It is not surprising to see multimedia manufacturers introduce newer technologies in the market to gain edge over the competition. After all, there are only a limited amount of aspects that you can alter and improve in order to make 2.1 and up speakers produce higher quality of sound. Few years ago, 2.1 speakers took over the market with a swish, but like everything in technology products tend to get outdated and common enough for users to demand something innovative and unique. We then started to see 5.1-surround sound speakers slowly emerge in the market. As time progressed, every speakers manufacturer was trying to do something different to gain higher market shares. Companies started producing speakers with THX technology, which meant clearer and crisper sound like the one you hear in limited theatres. And now we are seeing 7.1 speakers enter the multimedia realm, but 2.1 and 5.1 speakers are still here to stay. Manufacturers such as Logitech and Altec Lansing are integrating their efforts into improving the quality of their products with sound enhancing technologies.

A while back we took an in-depth look at Altec Lansing’s InConcert Technology. You can read our analysis by following the above link, but to quickly touch on it, here’s a brief summary of our analysis. The point of the technology was to direct the sound straight towards the user instead of distributing it to other unnecessary areas of the room, namely the ceiling. This allowed for direct shotgun effect without the loss of high-frequency notes that were otherwise diminished after hitting the walls and the ceiling. The InConcert Technology worked fine and we actually heard the improvement during our performance tests. Now Logitech, after a short while, has announced their FDD (Frequency Directed Dual Drivers) technology that is somewhat similar to Altec Lansing’s InConcert Technology in terms of its functionality.

We have already reported the performance of this technology in Part I of this series of articles on the X-530 speaker units, which we strongly recommend you read in order to get a correct perception of Logitech’s innovative idea. Unfortunately, we couldn’t publish our report on the FDD technology due to time constraints, which is why we split our analysis of the X-530 speakers into a series of two coherent articles. Join us as we delve into the technical aspects of Logitech’s Frequency Directed Dual Drivers Technology in Part II of our X-530 product analysis…

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