpet spikes. The top of the speaker is another piece of machined aluminum. this part is held on with hidden magnets. You actually pop it off to add dock in a DTS X / Dolby ATMOS height module that fires sound waves upward and bounces them off the ceiling to give you the illusion of objects like helicopters moving over you in home theater and video game experiences. You have to pair it with a receiver that can process three dimensional audio, but the effect is really something.
Launch video with Sam Fogarino from Interpol:
Behind the scenes with the design and engineering teams:
series micro site:
http://www.definitivetechnology-bp9000.com
