This is a novel, but potentially “audio” and “home cinema” revolutionising product that I saw prototyped on TV several years ago.
The concept is a simple one
Instead of having large and bulky loud speakers sat on stands and taking up room, you have flat panel speakers that can be disguised to look like pictures. paintings, or flat un-obstructive panels on a wall.
The speakers are only a couple of inches wide, but can have an expansive frontal area.
The speakers work by using ELAC NXT exciters (see http://www.1388.com/articles/elac-panel-eng/index.html) that oscillate at high frequencies to produce sound.
Sound Quality
How good the sound quality is, I do not know, and it seems hard to believe that the audio quality could equal serious hi-fi products that require large boxes and powerful drivers.
Even so, this is a technology that has the potential to shape and change the speaker systems that we use and, with the options to buy them inclusive of artwork, they look set to have a broader appeal.
Current speaker sizes seem to range from just under a half a metre square, to approaching a metre square.
At this moment in time the marketing of these products seems fixed on their dual functionality as art and audio equipment.
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