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DMC2.0, Dynamic Membrane Control

DMC2.0, Dynamic Membrane Control
A loudspeaker driver naturally wants to add its own behaviour to whatever signal reaches it: inertia, overshoot, delayed movement, coloration inherited from the material it is made of. Left uncorrected, these add up to the character that most listeners eventually learn to recognise as the sound of a particular loudspeaker. DMC2.0 is designed to prevent that character from forming in the first place.

How DMC2.0 works

DMC2.0 measures the diaphragm's actual movement in real time and compares it against the intended movement, the movement derived directly from the music signal. When the two diverge, the system corrects the driver before the unwanted vibration ever becomes audible. This is achieved through an electrical control loop that operates far faster than acoustic sound generation itself, so the correction happens before the listener has any chance to hear the error.

Placed at the chassis, not upstream

In a conventional design, the amplifier issues its commands from a distance, through passive components that blur and dissipate them along the way. The diaphragm, which is the part that actually makes the sound, then obeys those commands approximately, subject to its own inertia and its own tendencies. DMC2.0 places the driving intelligence directly at the chassis instead, governing the diaphragm's motion at the point where the sound is generated rather than upstream of it.

What DMC2.0 delivers

For the listener, the outcome is simple. More control over the driver's motion means more clarity in the output, and the paradoxical effect that the more the system works, the less the loudspeaker itself is audible in the result. In technical terms, DMC2.0 produces linear amplitude and linear phase reproduction through the bass path. In musical terms, it produces bass that arrives, bass that leaves, and does not linger like fog behind the music.

The 2.0 designation refers to a next generation sensor design that delivers roughly four times higher control precision than the previous generation of the same principle.

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How DMC2.0 works

Placed at the chassis, not upstream

What DMC2.0 delivers

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