Created like no other. Thousands have followed the extraordinary story of a world-class speaker developed in an open forum.

The traditional "No Entry" sign in the development department has been replaced by a "Welcome" and anyone has been able to join the project or just watch from the sidelines.

The result is an outstanding speaker with incredible sound.

Large group of enthusiasts have created the sound together with SA's development team

A team of 92 discerning enthusiasts has participated in the development of the speaker's sound. They have made numerous speaker evaluations and shared their wishes with the System Audio development team.

Never before has such a large group of users been directly involved in the development of a loudspeaker in this way.

The many inputs have been both innovative and challenging, but also a direct cause of the speaker's exceptional sound quality.

Award-winning blog shares knowledge

Ingeniørens readers are Denmark's sharpest minds and under the name Loudspeaker Q113 has a blog on Ingeniørens website has served as the place where the development project has unfolded.

All results and technical drawings are shared on the blog, which has won the respected Bording Prize for Digital Media.

Openness creates high standards

With the Internet as a development platform, everyone has the opportunity to look at and contribute to the development of SA pandion 2.

The work consists of everything from 3D drawing to building samples and acoustic calculation models, as well as measurement setups, sound samples and a lot of dialogue about technology and materials, etc.

Experts from many industries inspire each other and share knowledge across industries and the standard of knowledge is at a high, international level.

The high level of knowledge dominates the project and the openness of the dialogue constantly challenges the actors to chase better solutions.

Perhaps the world's best 13 cm woofer

Q113 Evolution is the specially developed woofer that makes SA pandion 2 deliver the outstanding sound quality.

It has an extremely powerful magnetic motor and the diaphragm has a travel of a wild 22 mm. This enables it to move 5-6 times as much air as a conventional woofer.

The diaphragm is made of wood fibres and has 10 recessed slits that eliminate resonances. A special coating on the edge of the diaphragm completes the speaker's acoustics and gives the sound extreme purity.

The fine nuances of sound are handled by an expert

The tweeter uses a bowl-shaped wave guide that effectively controls the sound dispersion.

It is optimised in every detail to reproduce the nuances of music with an accuracy.

The project's engineers made a special effort on the acoustics of the speaker's integrated cabinet and have achieved a new standard for sound nuances.

Handmade delicacies

The incredible ambition of the project has created some unique speakers that cannot be built by machines. The speakers are therefore entirely hand-built, to ensure the high quality.

Music fills the room

In the creation of SA pandion 2 exceptional attention has been paid to the speaker's ability to fill the room with music.

Meticulous work has been done with the audio industry's most advanced tools, to create a speaker that can give the listener a feeling of being in the middle of the music, with a rare presence in the experience.

Named after the osprey

Pandion is the Latin name for the magnificent osprey.

It finds its food over a large area, just as the speaker is created with inspiration from many different directions.

A design where sound has the last word

The speaker's design has an audible impact on its sound quality. That's why the team behind SA pandion 2 has worked intensively on the design's influence on the speaker's acoustics.

In the Loudspeaker Q113 project, advanced computational software has been used to illustrate the loudspeaker in a 3D universe and to work with its shape in all ways.

In this virtual world, the physical dimensions of the loudspeaker can be manipulated so that the design is favourable to the acoustics of the loudspeaker.

Computer simulated acoustics is a new concept, but also an extremely effective tool that saves the development team many fruitless and expensive test loudspeakers in the development process.

Groundbreaking blind tests done for the first time

A blind test involves comparing the sound of two speakers without knowing which one is playing.

This way you can assess the sound quality without being influenced by e.g. the speaker's construction, design etc.

SA pandion 2 is the first loudspeaker to be created based on blind tests at DELTA Senselab and their listening panel of musicians, sound engineers, studio technicians, acoustics students and ordinary people with good ears.

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