8bar Sound

People will spend inordinate (or, at least, barely ordinate) amounts of money on sound systems for their car or home. Amplifiers hand-crafted with valves filled with Swedish vacuum; speakers hewn from West Samoan baobab wood; gold-plated connectors hand-polished by Balinese metallurgists... the list is unendless.

But, however good the system, you are still left with a vast gap between the speakers and your ears - even with headphones, the gap is appreciable. This gap is filled with mundane, ordinary air which has in no way been engineered with sound transmission in mind. The humidity, temperature and pressure of the air are matters of mere chance - hardly adequate for the true enthusiast.

MaxCo. seeks to fill a much-needed gap in the market, by offering avid sound enthusiasts a bespoke air-tailoring service. Our sound engineers (and a couple of unsound ones to make the tea) will carefully analyse the properties of your listening environment, taking into account things like the shape of the room, the placement of sound-reflecting or sound-absorbing material, and so forth.

We will then hermetically seal the room, installing an attractive and inconspicuous air-lock/decompression chamber in place of the existing door, and fit the necessary gas-handling hardware.

Once installed, the system will regulate both the pressure and gas composition within the room (keeping it always within breathable limits) to ensure the optimal listening experience.

For a typical room with fitted carpets and the usual quantity of soft furnishings, the ideal listening experience is to be had at an ambient pressure of about 120psi, in a gas mixture of 6% oxygen, 94% SF6. For larger rooms, slightly lower pressure and a gas mix involving helium is often preferable.

For the music lover on the go, we can also provide deluxe headphones, discreetly connected to a cylinder of the appropriate gas, with tiny jets to keep the airspace between the headphones and your ears optimally filled.