The Audio Ideology audio  / VIDEO reproduction ENVIRONMENT PROVIDES AN EXPERIENCE  NEVER BEFORE REALIZED IN THE HISTORY OF REPRODUCED SOUND AND IMAGES.

      OWNING THE Audio Ideology audio  / VIDEO reproduction ENVIRONMENT CAN NOT BE COMPARED TO ANY "HOME THEATER" OR EVEN THE MOST EXTRAVAGANT PROFESSIONAL ENTERTAINMENT VENUES AND HAS NO RELATIONSHIP WITH INDIVIDUAL PIECES OF EQUIPMENT or INSTALLATIONS IN AN EXISTING STRUCTURE.

      In fact, ALL ASPECTS AND EVERY DETAIL OF THE SMALLEST COMPONENT OF THIS VIEWING AND LISTENING ENVIRONMENT HAVE BEEN CUSTOM ENGINEERED, designed AND MANUFACTURED WITH ABSOLUTELY ZERO COMPROMISES AND WITH ONLY ONE GOAL, PROVIDING YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS AN ENTERTAINMENT EXPERIENCE OF A LIFETIME WHILE LISTENING TO MUSIC OR WATCHING A FILM!

      THE DESCRIBED LIST OF DESIGN FEATURES AND SPECIFICATIONS IS MEANT TO WHET YOUR APPETITE FOR TRULY HEARING DIALOG, MUSIC AND EXPLOSIVE SOUND EFFECTS UNLIKE ANY YOU HAVE EVER EXPERIENCED.

      EFFORTLESSLY REACHING THUNDEROUS CrescENDOS AND CAPABLE OF "PANTS FLAPPING" LOW FREQUENCY PERFORMANCE, THIS ENVIRONMENT MUST BE SEEN, HEARD AND "VISCERALLY FELT" TO BE UNDERSTOOD.

      THIS ENVIRONMENT HAS A WHISPER QUIET "NOISE FLOOR", FROM WHICH THE MOST DELICATE TRIPLE PIANISSIMO PASSAGES CLEARLY EMERGE. THIS SAME ENGINEERED QUIETNESS INSIDE ALSO EXTENDS OUTSIDE THE AUDIO IDEOLOGY  STRUCTURES, INDIVIDUALS OUTSIDE THE ENVIRONMENT WILL NEVER BE ANNOYED!

      THE HARD FACTS DICTATE THAT IN ORDER TO PROVIDE YOU WITH THIS LEVEL OF ENTERTAINMENT EXPERIENCE, YOU MUST HAVE THE PHYSICAL SPACE FOR THE DESCRIBED STRUCTURES AND THE ECONOMIC RESOURCES TO PAY THE BILL!

        TO PROVIDE YOU THE ABILITY TO DECIDE FOR YOURSELF IF THE CLAIMS WE ARE MAKING ARE TRUE, WE WILL FLY YOU (AND FRIENDS) TO OUR FACILITY IN VAN NUYS CALIFORNIA TO PREVIEW THE  AUDIO IDEOLOGY "ENVIRONMENT" (DEPOSIT REQUIRED).

        WHO IS THE AUDIO IDEOLOGY COMPANY AND HOW CAN WE BE MAKING THESE INCREDIBLE CLAIMS?

        IN 2003 THREE INDIVIDUALS WITH A TOTAL HISTORY OF MORE THAN 112 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN THE ENGINEERING AND MANUFACTURING OF AUDIO / VIDEO RECORDING AND REPRODUCING SYSTEMS, DECIDED TO COMBINE THEIR TALENTS AND FINALLY SOLVE ALL THE DISPARATE PROBLEMS ORIGINATING  FROM THE INVENTION OF THE GRAMOPHONE AND THE KINETISCOPE.

       THE THREE FOUNDING PRINCIPALS OF AUDIO IDEOLOGY:

       DANIEL SIEFERT, PRESIDENT ONE ON ONE TECHNICAL PRODUCTS INC., AUDIO ENGINEER 39-YEARS, ELECTRO ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCER SPECIALIST, LEAD DESIGNER OF JBL SYNTHESIS HOME THEATER SYSTEM, PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FOR SEVERAL MAJOR US AND INTERNATIONAL AUDIO COMPANIES, AES, ASA, ALMA MEMBER

        DAVID RIDDLE, PRESIDENT DRCO INC., INVENTOR / DESIGNER, AUDIO / VIDEO ENGINEER 37-YEARS SELF-EMPLOYED, MANUFACTURING AND VIDEO DISPLAY SPECIALIST, OEM MANUFACTURER OF PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTS AND TOOLS FOR FILM, AUDIO, VIDEO, ELECTRONICS AND SCIENTIFIC FIELDS, EMMY AWARD RECIPIENT (CO-PRODUCER, SOUND RECORDING).

        MARSHALL BUCK PHD,  PRESIDENT, PSYCHOTECHNOLOGY INC., AUDIO ENGINEER 36-YEARS, ELECTRO ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCER, ACOUSTICS SPECIALIST, CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER FOR SEVERAL MAJOR US AUDIO COMPANIES, 35-YEAR AUDIO ENGINEERING SOCIETY LIFE MEMBER, PAST PRESIDENT, TREASURER, FELLOW, AWARDED DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL, ACTIVE AS TASK GROUP LEADER IN AES STANDARDS CREATION FOR LOADSPEAKER TEST AND SPECIFICATION.

        THE FOLLOWING "WHITE PAPER" ALONG WITH THE PROVIDED DIAGRAMS AND ILLUSTRATIONS WILL HELP DESCRIBE WHAT THE AUDIO IDEOLOGY ENVIRONMENT IS AND WHY IT CAN DO WHAT NO OTHER AUDIO / VIDEO REPRODUCTION SYSTEM HAS EVER BEEN ABLE TO ACHIEVE.

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    In 1925 Chester Rice and Edward Kellogg completed research on the basic principals of the direct-radiator loudspeaker. Although there were many incremental improvements over the next 82 years, perhaps the biggest deficiency of all has never been corrected.

       No matter how perfectly designed a conventional speaker system is, it is powerless to overcome the sonic colorations imposed on it by the listening environment IT IS PLACED IN.

      There are three variable circumstances every loudspeaker will encounter:

1.          room VARIATIONS: This includes the geometry of the room, the room’s construction, materials used and furnishings placed in the room.

2.          Speaker placement: A multi-channel system means each speaker will perform differently due to their relative positions.

3.          Listener placement: Whatever sonic experience you may have you can be certain that no one else in the room will have the exact same experience. Unless you are very close friends.

      All loudspeaker designers are acutely aware of these issues. Much research has been devoted to measuring, quantifying and understanding these effects. The resultant knowledge has led to many innovative attempts to mitigate these problems.

      All OF THESE PROBLEMS RELATE TO UNCONTROLLED "NUISANCE" Variables. In an engineer’s world, UNCONTROLLED variables are the enemy. 

      All commercially available loudspeakers were designed to perform as well as possible in a wide variety of rooms and configurations.

      The loudspeaker and the audio reproduction experience are never optimum AND  THESE PROBLEMS CANNOT CORRECTED WITH EQUALIZATION!

      The AUDIO IDEOLOGY Audio / VIDEO Reproduction ENVIRONMENT is the first and only TOTAL SOLUTION which successfully mitigates the heretofore inevitable "room effects".

      This is accomplished WITH A DEEP UNDERSTANDING OF PRIOR ART IN AUDIO AND VIDEO RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION METHODS, Computer Aided Analysis (CAA), advanced Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and sophisticated manufacturing techniques.

      AUDIO TRANSDUCERS, VIDEO DISPLAY and the listening room are designed simultaneously, as a single entity. The design is completely compromise free.

      The optimum acoustic properties of the LISTENING AND VIEWING SPACE are under our control. The placement of the TRANSDUCERS is determined scientifically. Even the signal processing and amplification HARDWARE are designed specifically for the ENVIRONMENT.

      EVERY COMPONENT; STRUCTURE, ACOUSTICS, SOUND-PROOFING, SEATING, REMOTE CONTROLS, POWER, HVAC, LIGHTING AND FIRE SAFETY (PLUS MANY MORE) HAVE BEEN ENGINEERED AS A SINGLE ENTITY. 

      All of this would be an incredible improvement of the current state-of-the-art, but still not enough to be truly revolutionary. For THE AUDIO, you need a different kind of TRANSDUCER OR loudspeaker.

      The loudspeaker design which results in the highest possible accuracy is an "infinite line source".

      Each OF THE SEVEN MAIN channelS of the AUDIO IDEOLOGY Audio Reproduction System is comprised of a vertical array of transducers extending from the floor to the ceiling and built as an integral part of the wall.

      Since the ends of the line of drivers is terminated by the room boundaries the line behaves NEARLY as if it were an "infinite line".

      No other methodology achieves the consistent sound quality possible with an infinite line source.

      No other loudspeaker can match the effortless production of undistorted sound at any volume level.

      The AUDIO IDEOLOGY Audio Reproduction System truly redefines the state-of-the-art in sound AND VIDEO reproduction.

Q: What is the AUDIO IDEOLOGY Audio / VIDEO Reproduction System?

A: We are creating a sound source that is horizontally narrow and vertically quasi-infinite. The speaker’s height is equal to the room it is installed in. Extending the speaker to the vertical extents of the room creates a virtually infinite length speaker. The behavior of a truncated line source BOUNDED BY UPPER AND LOWER REFLECTING PLANES is identical to that of a true infinite line source.

Q: What are the advantages of an infinite line source?

A:

• The listener is always in the "near field". Because of this, the inverse square law DOES NOT APPLY. This results in a far more uniform listening level throughout the room
• The line is achieved with multiple drivers stacked vertically. The work is divided evenly among dozens of drivers
• A single driver rated at 50W becomes a 3,200 watt speaker
• Efficiency is raised 12 to 20dB
• Power compression is nearly eliminated
• Harmonic distortion is greatly reduced
• The remarkable power distribution characteristic of this design largely eliminates the shading effects normally experienced when objects are between the source and target
• The “sweet spot” is eliminated. Subjectively, all seats in the room will have nearly identical sound quality.

Q: Where are the speakers placed?

• A: AUDIO IDEOLOGY speakers are an integral part of the walls. Not merely speakers in the wall, the wall and the speaker are one and the same. The AUDIO IDEOLOGY is not a retro-fit system. The system is the room and the room is the system.
• Audio Ideology is architecturally neutral. Since the speakers are part of the walls there is no intrusion into the living space.

Q: Why are the speakers in the walls?

Remember, the goal is to eliminate UNCONTROLLED variables and optimize all aspects of the design. By placing the speakers in the wall, three primary reflection surfaces (floor, ceiling and the wall into which the speaker is installed) are NO LONGER UNCONTROLLED VARIABLES, BUT AND INTEGRAL PART OF THE DESIGN. This improves imaging and intelligibility.

Q: What about subwoofers?

In all but the largest installations four subwoofers will be used. Very large venues will have more, as needed to maintain our performance objective. Like the main speakers these are also in the walls, near the corners. Each subwoofer enclosure uses eight 12” drivers. This configuration equals the air volume capability of three 18” drivers but with over 4,000W of power handling capability. The complete system has the equivalent of twelve 18” drivers!

                                        Bullet Points

Ø    After CONSTRUCTION, INSTALLATION AND FINAL INSPECTION, ALL OF the audio / VIDEO systems ARE finely calibrated to achieve perfect ACCURACY over the entire listening AND VIEWING area.

Ø    The "LINE ARRAY" SPEAKERS ARE installed as an integral part of the theater walls. There is no intrusion into the PHYSICAL ROOM area.

Ø    Completely flush with the wall, this is an extremely neutral interior design element, easily concealed into the basic architecture of the room.

Ø    Each OF THE SEVEN MAIN channels will be capable of operating at over 2kW of continuous power, 21KW TOTAL. EACH OF THE FOUR SUBWOOFER CHANNELS will be capable of operating at over 4kW of continuous power, 16KW TOTAL

Ø   Additionally, the voltage sensitivity will be over 110dB @ 2.83VRMS @ 1M. With this high sensitivity and 2kW power capability, the system enjoys unlimited headroom capability.

Ø    The entire listening area is in the speaker system’s near-field. Unlike conventional speakers, the level drops only 3dB per doubling of distance (about 2dB in actual tests) rather than 6dB. This results in additional system sensitivity and greatly increases the optimum listening area.

Ø    The narrow transducer array results in nearly perfect flat power response.

Ø    Multiple drivers reduce distortion. In this application, the inherent harmonic distortion of the individual low frequency drivers is reduced over 15dB. The tweeters’ distortion reduction is more than 21dB.

Ø    All equalization, time correction and crossover functions are handled by 24 bit DSP processors, one per channel.