None of the above. As I've been saying I'm using something unique.
I've heard nearly all of the most expensive headphones and they are all unimpressive.
In the headphone realm, sound quality, rather than sound presentation is king, and none of the conventional technologies are good enough, even when developed at a high level.
My speaker tech has significantly better sound quality to traditional technologies and it has identical sound quality and sound presentation in both near field and far field so converting it into a headphone is identical to using them as speakers, also the bass goes down to 5hz with ease, even as a headphone. It can go to 1hz and still be pretty audible but I don't think that is a good idea for long term health of the diaphragm. I have some ideas to fix that but I'm not overly concerned about 1hz playback at the moment for obvious reasons.
I've heard nearly all of the most expensive headphones and they are all unimpressive.
In the headphone realm, sound quality, rather than sound presentation is king, and none of the conventional technologies are good enough, even when developed at a high level.
My speaker tech has significantly better sound quality to traditional technologies and it has identical sound quality and sound presentation in both near field and far field so converting it into a headphone is identical to using them as speakers, also the bass goes down to 5hz with ease, even as a headphone. It can go to 1hz and still be pretty audible but I don't think that is a good idea for long term health of the diaphragm. I have some ideas to fix that but I'm not overly concerned about 1hz playback at the moment for obvious reasons.
Am in Central NY so I'm kind of out of your geographical area.
Our little "microsolution" to the audio transcription problem is a new plug/N/play reproduce module for the Studer A80. Completely transforms the sound (from a prerecorded tape) versus the stock electronics. Gets the deck into the "audiophile world" of the 21st century. Of course there has to be a similar record card to complete the picture. Have to wait and see on that. One might ask why even bother? Answer - too much time on our hands.
That said, figuring out what and how to "launch" an idea, much less getting the idea realized into a tangible product is an immense effort. Not to mention, that if you should get your idea into a form that others could actually buy now how do you CONVINCE THEM that you have the answer to a problem that they don't UNDERSTAND to BE a problem? And then vote with their wallet????
Charles
Our little "microsolution" to the audio transcription problem is a new plug/N/play reproduce module for the Studer A80. Completely transforms the sound (from a prerecorded tape) versus the stock electronics. Gets the deck into the "audiophile world" of the 21st century. Of course there has to be a similar record card to complete the picture. Have to wait and see on that. One might ask why even bother? Answer - too much time on our hands.
That said, figuring out what and how to "launch" an idea, much less getting the idea realized into a tangible product is an immense effort. Not to mention, that if you should get your idea into a form that others could actually buy now how do you CONVINCE THEM that you have the answer to a problem that they don't UNDERSTAND to BE a problem? And then vote with their wallet????
Charles
This cannot be overstated.
My product would sell itself easily, but getting to the point of putting it in front of others is a HUGE task.
I could cure death and it would still be a huge undertaking to get it out to the public.
Also, Central NY is still within my realm. I would move to Siberia if it meant getting some help.
You can't hear 5hz nor 1hz...so there's no audibility involved at these frequencies...If ypu want to reproduce 1hz...i have no problem with it but i wander what sound are you going to reproduce at 1...5hz and who's gonna hear it.
I doubt you'd want it in the next few years if not decades if we're going to even survive the next comming weeks...Did you listen to the news recently? If you really plan relocating New Zealand , South Africa or Chile are much safer options, yet I doubt you'll have any clients in the next few years for any new revolutionary technology unless it's going to make it into weapon selling bussiness.
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Don't listen to google. It is easily audible. The "you can't hear below 20hz" is nothing more than a myth because most things can't properly reproduce these frequencies.
A simple sine sweep with my speaker tech will easily prove this.
Proper reproduction in this range also adds a whole nother dimension to the sound that isn't present in normal systems. It's difficult to describe but it adds real presence and physicality to it. It's also scary at times because such low frequencies keep triggering my spider senses that someone is in the room.
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So we're going to listen to a frequency generator or a moog synth then...I don't see the point for commercial music, but i understand that you're going to change the music industry standards.I have nothing against it but...as I said...maybe the army would be interested in such transducers more than the audio industry and now you can get better support for that cause it's war time ...
There's enough ultra low frequency content in many recordings to make a difference in this range. I don't know how much of it extends down to 5hz or whatever but it's low enough to make a big difference when the system can reproduce it cleanly and properly.
I find it hard to imagine that you are going to revolutionize sound reproduction with the help of someone with zero knowledge, but with the ability to think creatively and with a result driven mindset. How can a person like that get to know/understand the complete chain of sound recording and reproducing and the R&D you did in the last ten years within a reasonable amount of time? How could a person like that make it possible for you to spend (more) time on starting and running the actual business? How could a person like that even know that he/she is passionate about progressive audio research and development? To be able to know that, you must atleast know something about it, or?
But ofcourse I do hope that you succeed.
All I had was passion about finding the "perfect sound" when I started. I knew nothing about anything.
Through out-of-the-box first principles thinking I was able to very swiftly discover very potent solutions to things in ways no one else was thinking about.
I learned everything as-needed, and the bulk of the important knowledge is something that can be taught fairly easily as I have already done most of the work and know how to express it efficiently. What I don't have is the ability to physically, financially, or mentally work on everything I need to work on at the same time. I need to parallelize.
I could take another 10 years of my life and continue at the pace I'm going, or I can do it in 1-2 years as an additional person helping would certainly equal to more than the sum of its parts for my purposes.
None of this is even considering the fact that I plan to launch my business within the year, which is another burden.
Through out-of-the-box first principles thinking I was able to very swiftly discover very potent solutions to things in ways no one else was thinking about.
I learned everything as-needed, and the bulk of the important knowledge is something that can be taught fairly easily as I have already done most of the work and know how to express it efficiently. What I don't have is the ability to physically, financially, or mentally work on everything I need to work on at the same time. I need to parallelize.
I could take another 10 years of my life and continue at the pace I'm going, or I can do it in 1-2 years as an additional person helping would certainly equal to more than the sum of its parts for my purposes.
None of this is even considering the fact that I plan to launch my business within the year, which is another burden.
Skip South Africa. What about the Virgin Islands? Maybe Sir Richard Branson can help with the financing. After all, it was music and Tubular Bells that kicked off his career.
So I've read enough to bite. Earlier you were asked what type of headphone technology and you answered none of the above. So very basic question how do you move any air with your transducer?? What technique to pressurize the air?
Same as the other technologies, with pistonic motion. But there are some fairly large differences I won't get in to.
I've tried a bunch of other weird stuff, the only other notable one being thermoacoustic speakers using graphene but it was so expensive to develop that I could not confirm nor deny the full extent of its potential as I ended up igniting the material during some tests (whoops).
The current technology I'm developing has so many strange and attractive possibilities that I stopped working on alternative methods of air excitation.
I've tried a bunch of other weird stuff, the only other notable one being thermoacoustic speakers using graphene but it was so expensive to develop that I could not confirm nor deny the full extent of its potential as I ended up igniting the material during some tests (whoops).
The current technology I'm developing has so many strange and attractive possibilities that I stopped working on alternative methods of air excitation.
Many has ambition and self-confidence. Can you share anything that would make it plausible that you "are the one"...?
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By YOUR "standards"??!!! Have you tried to quantify "Value"? What's it's "Price"? Going to sell it mail-order from home? Would Wallmart want to carry it?
Have you shown it /do you have anything tangible to show to anyone to get a second opinion? If it's not "Vetted" somehow - it's worthless
Not sure how that's relevant since anyone interested in helping me would get to vet it themselves.
You don't need partners, you can't manage partnership, you need money to pay for your bussiness, people's secrecy, loyalty and experience.You just need to know what you want, know in what basket the market and money lies for your device and looking for the right people is best done on linkedin these days. If you can't find the people by yourself, either you pay someone to find'em for you or it means that your ideas can only be brought to life if someone else hire you to make your device for some wages.I have a friend who 18 years ago made a 5D software for prototyping industrial facilities.He couldn't sell the software to anyone so a Dutch company hired him to use his own software to design those industrial facilities (mainly microelectronic device manufacturing facilities in China, Malayesia and Taiwan).So he became a designer using his own software for about 8 years being payed pretty good wages for Romania and it was a very good bussiness because the Duch contractor asked him more and more things that required newer and better software functions and instruments.After 8 years he became a very good programmer and when the Duch company stopped the contract he found a fantastically well paid job in bank security systems designing both physical Suisse vaults and their security systems. Last year he gave up some 120k $ yearly wages (in Romania!) for staying at home and making his own AI software.As i know this guy very well I can bet he's going to make some of the most advanced AI the word have ever seen, but it might very well be that someone will employ him to make some AI security system employed in nuclear industry some day.
Imagine now this guy is an electronics engineer , made a 5d CAD software by himself, used it for 8 years and while working in programming bussiness he also built his 2 floors and 16 rooms concrete house by himself ...i mean he built it with his own hands litterally from top to bottom and he's also helping anyone in need with his money as he feels he doesn't need so much money anyway.I asked him once why he didn't pay for a company to build his house and he told me that he didn't have to work all the time as a programmer anyway and making his own house saved him half the money he would have paid to a company to do it for himself plus kept him in good physical shape.
There's always a way to bring to life very well regarded technologies if you have some bussiness instincts of yourself.
Imagine now this guy is an electronics engineer , made a 5d CAD software by himself, used it for 8 years and while working in programming bussiness he also built his 2 floors and 16 rooms concrete house by himself ...i mean he built it with his own hands litterally from top to bottom and he's also helping anyone in need with his money as he feels he doesn't need so much money anyway.I asked him once why he didn't pay for a company to build his house and he told me that he didn't have to work all the time as a programmer anyway and making his own house saved him half the money he would have paid to a company to do it for himself plus kept him in good physical shape.
There's always a way to bring to life very well regarded technologies if you have some bussiness instincts of yourself.
So Pistonic motion but doesn't use Dynamic, Electrostatic or magneplanar tech. What is the force that is used to create pistonic motion?
When someone appears in a thread on a DIY website claiming to have made revolutionary discoveries in audio technology it is reasonable to think maybe, with plenty of healthy skepticism. When they claim that the limits of human hearing have been wrongly assessed for a century or more and that the lower frequency threshold of normal hearing is two octaves lower than broadly thought it is reasonable to think sorry, nope. As frequency decreases from the mid bands the hearing threshold rises sharply while the threshold of pain decreases steadily. At 20Hz there is a mere 45 or so dB between the hearing threshold and the threshold of pain, compared to around 140dB in mid band. Assuming these relationships are valid by the time we drop two more octaves it's reasonable to speculate that the threshold of hearing and the threshold of pain are nearly the same. If your work shows hearing going down to 5Hz, I would speculate that your transducers must produce very high harmonic distortion in the 4th and higher orders.
