British company Flare Audio started as a professional rental business in 2007. Not content with the clarity and tourability of existing products, Flare Audio founder and Managing Director Davies Roberts created loudspeaker designs based on the theory of Waveform Integrity, which states that the loudspeaker should be sonically invisible, neither adding nor detracting from the clarity of sound produced by the driver. The company claimed patents for its Nanoflow driver alignment approach; Space enclosure structure, and Vortex porting technology, all applied to Flare’s sound reinforcement solutions.
Flare has since gone from strength to strength, with a variety of products built on this principles, creating a sound that is clearer and less distorted, whatever the environment. Flare products have provided the live sound at a wide array of high profile events and the company has also won contracts to install systems in many venues, including Dolby Atmos theaters, in the United Kingdom.
“Starting from the well-known concept that the same frequencies reproduced in phase and out of phase from one speaker can cancel each other and create serious issues in the response of a sound system, we have been working on the “Infinite Baffle” concept, long thought to be impossible. So, after five years of intensive research on this technology, we were able to “tame” the sound pressure and today we can say that the sound waves from the front of our speakers are no longer compromised by those emitted from the rear. This allows us to avoid the typical problems of phase noise in reproduction and to produce new and different acoustic systems,” explains Davies Roberts, owner and founder of Flare Audio Limited.
“We have developed a technology that allows us to produce sound without distortion, thanks to three patents. In practice, we transform speakers in acoustic pistons eliminating the pressure that may interfere on both sides of the driver. Our technology is applicable to any loudspeaker in order to produce a sound without distortion. However, we always select the drivers that best fit our needs and that is why our initial choice fell on two models of Italian FaitalPRO HF drivers, one and four inches respectively, 4FE32 and HF10AK (16 ohms).”
“Our speakers are truly "cross-over" and perfect in so many areas, also suitable for use in line arrays, PA and for bands employing large and prestigious systems. Our design also comes from excellent links with British universities, as our ideas are loved for their innovation. We are a strongly technologically oriented company that creates professional speakers and also high-level headphones, which have been available on the market since 2010.”
“After major investments, which were repeated last year, we have many grown product areas with patents covering various sides of the market and not just pro-audio. Our range includes about twenty-five speakers that use FaitalPRO drivers, apart from two lower cost units.”
“It took a five years research and three registered patents, not only acoustically, but also starting from the practical physics and the idea of the air control which, allows you to manage the sound pressure avoiding harmful rear emissions. The air comes out in a controlled way and does not affect the work of the speaker, thanks to special large ports. In theory, all speakers of all sizes can benefit from these concepts and all models have the same sound and are very linear.”
“For now we have only used small drivers by FaitalPRO but the next step is to consider larger products, such as the renowned 18" woofers. Ours is a very different approach that can be applied to a smartphone as well as a huge touring line array.”
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