Deep One – Wearable Subwoofer

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The Deep One portable subwoofer delivers powerful bass wherever you go. Compact and powerful, it provides rich sounds that make every playlist an experience – no matter where you are.

EP3695619A1 relates to a music neckband configured as a device to be worn around the neck. It enables music to be experienced by feeling vibrations, thereby contributing to an enhanced new listening experience. This makes use of a development that aims to convert the electrical signals of audible sounds into vibrations and transmit them to the human body in a particularly effective way.

The special trick is (see Fig. 6a of EP3695619A1) that the music neckband 10 has left and right vibration sections 101 and 102 respectively, which are connected to the left/right of the main frame 100, and have front left/right vibration pads 20 to indirectly touch the soft tissue of the left/right part of the chest through the clothing.

[Fig. 6a of EP3695619A1]

In contrast, only a vibrating speaker to be worn on the shoulders is known from the prior art, in particular D1 (WO2005053351A1), which teaches a U-shaped speaker structure to which a small vibrating speaker and a small woofer are attached (see Fig. 1 of D1). The specific alignment of vibration pads 20 is not taught therein.

[Fig. 1 of D2]

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