New sound technology (market research)

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Isac Degerborg

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Hi, I'm here for a market research about a new way of producing sound. The product works with a new kind of technology for headphones that basically turns YOU into the sound. This means that no-one around you can hear it. We've worked around so that no kind of disturbance will occur when the sound travels from your iPod, computer or any other kind of sound device, into your ears. If everything goes as it's supposed this device will produce the best possible sound you can get.
The cable will be able to take a lot of damage and won't damage for laying in your pocket.

Now to the big questions.
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How old are you?:
Would you buy the product?:
Are you open for this new kind of technology?
Or do you prefer the old kind?:
What are you willing to pay between 200-450 dollars?:
 
Re: New sound technology (market research)

Isac Degerborg said:
Hi, I'm here for a market research about a new way of producing sound. The product works with a new kind of technology for headphones that basically turns YOU into the sound. This means that no-one around you can hear it. We've worked around so that no kind of disturbance will occur when the sound travels from your iPod, computer or any other kind of sound device, into your ears. If everything goes as it's supposed this device will produce the best possible sound you can get.
The cable will be able to take a lot of damage and won't damage for laying in your pocket.

Now to the big questions.
(copy and paste the text below)

How old are you?:
Would you buy the product?:
Are you open for this new kind of technology?
Or do you prefer the old kind?:
What are you willing to pay between 200-450 dollars?:
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Any details on this "new technology"? Perhaps some patent filings?

Or is it simply repackaged current technology (moving magnet, moving coil, electrostatic drivers)? Perhaps in-ear monitors?
 
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Isac,

Good luck, but I doubt you'll get many useful or interesting answers. We're hardly your target market, and you have provided zero incentive to help someone who has contributed nothing to this discussion board. A little rude, IMHO.
 
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Isac,

It sounds like you're talking about some product that uses bone conduction instead of a miniature loudspeaker driver or armature assembly. If you are, it's a cool concept, but I think that this market segment is not the place to conduct your research. Unless they would provide adequate isolation from external noise sources, they would be useless in our industry as a professional offering.

More info is needed, IMO.
 
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If someone can design a Com device that works like this, I'll buy it. I've been hot on something like this for a while now. I
dont want my ears plugged up when I'm mixing/teching a production. But some people just think Im crazy.
 
Re: New sound technology (market research)

Isac Degerborg said:
Hi, I'm here for a market research about a new way of producing sound. The product works with a new kind of technology for headphones that basically turns YOU into the sound. This means that no-one around you can hear it. We've worked around so that no kind of disturbance will occur when the sound travels from your iPod, computer or any other kind of sound device, into your ears. If everything goes as it's supposed this device will produce the best possible sound you can get.
The cable will be able to take a lot of damage and won't damage for laying in your pocket.

Now to the big questions.
(copy and paste the text below)

How old are you?:
Would you buy the product?:
Are you open for this new kind of technology?
Or do you prefer the old kind?:
What are you willing to pay between 200-450 dollars?:
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The answer to questions 2,3,&4 depend on the answer to question 5
not knowing what the product is, my answer would have to be a big matrix detailing my answers at every price point..
maybe you need to think this through a bit more

Jason
 
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Steve Hurt said:
Cochlear implant?
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I wouldn't want to replace my current ones. Maybe if it were in addition to, with on/off control. But then I might need a bigger brain to handle all that new info. Then I'd want an "additional brain" rather than a replacement. hmm, this could get complicated.

To the OP, is this an outpatient procedure? What's the downtime?
 
Re: New sound technology (market research)

Isac Degerborg said:
This means that no-one around you can hear it. We've worked around so that no kind of disturbance will occur when the sound travels from your iPod, computer or any other kind of sound device, into your ears.
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I'm very open to a new kind of listening technology, but it has to be better than the current form. You say that I will be the source of the sound, but what about sounds outside of me? I like my current custom molds because in addition to providing great sound, it also excludes sounds around me(my commute on the subway). If the technology can silence the world around me in addition to letting me listen to something, I would pay some good money for it. However, if I have to wear earplugs or earmuff in addition to the new technology to replace my current listening scenario, then I wouldn't give it a second thought.
 
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Justice C. Bigler said:
Now, this I would pay good money for.
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Hi Justice, yeah would be great huh. Shouldnt be that hard to figure out, but I, like you just don't have any free time to try to bench something like this. And as usual it gets sluffed off as to complicated or crazy. Look this thread just got dumped to the basement! LOL I mean it comes down to the tools we really need to do our jobs better. It's just not as exciting as what mic do I use for a Wax Paper Comb. lol
 
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About 10 years ago my day job tried out headphones that did just that. They sat behind your ear and did bone condution. Emergency services crews were using them so they could hear the situation around them, and also hear their two way radios. IIRC, the plug on the headphones was 3.5mm TRS. I'm sure you must be able to get them and use them for comms.
 
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andrew gissing said:
About 10 years ago my day job tried out headphones that did just that. They sat behind your ear and did bone condution. Emergency services crews were using them so they could hear the situation around them, and also hear their two way radios. IIRC, the plug on the headphones was 3.5mm TRS. I'm sure you must be able to get them and use them for comms.
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Hey Andrew, thanks man, thats a direction I will go in. I did'nt think of EMS. Kinda gonna be one of my pet projects.
 
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Hey Andrew, thanks for the tip. Searched EMS, Im gonna try this baby out. you might have made some of our lives a little easier! We'll see. The conductor is in front of the exposed ear. :razz:
 

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