What do you get when you marry headphones with speaker technology? According to Sony, it’s these mad-looking headphones it likes to call “personal field speakers.”
These cans, which unfortunately look like some scary torture device from a sci-fi movie, are the new PFR-V1 personal field speakers, designed to make it feel like the music you're listening to on your MP3 player, is coming from in front of you.
The PFR-V1 create a listening field around your ears with music projected through two, 1in, die-cast aluminium speakers that are connected with a headband made of light-weight duralumin metal. You place the band on your head and the speakers seem “to float in front of your ears” by hovering just outside your outer ear.
These floating speakers deliver mid- and high-range audio frequencies directed at the outer ear while the bass comes through the ear canal via the extended bass reflex ducts. The effect is that the sound comes at you from the front, as if you were listening to your hi-fi.
Andy Bubala, director for personal audio accessories at Sony Electronics says:
“People who have digitised their music collections for storage on a PC want a better listening experience than their computer can provide. It’s our engineering and design that leads to the large, robust sound found in these new personal field speakers.”
They look they might snap in a strong wind so, if I was you, I’d get ready to treat them really gently because they’ll cost you more than £250 when they launch in April.-Martin Lynch
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