| 1972 |
API's VP Engineering, Ian Paisley, designs a loudspeaker
that measures 30Hz to 20KHz +- ¼ dB, possibly
the world's flattest frequency response ever, but
Ian believes there is a way to improve performance.
More research is needed to find out how we listen
to and interpret sound.
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| 1978 |
API
forms an alliance with the Canadian National Research
Council (NRC) to study loudspeaker acoustics and how
they affect personal preferences |
| 1981 |
API
develops the Dual Hyperdome Tweeter, the first tweeter
to provide ultra-wide dispersion, taking a major step
closer to meeting the NRC's speaker design criteria. |
| 1981 |
A
prototype speaker is built with the Dual-Hyperdome
Tweeter to support NRC's findings. |
| 1982 |
This new speaker, named the Energy 22, receives the
highest test scores to date in NRC blind-listening
tests. |
| 1982 |
The
Energy 22 becomes the Category "C" Reference Speaker
for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. |
| 1984 |
Paisley
takes research further by testing speakers with rear
transducers that operate in-phase with the traditional
front-mounted drivers. In Double Blind listening tests
these prototype speakers achieve very high-test scores. |
| 1987 |
API
debuts the world's first Bipolar loudspeaker, the
Mirage M-1 at CES in Chicago. |
| 1988
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The
Energy 22 becomes the reference speaker at the U.S.
National Bureau of Standards |
| 1989 |
The
Mirage M-1 is rated "Speaker of the Decade" by Absolute
Sound magazine in the USA. |
| 1991 |
Energy
launches the ECC-1 Center Channel. North America's
first Center Channel speaker designed for home motion
picture sound. |
| 1991 |
Mirage develops the PTH Tweeter, the world's first
Titanium/Cloth Hybrid dome, setting a new benchmark
for low distortion. |
| 1993 |
John
Tchilinguirian, Energy's Design Chief, and his engineering
team, create the breakthrough Convergent Source Module
that debuts in the Veritas Reference v2.8. This revolutionary
dome midrange and tweeter combination provides extremely
coherent frequency response from 150Hz to 23KHz, resulting
in Ultra-Wide Dispersion and true Point Source Imaging. |
| 1993 |
API's
R&D Director, Stefan Hlibowicki, designs the twin-driver
Mirage BPSS-210 Servo- Subwoofer that reduces low
frequency distortion to less than 1% at 20Hz. A patented
Mirage Phantom/Real control is introduced on the LFX-3
Crossover allowing perfect center channel and subwoofer
blending with any high-end, multi-channel speaker
system. |
| 1996 |
API
introduces its patented Subtractive Filter system
that allows an active low frequency driver to be integrated
seamlessly with passive speaker systems. |
| 1996 |
Mirage
Introduces OMNIPOLAR Technology, an advancement of
Bipolar, in the OM-6. The OM-6 is the first speaker
with the same direct to reflected sound ratio as a
live musical event. |
| 1997 |
Unprecedented
research into providing unrestricted performance from
mini-satellites results in the launch of Energy's
soon-to-be-famous Take 5 Home Theater system. |
| 2000 |
Gord
van Kessel designs the unique Athena SCT series followed
by the new Audition and Point 5 series systems. SCT
is the world's first docking Satellite/Subwoofer system
featuring API's patented subtractive filter system
for perfect blending in a Home Theater system. |
| 2002 |
OMNIGUIDE
technology is developed by Mirage's Chief Designer,
Andrew Welker and is launched with great acclaim in
the OMNISAT lifestyle, satellite speaker system. The
OMNISAT highly innovative arrangement of tweeter,
woofer and reflective discs produces full OMNIPOLAR
sound with its renowned and natural 360° soundfield.
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