Hi there!
I stumbled upon a company called Syng and I didn't see it mentioned here. As I saw that some of you are interested in "innovation" in audio, I thought I would write a quick post about it.
So Syng was fouded in 2018 by Christopher Stringer, a former Apple industrial designer holding over 1400 patents (see Wiki) and Afrooz Family, a former Senior Audio Engineer at Apple that worked on the HomePod.
They just currently finished the presale of their first product called "Cell Alpha":
The specs on the presale page are as follow:
-Two woofers in opposing configuration
-Three-element, two-way beamforming array
-Three microphones for automatic room equalization
-Automatic multi-Cell geometry calculation
-Multiroom audio
-Multi-Cell playback in a room via SyFi
They claim that you could get 7.1 sound with three speakers only thanks to their "triphonic" sound system. The patent also include pictures of an app that would make use of AR to scan the room and adapt the sound in consequence (they are using Genelec as a testing speaker in the patent image ).
Price is $1499 and some websites are reporting they could license their technology to other manufacturers.
You can find a more detailed article on Protocol (https://www.protocol.com/syng-cell-speakers-spatial-audio).
The quite detailed patent looks interesting, and you can see multiple pictures of the app and the speaker itself: https://patents.google.com/patent/U...entor=christopher+stringer&assignee=Syng,+Inc.
This looks promising to me and I like to see more advances in the line of the homepod regarding spatial sound / "smart" speakers.
What do you think about it?
I stumbled upon a company called Syng and I didn't see it mentioned here. As I saw that some of you are interested in "innovation" in audio, I thought I would write a quick post about it.
So Syng was fouded in 2018 by Christopher Stringer, a former Apple industrial designer holding over 1400 patents (see Wiki) and Afrooz Family, a former Senior Audio Engineer at Apple that worked on the HomePod.
They just currently finished the presale of their first product called "Cell Alpha":
The specs on the presale page are as follow:
-Two woofers in opposing configuration
-Three-element, two-way beamforming array
-Three microphones for automatic room equalization
-Automatic multi-Cell geometry calculation
-Multiroom audio
-Multi-Cell playback in a room via SyFi
They claim that you could get 7.1 sound with three speakers only thanks to their "triphonic" sound system. The patent also include pictures of an app that would make use of AR to scan the room and adapt the sound in consequence (they are using Genelec as a testing speaker in the patent image ).
Price is $1499 and some websites are reporting they could license their technology to other manufacturers.
You can find a more detailed article on Protocol (https://www.protocol.com/syng-cell-speakers-spatial-audio).
The quite detailed patent looks interesting, and you can see multiple pictures of the app and the speaker itself: https://patents.google.com/patent/U...entor=christopher+stringer&assignee=Syng,+Inc.
This looks promising to me and I like to see more advances in the line of the homepod regarding spatial sound / "smart" speakers.
What do you think about it?