4. DampHard construction:
What is DampHard?
As a designer, you try to design a cabinet that doesn’t resonate. Resonances cloud and distort the music, and locate your
speaker in space, causing you to hear the speaker and its location in the room rather than the music itself. Standard
design strategies involve putting heavy padding material inside the cabinet to dampen unwanted resonances. Excessive
internal dampening causes the lower frequencies to become muddy and distorted, giving a booming, humming quality to
the sound that removes the clarity of the bass. When you have excessive dampening material, you’re hearing the
padding instead of the music.
Alta’s solution to this is our proprietary material DampHard: a multi-layered, multi-density material that we use on the
front face driver board of the Lelantos. Where standard MDF or other materials would allow certain frequencies to
resonate, DampHard remains dead to virtually all vibration. This allows us to heavily cut down on a cabinet’s internal
padding, maintaining the clarity of the bass.
Coupled with our Alta XTL technology, DampHard allows us to create a truly superior cabinet that acts like a musical
instrument, extending the range and clarity of the bass, while keeping the cabinet resonance-free. This combination
creates an unparalleled bass response complete with all the clarity and dimensionality of the music.
5. XTL Bass:
What is Alta XTL?
XTL stands for Extended Transmission Line, an Alta Audio proprietary technology used in our speakers. We developed XTL
using specialized sonic geometry to tune our cabinets like musical instruments, allowing all our speakers to deliver
unprecedented clear, fast, and powerful bass.
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