A metamaterial is a material that we synthesize
that has properties that we can’t find in nature.
In acoustics we use a lot of natural materials
to absorb sound, foams, or woodings, so we
can’t have a lot of control over what they do,
we just can select them. And the idea
of a metamaterial is that rather than trying
to find a natural material that does what
you want, you create an object that behaves like
the material that you really need.
So we’ve developed a metamaterial absorber
that’s a little bit like an acoustic black hole.
The sound goes into it and nothing comes back out.
We want to absorb the sound behind the drivers because we want to hear the music,
not any artifacts created by the driver itself or the cabinet.
So we’ve created a metamaterial
that can have a super capacity of absorption.
The Metamaterial Absorption Technology is
mathematically optimized to absorb the
maximum of sound in a minimum of space.
