SONIC CHAIR

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We settled into the Sonic Chair and can report that the sound quality is fantastic. Imagine you’re tiny enough to nestle into one of the padded cups of your favorite pair of headphones. Feel the beat reverberate through your body. That vibration is thanks to iBeam, a structure borne sound converter on the chassis that produces vibrations you’d usually equate with an early Pixies concert.

Jan Stuhn, in charge of project development and sales explains the “Heart of the chair is a sound system consisting of a three way speaker system, each with its own Class D state of the art amplifier.” Each of these is controlled by DSP (digital signal processing). “The lower frequencies are emitted over the ground directly into your body and we frame this by implementing the iBeam,” Stuhn says.
It’s easy to shut the world out when you’re literally cocooned in sound. The Sonic Chair is made in Germany from laminated sheets of wood to stabilize an arched enclosure with a volume of 35 liters.

The company explains: “We have developed a special structure-borne sound membrane comparable to a large loudspeaker measuring a meter in diameter. The membrane is perforated, which means it does not emit any audible sound waves but rather vibrations at extremely low frequencies.”

So if you’re playing a fast-paced action game and someone stabs you in the back, you’re going to feel it.

– A circular acoustic enclosure with 32 litre volume
– Equipped with Scandinavian-made loudspeakers featuring separate tweeters and midrange drivers as well as a centre subwoofer
– Support of the low frequency range from 16 to 40 Hz through silent physical vibration specially developed six-channel amplifier in patented class-D technology with integrated digital signal processor (DSP) to allow separate regulation of both high and midrange speakers, the subwoofer and the body-focused sound membrane