Thiết kế AB1266
Thiết kế AB1266
Thiết kế AB1266
The AB1266 is all about the sound. Our goal was to capture the sound of the finest speaker systems and music reproduction rooms in the world. Most importantly, they had to convey music as naturally as if you were sitting in the room with the band. This was a huge undertaking for a small company.
The first thing you notice when you hear the Abyss AB1266 headphone is what the human brain is so good at recognizing, natural musical sounds, freedom to the music. The headphone is not producing weird sounds that tell the brain it’s a headphone. Instead, you hear cymbals ring out in time without hard metallic sounds, guitar strings resonate inside the guitar body, not some tubby or tin box. Drums have real impact, you hear the rolling of the drum skin, not a thump and it’s over. Bass is powerful and impactful like a big speaker system with subwoofers in a well tuned room.
Hãy bắt đầu với thành phần quan trọng nhất, loa hoặc trình điều khiển. Trình điều khiển AB1266 phải chuyển đổi tín hiệu khuếch đại thành chuyển động để tai bạn chỉ nghe thấy âm nhạc, chứ không phải một số loại nhựa hoặc kim loại rung động. Làm đúng ở đây là điều quan trọng nhất và khó khăn nhất.
We started from scratch with an open mind, and used up nearly 5 years of our lives to create unique materials, magnetics, and acoustic design never before thought of in any full range headphone driver. This patented speaker design is unique to the world, hearing them in action is highly addictive and always exciting even years of ownership.
Tiếp theo là cấu trúc hoặc khung để gắn những trình điều khiển tuyệt vời này. Kiến thức sâu rộng của chúng tôi về thiết kế và vật liệu loa cao cấp cho chúng tôi biết những chiếc loa tốt nhất có cộng hưởng thùng loa tối thiểu, nghĩa là chúng không rung và tạo ra âm thanh riêng có thể ảnh hưởng đến độ trong trẻo tuyệt đẹp của trình điều khiển của chúng tôi. Thông thường với loa, điều này tương đương với một thùng loa nhiều lớp rất nặng, không phải thứ bạn có thể đeo như tai nghe.
Tai nghe thường chứa rất nhiều nhựa, bộ phận chuyển động, đủ loại linh kiện rời rạc tạo ra tiếng lạch cạch và tiếng ồn không phải là một phần của âm nhạc. Không đời nào chúng tôi để điều đó xảy ra ở đây.
AB1266 được thiết kế với khung cứng nhẹ, gia công từ nhôm nguyên khối. Hàng chục nguyên mẫu đã được chế tạo và ở mỗi cấp độ, độ phức tạp cao hơn đã đạt được trong kết cấu chống cộng hưởng và chi tiết nghệ thuật của nó.
Machining to this level of detail is nothing short of art in programming and tooling, so much so we use 4 CNC machines to manufacture all components in Buffalo, New York, USA. It was the only way to control the finished quality of what was to be the world’s finest headphone.
Once the main frame components were made and final assembly made rigid, some adjustability was necessary as every persons head is different. Trouble is adjustments mean vibration, noise, and points where failure ultimately occurs. We wanted the AB1266 frame to withstand most any abuse, never requiring maintenance or repairs due to broken parts; durability was key.
Engineering simplified the design to a single pivot point on the top of the headband, ultimately machining our own unique screw and slot design that allows not only width adjustment, but also height, toe in or out, and clamping force. Simpler is better.
So now we have the finest in planar speaker drivers, anti-resonant structure, and ability to adjust for fit. Next up is how to rest the AB1266 on top of various head shapes as comfortably as possible. In essence it had to float and act as a suspension system isolating head motion from the music, and what’s more comfortable than a hammock. We worked toward perfecting this shape, adjusting leather and foam thickness, suspension, so many small details so this relatively large headphone sits on any head feeling light and comfortable. We studied the forces at play using statics and physics to tweak right down to the way the leathers were stitched.
Last but not least was acoustics, how to create a near perfect miniature acoustic space as if you were listening to your favorite band in an open room. Ear pads, foams, surface shapes and dimensions all had to be experimentally derived over many thousands of hours of listening to many different genres of music. The goal was to ride a fine line between ultimate resolution and musicality while recreating as best as possible what can be perceived as the recording's original acoustic space. This is what audiophiles struggle to accomplish, spending years and tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars to reproduce.
In the end, all that is heard is a beautiful wave of natural lifelike music coupled directly to your ears in an acoustically fine-tuned space having the subtle details of the instruments, voices, and the room the microphones picked-up during the recording- Music in your own private space in the Abyss.
