Panasonic Announces Hyper-advanced Bass Reproduction from Compact Speakers

Now this is really interesting: will our mobile phones sport subwoofers? I mean, subwoofers that really sound like most serious bass machines and not like crappy bass drivers in stupid audio gear sold by the ton? Panasonic says they will…

Yesterday, in a fresh press release the Osaka crew announced that they are currently working on some new technology that will dramatically change the way small devices and small speakers work their way with the low-frequency sounds. Since the powerful bass sound is a direct function of the quantity of air being moved by the woofer's cone with a certain number of cycles per second, things are a bit unclear, especially as we read carefully the words of the Panasonic boys.

They claim that the new technology, named the Nano Bass Exciter, will be able to reproduce high fidelity sound even in small-scale speakers... most likely including the speakers on mobile phones and other handheld devices. Panasonic proudly "threaten" the industry that their new Nano Bass Exciter-equipped gear will be able to deliver pretty much the same sound quality as the AV racks in your living room!

Now, isn't that cute? What could be neater than the fans of the multimedia-enhanced mobile phones being capable to finally get the right sound from their terminals? Supposing the technology will work, we could face a small revolution in the way we work with LF-sound in the small-device world... even if we were to take a closer look to the scarce data Panasonic managed to make publicly available, things are a bit Star Trek-y..

The Osaka guys claim that "Nano Bass Exciter physically absorbs the air molecules and decreases the air pressure, allowing the diaphragm in a compact speaker to move in the same manner as the diaphragm in a large loudspeaker cabinet." - Again, isn't that cute? What's next: the "interdimensional hyper-molecule bass absorption with transektomorphic ultra-stage bottom-end wooferization"? Until we find out more about what's really going to happen and how the Nano Bass Exciter will work, I think we shouldn't be that excited as some guys on certain Japanese forums.

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