No grille required —

Is 10 percent the thickness of a accepted car speaker, LG says.

Scharon Harding - Nov 21, 2022 5:22 p.m. UTC

LG Display volition commercialize thin, vibrating speakers for cars successful the archetypal fractional of 2023, the institution announced today. The Thin Actuator Sound Solution has akin dimensions to a passport and forgoes galore of the bulkier parts of emblematic car speakers.

LG Display is known for processing display sheet technologies and providing them to assorted companies, including the user LG brand. Its caller talker doesn't usage a cone, magnet, oregon dependable coil and doesn't necessitate a talker grille. Instead, the talker relies connected what the institution described arsenic a "film-type exciter technology," which vibrates disconnected show panels "and assorted materials wrong the car body" to make "3D" dependable that LG Display claims is arsenic bully arsenic what accepted car speakers produce.

LG adjacent worked with a "global audio company" to make the speakers, but we can't archer you if that's awesome oregon not due to the fact that LG Display didn't specify the partner's name.

The exciters are compact, granting the Thin Actuator Sound Solution versatility erstwhile it comes to placement and freeing up much abstraction wrong cars. LG Display sees the offering being utilized successful conveyance dashboards, headrests, headliners, and pillars, for example. The talker measures 5.9×3.5×0.1 inches (150×90×2.5 mm) and weighs 1.4 ounces (40 g). In its announcement, LG Display said that's 10 percent arsenic heavy arsenic a emblematic car talker and 30 percent the weight.

Enlarge / LG Display's car talker is astir arsenic large arsenic a passport.

LG Display said it would amusement disconnected its speakers astatine the CES commercialized amusement successful Las Vegas successful January.

Vibrating panel-based speakers are acold from mainstream, but we've seen them utilized before, chiefly successful TVs. Sony debuted Acoustic Surface OLED TVs successful 2017, and the institution has garnered positive reviews with caller iterations, similar the A9G, particularly erstwhile it comes to dialogue. In August, LG Display showed disconnected a 97-inch OLED EX TV panel that claims to usage a vibrating show sheet to present 5.1 transmission sound.

While LG Display's automobile speakers should connection much choices to carmakers erstwhile it comes to talker placement, dependable prime is the large question for each imaginable partners and drivers.