Jamo SUB 200 Catalog - Page 36

THE PEOPLE BEHIND RASMUS From lab to living room "Designing loudspeakers is a passion driven by my love of music and movies. It involves a great deal of technical knowledge, measuring procedures and basic laboratory work, but in the end it's all about listening and catching the essence of music. Loudspeakers are in your home to serve you, whether you want to party all night long with loud heavy rock or sit down with a glass of wine in a comfy chair to listen to your favourite classical recordings. The loudspeakers must always deliver true feelings and envelopment. Whether watching a brutal action sci-fi classic or a quiet French neo-noir movie, the accompanying sound plays an essential role and must be delivered with great care and respect. It is a great challenge for me to bring out the best in every loudspeaker system; no matter price. They are all made with the same goal in mind - to bring the magical experience into your home. By the way... I always check out the loudspeakers in my own living room before anything is signed off. I mean anyway who has a standardised laboratory at home these days?" Mikael Ankersen Acoustic Engineer 70 Shaping the impossible... "I have a poster on the wall in the modelling workshop with the famous Walt Disney quote 'If you can dream it, you can do it', which has become a kind of mantra for me in my daily work as a cabinet maker. Sometimes the sound engineers in the development department bring me a complete computer generated 3D design and sometimes they just hand me a rough sketch and some doodles drawn on the back of an envelope. Regardless of the input, it is my job to make a prototype which can bring ideas to life. In this process, it becomes obvious which ideas are good and which are bad. Therefore I see myself as the link between creative ideas and computer design on one side and the real 3-dimensional world on the other. There has to be a certain element of playfulness in my work. And the more impossible an assignment might seem, the more challenging and satisfying it is to find a perfect solution. The objective of my work is to help Jamo create nicely shaped speakers with a contemporary industrial design, perfect high finish and ideal acoustic qualities." Søren Hansen Model Carpenter 71