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hello guys today I have a very special guest with me he took the long way from California to Vienna to visit us please welcome the main engineer of Riva and audio design experts do not move hello all thank you my pleasure to be here thanks for coming please don't introduce yourself what are you doing what's your job sir my name is Donald North and I am the president and chief engineer for audio design experts as well as our own brand Riva audio and I head up the product development and engineering teams so I've been responsible for the transducer design the acoustic tuning making sure everything sounds fantastic and functions smoothly with all the software controls and features so basically this is your baby yet with other words yeah you designed it until CUNY yeah I'm the inventor of the trillium algorithm which up mixes the two-channel stereo into three channels and we output the three channels over a left center and right facing speaker and the three channels work together in the turbo X with two passive base radiators and a front and two in the rear to create a much larger stereophonic sound especially when enjoyed indoors okay we already heard how the turbo X sounds so it's quite an impressive speaker it's very loud much louder than the competition thank you so please tell us what's the what's the problem of designing such a speaker what do you have to overcome to make it sound good sound loud event yeah certainly so with with small speakers there is just very little acoustic volume and with loud speakers you always have to trade off between efficiency little frequency extension and an output level and so and enclosure size and so we have to define what's the right balance and and we start by developing the transducers in-house so we do everything from designing the diaphragms the frames and magnet structures the boy squeals all the components to make the speaker transducers have as much frequency range as they can for their size as well as maximum dynamic range and linear excursion for their size so it's all building in-house it's not nothing built somewhere in I don't know where no yes designed and yeah so we do all the initial product design at our offices in Southern California in Fountain Valley so we do the transducer design we do the industrial design which covers how the product works with all the details we of course do all the acoustic design and then we also do the electronic design with our manufacturing partners okay and so we are partnered with two large manufacturers oh diems out of Taiwan one is named West Iran and the other is named East Tech and so they are both investors in ADX as well as manufacturing and development partners in auras and what do you think makes the turbo X better than the competition of what did you manage better than the others so I'm a long time - thews iasts and have a nice big stereo at home that takes up half the living room and and so when we develop the turbo X we wanted to create a speaker which would be what we thought would be more authentic to the recordings more honest to the recordings and try to give more of the hi-fi type of sound but in a modern miniaturized form factor so no fake bass or fake effects no none of that and so we we do the trillium algorithm processing about mixing the two channels and the three channels but besides that insome equalization we do no other funny processing to the music we wanted to come through as honest - the recording as and as the artist intended I think the best part about that turbo X is that it keeps the best bass level always the same even a top volume there is no bass reduction no compression and I think this well makes you different or better than most competition which tends to mix because that pretend to sound good at lower levels exactly as soon as you start cranking them a little bit they're falling apart so now you have brought something interesting yes I came all the way to Austria to give you a sneak peak of our our new baby so what's this this is the new Riva s so this will be coming out the summer this is the the baby brother to the turbo X oh okay so we've got similar technologies we've got a seven speakers around three active or passive whereas the turbo s Lemmons p7 yeah seven speakers so we've got in the turbo X we have sixty millimeter transducers in the in the S we go with forty millimeter and again we designed them all in-house from the active transducers and the passive radiators again to have as wide a frequency range and that and dynamic range as we could for their size so we know we got active on the left center right and passive radiators on the front and the rear we have the similar style of capacitive touch controls on the top with the proximity sensors so when you move your hands to it all the buttons illuminate and you can do all the controls we have microphones for speakerphone does it have some IPX weighting like what does this one is it intended to be an IP x3 we're still in the early phases of testing but so far everything's looking very encouraging social splash it showed me yeah it should be no problem bye-bye your swimming pool or on the boat or even during rain or exactly should be no problem and this one like on the X we have a removable cover that seals up and protects the oakley io area for the auxilary input USB data and that is stored on the bottom regularly and then when you need to use it you just take it off and fit it into the back okay okay so why do you think that turbo s is better than the competition well again we we we we took everything we learned from the turbo X and try to miniaturize it and then work even further on the acoustic tuning such that it sounds fantastic at low volumes medium volumes and then volume and that goes from developing the transducers to the mechanical design and and in the structures so that it doesn't resonate a vibrate to the custom-designed electronics that we did that allows for very high peak power so that we can get the natural dynamics of the recording no compression like on the bows no no no we really try to show through the natural dynamic range from there okay okay let me blab that I already heard that well it's a pre sample but it sounds impressive it's definitely one of the best speakers that sighs I've heard so far so when can we expect it to be available so our plan is to have it available in late summer is when we'll be starting production and then we'll have it released worldwide as shortly thereafter hmm and it will be available on three colors sweet girls have it okay no white and silver just like you see with the turbo X we will also have a white and gold well with the gold grill and then we will have the dark grey with a Russian version gold okay thanks a lot for almost led you to be here this is a beautiful time here in Austria ah so guys you've heard if you're interested in some portable speaker wait a little bit I think the turbo s could be a game-changer for this market thanks Donald for coming thanks for watching uh yeah bye-bye fly