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The Sodapop Speaker Attaches to Standard Beverage Bottles to Give that Bass a Boost

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Sodapop

TheSodapopspeaker has been designed to solve the main problem for small portable loudspeakers: They struggle to reproduce low frequency bass, resulting in a somewhat feeble sound.The Sodapop invention solves this problem by connecting the speaker to its own carrying case or any other suitable plastic bottle.This offers a compact portable wireless speaker that provide you with louder music, twice as much bass and an overall superior sound.

Design Team

Oskar Johansen, industrial designer

Andreas Murray, industrial designer

Tore Vinje Brustad, industrial designer

Thor Henrik Bruun, industrial designer

Eivind Halseth, industrial designer

Øyvind Warp, product developer

Øyvind Warp

The Sodapop is designed and developed in Oslo, Norway by a team consisting of award-winning industrial designers, acousticians, tech enthusiasts, speaker nerds and music loving entrepreneurs.Sodapop combines Scandinavian design, quality and innovation to form a new type of compact portable speakers.

The custom made bass bottle doubles as a protective carrying case for the speaker unit. Even so, the threaded interface that fastens the bottle is compatible with most regular plastic beverage bottles, just about anywhere in the world. This makes the Sodapop speaker an ideal traveling companion.

By utilizing the characteristics of the bottle material and the air inside the bottle, the Sodapop speaker can increase the sound volume in the bass range by as much as 10dB.To the human ear a 10dB increase will sound approximately twice as loud, so in other words, the Sodapop speaker can generate twice as much bass, just by connecting an ordinary soda bottle.

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Sodapop Audio

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The Sodapop speaker is now available for pre-order on Indiegogo InDemand.

Check it out:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sodapop-portable-speaker-bass-reinvented#/

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Sodapop Audio

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@Thomas Ho: It actually works! The physics is roughly as follows: very general, sound waves are produced when a flexible membrane (diaphragm) attached to an electromagnet is vibrating in the speaker element. This membrane pushes the air inside of the speaker cabinet to produce high and low frequencies. The bottle more than triples the physical volume of the Sodapop speaker cabinet, enabling the speaker to push more air and produce over 10db louder sound in the 60-250hz audio spectrum range (where is where you’ll typically find the «bottom» of the bass and kick drums etc), than without the bottle.

In addition, the elastic walls of the bottle also boost both the high and low frequencies, as it becomes a “part” of the membrane and helps to push the air inside the closed cabinet. This results in the feeling of warmth in the bass without loss of definition. The problem with other small speakers with bass boost (they all use a passive bass membrane inside a very small cabinet), is that they only boost the bass and this makes the music sound boomy and less defined.
So, there you have it, real bass requires real space.

And like one that understands the physics of this invention puts it, Andrew Liszewski, editor at Gizmodo: "Could the Sodapop potentially work as promised? Of course it can...using this clever trick, the Sodapop should sound a lot better than most other portable speakers its size."

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@Keith E: Thank you for your interest in the Sodapop Speaker. The test is probably not good enough explained on the website. The test is done by playing the speakers one by one at their highest volume with the same music tune (typical pop electronica with lots of bass) for 1 minutt at the same distant from the microphone. The data in the chart is not the peaks but the overall median power at the specific frequency area over 1 minutt. This proves the overall "warmer" feeling in the sound image. The bottle lifts the constant power throughout the whole audio spectrum, not just in the bass area. We will update our website with more info and charts as soon as possible. Stay tuned.

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Thomas Ho

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a bit gimmicky

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Keith E

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I originally fell in love with this concept, but if you look at the frequency/spl chart on their website comparing their design to competing brands, you can see that playing it at the same volume as the others would result in it producing less bass than the others. It appears that all it does is play slightly louder than the ones they are comparing it to. This is not the bass boost they claim in their advertising.

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