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LG Display will market thin, vibrant car speakers in early 2023, the company announced today. The Thin Actuator sound system is the size of a passport and gives up many of the larger parts of typical car speakers.
LG Display is known for developing billboard technologies and providing them to businesses, adding the LG customer logo. Your new speaker doesn’t use a cone, magnet or acoustic coil and doesn’t require a speaker grille. described as “movie-like excitation technology,” which vibrates on demo panels “and internal fabrics in the car body” to create a “3D” sound that LG Display says is as clever as the classic sound produced by car speakers.
LG even worked with a “global audio company” to expand the speakers, but we can’t tell you if that’s impressive or not because LG Display didn’t specify the partner’s call.
The exciters are compact, providing the versatility of the Thin Actuator sound solution in terms of location and freeing up more space inside cars. LG Display sees the provision being used in dashboards, headrests, ceiling moldings and pillars, for example. The speaker measures 5. 9 × 3. 5 × 0. 1 inches (150 × 90 × 2. 5 mm) and weighs 1. 4 ounces (40 g). In its announcement, LG Display said it’s 10% thicker than a typical car speaker and 30% lighter.
LG Display has announced that it will showcase its speakers at the CES show in Las Vegas in January.
Vibrating panel speakers are far from conventional, but I noticed they were used before, most commonly in TVs. Sony announced acoustic surface OLED TVs in 2017, and the company garnered positive reviews with recent iterations, such as the A9G, especially when it comes to dialogue. In August, LG Display brought a 97-inch OLED EX TV panel that claims to use a vibrating demo panel to provide 5. 1-channel sound.
While LG Display’s car speakers are expected to offer more options to automakers when it comes to speaker location, sound quality is top of mind for all potential partners and drivers.
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