IO DESIGN

Some loudspeakers manufacturer, sooner or later, will copy us; it is part of the innovation process we launched, but they will always be followers…

 

The NAKED loudspeaker is an innovative approach to high-end reproduction, targeting to completely cancel the negative influence that the box produces on the speakers’ sound.

Even though some loudspeakers’ enclosures are rigid, thick and sturdy, they always color the sound with their own signature and this is not what a true perfectionist wants to happen in his listening room.

People is so used to these colorations and compressions that not even appear to notice anymore… until they listen to the IO DESIGN NAKED loudspeaker… well, welcome in a new world of listening.

 

We innovated the way of doing speakers, radically improving Dynamics and the realism in the reconstruction of the musical event. IO DESIGN uses the listening ambient to output and tune sound instead of creating a distorted view of the sonic message inside the speaker’s box. This is one pillar.

 

After painfully long sessions (years) of measuring, comparing and testing, we managed to recreate a perfect emission in all the frequencies spectrum, without denaturizing the source of the sound.

Generally speaking, the back-port design loudspeakers suffer of a non-realistic sound, and this happens because of a dynamic compression and because they “force” the sound on the radiant surface of the speaker itself, due to the box constrictions.

That’s why manufacturers race for more rigid and damped boxes, this raises costs without completely solving the issues.

 

In the NAKED loudspeakers, instead, all the transducers play in a perfectly coherent way without any interference with one another and without any compression from a big box behind.

To understand the difference in performance between the IO DESIGN NAKED and the rest of the speakers, just imagine how it might feel like to be running with a heavy diving suit and then taking it off and to run with normal running apparel… wow! Relief at last!! air, power, speed, control, easy driving… well you are right, that’s exactly what happens with the NAKED loudspeaker when you drop the big boomy box behind!

 

Audio fans are sadly used to the perception of sloppy bass frequencies, in fact the bass range is one of the most criticized areas in old concept speakers; and they are also used to a quick decay of the sound pressure in the space (and these two aspects also bring compression and artifacts on the harmonics structure). For instance, think at a guitar playing in a garden, at normal volume you listen it from many meters away, while a loudspeaker at the same volume decays very quickly.

Instead in the NAKED loudspeakers the sound pressure is constant independently from the position and the distance, in a very similar way to how a real instrument sound in a domestic ambient… and this preserves harmonics too.

 

The chassis structure is reduced to the minimum, the structural rigidity is maximized (given a reasonable limit of 80 kg. per speaker…), the resonance frequency of the speaker is strictly controlled (contrarily to what happens with traditional boxed speakers).

 

All these solutions make the rise of sound very fast and natural like in live music and the harmonic decay extremely accurate; way better than old concept speakers, you will understand.

 

The NAKED was designed to give to the listener the possibility to fine tune the emission on Mid-High frequencies in order to adapt to the listening room and to your optimal listening point.

The IO DESING NAKED loudspeaker also grants a higher degree of freedom because it is not so directional as most speakers are, you will find easily your magic spot but the performance from the seats aside will not change much, contrarily to what happens with most loudspeakers out there.

The bass range was designed so to allow personalizations making the NAKED able to adapt better to different amps and room acoustics. These are proprietary devices (pat. Pending) able to adapt the bass frequency range in most listening ambients. To achieve this level of accuracy we needed a high level of specialization in systems tuning and room acoustics.

Power is nothing without control.