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the VP of design for gra audio uh and
we're going to talk about the uh uh pbs1
which is our uh passive bookshelf system
um this is a uh
a pair of bookshelf speakers that we've
been uh working on for the past uh 18
months that are just on that have been
on the market September this year um
they originally designed for green rims
at the Capitol Theater um when it
reopened in Fort Chester New York in
Upstate New York and that's a famous
famous venue it's a it's a famous venue
um the you know back in the uh 60s uh
the dead plate there a lot uh Bob Dylan
you know uh all those parest of that era
um we had an opportunity to do a uh
provide a a listening solution for their
green rooms um and and uh couldn't
really pass it up um so we uh designed
uh and built the first set of these uh
speakers uh in our uh Shop in
Pennsylvania um and once we got to
listen to them and the artists got to
listen to them uh we decided we had a
product on our hands um and it's and
what's the most unusual thing about
about the speaker well about the the
speakers and our our our brand in
general um the the outstanding design
feature uh of all of our products is uh
reusing solid wood as uh as a part or as
the entirety of the acoustical enclosure
um and we use that both for uh for
design for a design for design reasons
um as well as for performance reasons
right acoustic reasons yeah acoustic
reasons this is something that the
speaker ini has known for a long time
but has kind of got away from Recently
yeah I'm sorry well this is something
that the speaker industry has known for
a while well but has got away from you
know sort of modern digital stuff yeah
well I mean the you know you find uh
solid woods and plywoods in very
high-end speakers um because the you
know the that part of the market can
typically afford those kind of materials
what we're doing is bringing that kind
of construction to the consumer Market
yeah and it it does provide uh what what
the solid wood does is it helps to
attenuate a lot of the high frequency uh
sounds throughout the material itself
rather than just reflecting it back into
the acoustical chamber right and that
provides a much warmer and richer sound
than you can find with a composite or a
plastic enion yeah yeah um so uh the the
bookshelf speakers um were we have uh uh
the solid wood top and bottom plate to
help do that they also help to isolate
the uh the grill so it doesn't rattle
around and then with our portable
speakers and our headphones we actually
use the wood as the
acoustical yeah and is that the only
wood uh Bluetooth speaker on the mar
maret yes uh well it's the only solid
wood there is there are some plywood uh
and bamboo speakers out there but it's
the only one that's actually using solid
uh wood as the accusal enclosure
completely and I can attest the fact
that it sounds remarkable it sounds
better than the jam books we did it like
an AB
test I am glad you said that yeah no it
does it's um you know besides just the
acoustic acoustical uh enclosure with
the solid wood uh we're using a Sound
Processing Suite on there that really
helps us
um open up uh the the the Sound Stage um
and really control uh what's going on
with the with the music and you said
most of the parts for for the speakers
are um custom build yeah the the the
bookshelf speaker I mean down to the
screws themselves they're they're cut
for us uh uh custom um all of the
drivers the drivers of tweeters
crossovers those are all made um to our
specs uh from the material up so what
we're doing with um each of our the the
what we're trying to do with each of our
speakers is create an optimized uh
acoustical environment by controlling
and by controlling all of the parts that
go into it so we're not selecting
anything off the shelf um that that
affects the sound and that's in contrast
to other manufacturers who tend to go in
and pick stuff on yeah typical mode is
to go into a factory or a manufacturer
in Asia and start picking stuff off the
shelf um and what we did is we came in
uh with prototypes built um uh by our
acoustical engineer and uh then we built
we worked with the with the
manufacturers to build all the materials
from the ground including the software
too right uh the software um no the
software uh for the Bluetooth speaker
we're using a product called waves Max
audio um which is uh a it's the same uh
it's the same uh company that makes uh
uh uh the software that lives on
recording uh Studio boards so the idea
is that the the music that's that's
coming out of the studio is being
processed the same way as it's coming
out of our speakers okay um and that's a
you know a partnership that we've had
since we started the
company helps us and so these are uh the
L speakers have been on the market for
how long and the loud speakers uh
started shipping in they started
shipping just a few months ago and how
are they doing great we have one pair
left in the right now all right well I'm
going to go buy them yeah yeah
definitely get on that now listen okay
cool well thanks very much thanks see
you
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