The first product in the new Peerless HVS series is the HVS40, a full-range 40mm driver with a modular motor system that is available in both round and racetrack formats, and can be adjusted to multiple applications. More importantly, the HVS40 is the first product that reflects the company's desire to design with sustainability in mind, and also achieve overall higher quality and processing capability.
The Peerless team saw a challenge many of its customers were facing – a need for a competitively priced transducer that puts sustainability at the forefront of its design. Through advances in both sustainable design practice, sustainable materials, and advanced manufacturing processes with a focus on product production efficiencies and repeatability, Peerless has managed to deliver the right price-to-performance ratio in a shallow form factor, making it a suitable solution for many system designs.
The HVS40 leverages molecular bonding technology, allowing for the elimination of adhesive bonds between cone and surround, with an overall 79% reduction in adhesive volume in the product assembly compared with comparable Peerless products. And a proprietary high performance thin-ply glass fiber cone material with excellent stiffness-to-weight ratio replaces traditional paper material to eliminate wastewater pollution. This results in improvements in high frequency extension, along with batch-to-batch cosmetic and acoustic performance consistency.
Secondly, according to Tymphany, the new Peerless HVS40 uses a highly optimized motor structure minimizing rare earth (RE) magnet material, leading to an average 35% reduction in RE material use by volume with comparable performance. This optimization results in a 125% increase in acoustic performance per unit volume of RE material compared with comparable products. Optimized RE magnets also have a 17% to 25% lower magnet cost compared to competitive drivers with comparable performance.
Even with all these new design approaches, the HVS40 driver still delivers improved costs, lead time, and quality control in multiple areas. "Sustainability doesn’t need to mean expensive," says, Matt Marchese – Peerless Business Unit Leader.
As the company highlights, the modular design reduces component count across the product series, with an improved automated assembly process, and vertical integration of the cone, surround, and frame production. Benefiting from Tymphany's extensive manufacturing operations and expert engineering, this also allows for reduced operations and costs, with a marked increase in productivity.
The Peerless HVS40 leads the upcoming HVS series of transducers, all focused on sustainability improvements and leveraging new materials and innovations, enabled by modern manufacturing strategies. This includes recent groundbreaking advances in automation that are able to accommodate everything from ultra-high demand to the lower volume needs of specialized products.
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