On the occasion of the WWDC 25 conference, Apple opened two of its secret buildings located in Cupertino. We had already been able to visit the Cork Test Laboratory (Ireland) where IMACS and iPhones experience some torture sessions to optimize their resistance. Apple Park also has multiple evidence against shocks, erosion or temperature changes during transport with the dubility laboratory.
Tech & Co could slide behind the scene of Apple Sound in the audio laboratory. It is here that all music -related devices are thought, prototypes, proven and their thoughts. To announce the color, two giant speakers belonging to Steve Jobs in their youth broadcast reception music. The message is clear: in this anonymous building, we think and live music to perpetuate the love of the co -founder and its requirement of quality melodies and advanced equipment.
A concern for the smallest detail
In the theaters and meetings curve, we understand the concern about the details in the search for the perfect audio product. How Apple also designed its ecosystem using clinical tests and immersive experience. In the audio laboratory, any product with a microphone or a speaker passes in the hands of engineers and audio experts: there is an engineer rewarded with the Grammy Awards. From design to validation, from perfect adjustments, nothing is left to chance.
Because beyond the design of headphones material, helmets or other, technology on board is a priority. In Fantasia Lab, a sphere equipped with 50 speakers is in the middle of an acoustic room to reproduce current sound scenes (restaurant, transportation, shopping centers, streets, etc.). One way to prove listening, noise reduction, but also the ability to perceive voices around them, especially thanks to the impulse conversation function, widely used by people with hearing loss to better listen to their interlocutor thanks to the “oriented listening.”
Fantasia Lab allows you to adjust the configuration, calibrate space audio, transparency mode or noise reduction. In the sound bubble, the tester located in the heart will be surrounded by several more or less strong noises, to judge the ability to distinguish speech. Engineers can optimize algorithms for different life situations.
But music is not just the ability of Airpods to be usable in all situations to enjoy their favorite tubes. It is still better with the best possible sound listening. Lab Audio, therefore, has several mixing studies that are in real recording studios. They are equipped with advanced equipment (speakers, disk plate, mixer, high -end microphone, etc.) to reproduce the quality of the desired study by Apple and board of the headphones, the maximum airpods or even the iPhone. Then advanced audio treatment is defined, with an equalizer. It will be implemented in all brand audio devices.
Once the technology and audio quality have been defined, it is time to take acoustic measures. Apple built a room inside the building in a room. An absolute precision aneco room to refine its technologies, such as space audio. This special room has its own bases and are isolated from the general structure to isolate themselves from the possible vibrations that would distort the measures. Inside, empty or rather a room with completely covered walls of insulating materials that cut the echo.
We walk on a wire surface to avoid disturbing the structure. A mannequin trunk with microphones and sensors will perceive the sounds sent by an impressive arc. DESCLA Sounds in all directions and possible angles, but with precise axes. Apple will use recovered measures to map the possible individual perception of sound to adapt it to all types of morphology. This will allow users to define their custom sound profile using the iPhone to obtain a custom -made sound experience.
Listen to health
The importance of sound in apple not only refers to musical experience, but also to listen to health. In the runners, the cabins are dedicated to the testing of functions. This is how the facilitated and intuitive hearing test function on the iPhone, but also the possibility of transforming the Airpods Pro 2 into headphones.
To do this, the laboratory has several audiometric clinical tests, quite identical to those that can be found in the NewEwspapers. Audiologists come to perform thousands of tests there in headphone users, helmets or speakers, as necessary.
They contributed significantly to the hearing test function integrated in the iPhone using the headphones to manage a feasible test in five minutes to find out if it suffers or not hearing loss. From there, it will result in an audiogram and custom listening recommendations (data stored in the health application and comparable with a health professional). To achieve the simplicity of the test interface, years of research and validated clinical tests were needed to guarantee the reliability of the result.
Design your solid identity for a better musical listening, optimize your products so that it listens is optimal in any environment and any of the auditory abilities of each one: for years, Apple has implemented an innovation process that contributes to the success of its different audio products.
Mixture of technology, musical experience, science, but also human, the Californian company wants to see beyond the simple musical experience to make its headphones in particular the allies of everyday life and well -being. Health and music, two dear subjects in Apple’s heart that gives them the same desire to democratize professional assets
Source: BFM TV
