DPS-Enabled Headphones for Drivers

Bongiovi Acoustics today launched the first headphones to incorporate the Digital Power Station (DPS), a software based digital audio processor that optimizes program material for playback on a particular device. The headphones, which will be available mid-2010, are built to meet original equipment (OEM) automotive standards and will be distributed through AVG Group.

The DPS technology will allow the listener to hear music and audio that is as close to studio quality as possible in a vehicle. In fact, this technology is currently available in iHome products and JVC Mobile entertainment systems.

"The DPS headphones represent the second in a series of planned DPS automotive implementations," says Ayaz Somani, Future's CEO, "and provide OEMs and their customers an immediate and inexpensive way of ushering the luxury of studio quality sound into their vehicles."

DPS is a 100 percent active digital processing method that analyzes the incoming audio signal and remixes it in real time for optimized playback on the headphones. The DPS adds missing harmonics, improves brightness, clarity and presence and provides deeper, more resonant bass. It extends bandwidth of compressed audio formats (MP3 and AAC) and also compensates for differences in volume between songs.

"Our partnership with Future Acoustics and AVG Group has enabled us to bring our DPS technology to the major OEM players in the automotive sector," says Ron Simmons, Managing Director of Bongiovi Acoustics. "These new headphones extend our technology beyond head-unit based audio and video systems in a vehicle."