
Opéra
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High-end directional loudspeaker
Interactivity
auto-adapted sound level
presence detector
Connectivity
airplay / wifi / bluetooth
RCA (Cinch)
Customizable
LED lighting
customizable colors
customizable equalization
programmable audio/video player

bandwidth
size
mass
attenuation
max sound pressure level
THD
energy consumption
75 Hz - 15 kHz (+/- 5dB)
660x660x560 mm
35 kg
-30 dB(A) @1m under the device
80 dB SPL @1m
0.001 @1kHz @80 dB SPL @ 1m
below 50 W (LED included)
Product history
A traditional HiFi speaker covers a wide listening area so that many people can enjoy the same sound quality, regardless of their position in the room.
Conversely, a directional loudspeaker focuses the sound in a privileged virtual cone in which only a small group of listeners is immersed, and outside which the sound is no longer audible.
Directional speakers are used in museums, restaurants, above interactive kiosks, or above stands in tradeshows, for example, to broadcast a TV soundtrack without disturbing the neighborhood.
In practice, laws of wave physics makes extremely difficult the association between high focusing and high sound quality. That's why most of existing directional speakers just can't creat a real musical bubble, but are limited to speech signals or specific sound effects, without bass.
Originally designed for the Montreux Jazz Festival, the directional loudspeaker Opera reconciles sound quality and directivity. Thus, the Opera is the first directional loudspeaker guaranteeing an immersion both localized and musically rish. The innovation is based on a patented signal processing algorithm developed at EPFL by the Hidacs co-founders.


Simulator
Choose a room configuration and listen audio excerpts produced by our simulator
Absorbant room, no noise
Reverberant floor, with noise
Opéra
ceiling
50 cm
2 m to the device
floor
4 m to the device
exactly under the device
Simulated through transfer function measured in anechoic room. Want to simulate your own audio file? Please contact us
Simulations obtained through transfer function measured in anechoic chamber. Want to simulate your own audio file? Please contact us.
Visit our showroom
Experience Opéra and various other Hidacs' products at our partner Ergostyle SA. We will be pleased to welcome you and exchange about audio & acoustics.
Chemin du Petit Flon 31
1052 Le Mont-sur-Lausanne
Switzerland
