AVB sets the standard for flat panel speakers with our new Sonix System Flat Panel Speakers. Now you can enjoy top quality sound from flat panel speakers. Our Sonix System Flat Panel Speakers are sleek design to your desktop, offering a new vision of high quality sound.

No longer do you have to sacrifice sound for looks in a flat panel speaker system.

• Subwoofer

5.25" High Quality Driver
Output: 20W RMS
Frequency Response: 50-200hz
Crossover frequency: 200 hz
Dimensions: 21 x 21 x 17cm (w x h x d)

• Satellites

Output: 2 x 6W RMS
Nominal Impedance: 4ohms
Frequency Response: 200-20000 hz
Maximum Thickness of the panel: 12mm
Dimensions: 25 x 12cm Max for panel
Base Footprint is within 9 x 9cm
Holds the panel 2cm higher than surface
Cable Length: 6ft

• Remote Control with holder

Function: Volume, Bass, On/off
Cable length: 8ft

AVB panels are for the most part diffuse direct radiators. That is, they produce sound by vibration of a panel. This vibration generates a complex random ripple of wave forms on the panel surface which in an ideal model radiate sound in a circular pattern from the panel. This is different from a standard cone speaker that if we consider as a piston produces a beam of sound which in a stereo field creates the so called "sweet spot" where the two beams interact most effectively. The circular wave form of the AVB panels means that the product has a very wide sound stage. That is, the sound levels are equal across a large listening area. The "open sound" of the AVB speakers has pleasant tonal qualities that particularly suit vocals. However, and most importantly when comparing AVB technology to nxt, AVB panels do also produce certain portions of its sound in a piston like way and have a broader frequency response because of it.

Other membrane based flat speaker technologies such as electrostatic or magna-planar produce sound from a membrane that moves with the sound wave. That is, also a piston effect which in these speakers produce an extremely beam -like wave form. There is a magna-planar product marketed under the brand name Monsoon where the beam is so pronounced that it only takes a small movement of the head to hear a definite difference in the sound. The key issue here though is that membrane technologies require an array of drive points which have inherent production cost issues.

With regard to performance versus power or design considerations AVB panels can be treated as conventional speakers. That is, when describing a 6W RMS satellite you will get equivalent sound pressure level from a cone or AVB panel. AVB speakers use a coil and magnet to excite the panel with equivalent impedance characteristics as cone drivers. Standard amplifiers need no special design considerations to drive AVB speakers. AVB speakers have very low distortion properties.

Current AVB models generate sound waves on one front panel with sound being heard both front and rear but the rear frequencies and volumes are different to the front output. Patents and prototypes exist of true bi-pole (radiating equally front and back) options.