by Danske Bank published on 7 December 2020 I B&Os tidligere udviklingslokaler er et stærkt vækst- og innovationsmiljø ved at tegne sig. Staten, Struer Kommune, Aalborg Universitet, Danish Sound Cluster, Færch-fonden, Danske Bank, Bang & Olufsen, Harman og en række andre store corporates er gået sammen om at skabe et centrum for lyd i verdensklasse i Struer, Sound Hub Denmark. Sound Hub Denmark skal fastholde og udvikle Danmarks stærke internationale position på lyd-området o

The new NEO series of sound centres is taking giant steps in development and perfecting that special brand of STEENSSEN sound that is proving to be so appealing. Innovation and new thinking demand that you have to explore new avenues of design and unique ways of using combining tech with nature and the physics of sound. Even the simplicity of the STEENSSENs cabinets are undergoing "ingenuity tests". Nothing is taken for granted. The idea that "we did it last time and it worke

As an architect, I always wanted glass to be glass. Windows should be more like transparent walls, rather than holes in a wall and that windows should not be subdivided into small panes. This is especially true with double and triple glazing where small panes are really just a pain when window-cleaning. However I also have to recognise, that sash-bars on windows really do add a kind of screening quality to windows. This applies both to the outside and also to the inside. Inte

Online security and lack of data privacy are fast raising serious issues. As more of our digital devices become interlinked through smart phones and online services, the threats to our privacy are mushrooming. When designing AIR we looked at this issue in detail. Our solution was to simplify rather than to pump up the complexity. Amazon's Alexa voice assistant and Apple's Siri are already the subject of negative controversy about the way they form gateways through which every

This is a fairly tech kind of blog. However the point in technology is that it has to have a purpose, a reason. This is specially true of hifi sound. So the real starting point of this blog is cultural. It is a guitar riff, the middle tones of a Mozart piano, the voice of Adele, the script of an e-book spoken by the human voice. One of the striking audio systems from STEENSSEN is called AIR. It concentrates on delivering the treble and mid-tones of all the above. It does so t

Author: Quintijn Bulterman Published on November 14, 2019 Denmark is a country that we know well at HiFi.nl as a kind of audio Walhalla, with great brands such as DALI, Densen, Bang & Olufsen and Davone. One brand is better known than the other. We can now also add Steenssen to this list. We received the TT Grand loudspeaker from this young Danish manufacturer. What should we think of an audio device that does not actually fit in the box of soundbar? And that in proportion to

Two completely different types of music from totally different centuries have something fascinating in common. Both sound totally amazing on the sonic "landscape" you get from the ACTION audio system. Actually what these two share are a mix of tones that reach all the way from accurate high tones, through middle frequencies and down into a rich bass. Think about the piano, cello and violin music of Mozart's compositions in Vienna and Salzburg and you experience a full range o

The brilliant British scientist, the late Stephen Hawking, is not immediately the person you would associate with a hifi system. Yet when we were designing the AIR audio system we wanted a dark finish that was neutral and non-reflective for the main part. For the front baffle we wanted a finish that was light and reflective. Stephen Hawking's early work was with "Black Holes" in space. A black hole is like a collapsed star which has such strong gravitational field that nothin

Seeing the AIR audio system for the first time, most people assume that the shape could only be made in plastic. But that isn't the case. Plastic and good sound just don't go well together. On the other hand, wood is one of the most perfect materials for good acoustics. What we decided to do with AIR was to design a brilliant system in wood - and keep it as sustainable as possible. To do that we had to engage some of the most innovative production techniques and some pretty c