Audeze’s personal Symmetric Linear Acoustic Modulator (SLAM, for brief) tech has been a game-changer for the premium head-fi model.
It is seen an outstanding enhance for all its most up-to-date traces of headphones and gaming headsets which have seen an enhancement to bass, a discount in distortion, and a mastering of the strain equalization inside a headphone’s structure.
As Audeze describes it on its web site, at its core, SLAM is a group of “exactly engineered channels seamlessly built-in into the ring that connects the ear pads to the drivers.”
This bodily manifests in headphones as a “construction that you just put between the ear half and the transducer that resonates,” in line with Audeze’s chief technical officer, Dragoslav Colich (‘Dr C’ for brief).
These channels relieve air strain buildup — the air has someplace to go — and in addition assist with low-frequency response, to the purpose the place it enhances bass considerably. It is proved so good and transformational for the model; it is one of many largest upgrades on provide within the Audeze Maxwell 2 over the unique Maxwell, for instance.
I began this for one main cause; to alleviate the strain on headphones so we’re not breaking diaphragms — that was the primary goal”
However how did it come to be? Properly, mainly accidentally, as I discovered when talking to Dr C final month after I visited Audeze’s HQ in California.
“Properly, I began this for one main cause [and that] was to alleviate the strain on headphones, so we’re not breaking diaphragms — that was the primary goal,” he started to inform me.
That is the attribute of the SLAM channels funneling air out of the headphone and thus relieving strain inside; think about the sensation of pushing your palm down on a headphone’s ear cup, was the comparability Dr C gave me throughout our chat.
“Then after we had been enjoying with this stuff, we sort of discovered that we will tune these channels to resonate at low frequencies, and it was a very bizarre discovery.”
It was this unintended discovering that then led to an extra ‘SLAM-dunk’ after Audeze found what these channels may do when sculpted purposefully: “We did not plan for it, however I simply [discovered by] shock that after we form the channels appropriately [in terms of] cross part and size, we will tune the headphone chamber … to no matter we wish.”
Because of this, an excellent larger ‘SLAM-dunk’ was the one-two punch the invention provided: fixing reliability whereas tangibly altering and enhancing the sound output of Audeze headphones.
“What that does [is] mainly clear up the issue with reliability; diaphragms should not breaking anymore, as a result of while you push it, mainly air goes via these channels, there isn’t any excessive strain inside, however then we ended up having [a way] that we will tune the bass to get extra output, just about without spending a dime — and it is not simply bass, it interprets into mid-range and excessive frequencies, [as] it is all linked to one another,” he stated, including, “So, kill a few issues on the identical time: get extra reliability, and we’re tuning the headphones appropriately for low bass extension.”
And so SLAM was born. What began out as a way to cease diaphragms breaking “truly turned out into one thing spectacular,” says Dr C, and from my ongoing use with the Audeze Maxwell 2 gaming headset as my everyday driver, and a new set of Audeze MM-520 headphones kept within arm’s reach too, I’m inclined to agree.
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