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03
“MUSIC ENVELOPS OUR ENTIRE
RANGE OF HUMAN PERCEPTION
– WHAT FOR US AT SENNHEISER
HAS ALWAYS BEEN A MATTER
OF THE HEART.”
Prof. Dr. Jörg Sennheiser
Amaster luthier takes the resonanc-
es of a Stradivarius and makes
them visible for the first time. An
archaeologist enters an underground laby-
rinth to divine the moans of an oracle. And
a world-renowned vocal coach finds him-
self in the vibrations of the singer’s for-
mant, those unique frequencies that carry
the Heldentenor’s voice back to the very
last rows of an opera house.
These captivating personalities and the
many others found on the pages of this is-
sue transport us to the “Heart of the sound” – those fre-
quencies between 20 and 20,000 Hz audible to the human
ear. Such as the mystical sounds of Peruvian conch-shell
horns blown at frequencies between 272 and 340 Hz, a mas-
ter violin’s main resonances from 440 to 450 Hz, and the
2,800 Hz brilliance of the human voice.
In the first part of our trilogy, we explored the imperceptible
infrasound frequencies from zero to 20 Hz as we marveled
at what lies “In the depths of sound.” Next year, we will
complete our series by entering the domain of bats and
moths “In the heights of sound,” the powerful, yet inaudi-
ble, range of ultrasound (20,000 to 200,000 Hz).
But what sounds await us on the following pages of “In the
heart of the sound”? The howl of a race car engine, the mur-
mur of an oracle and – above all – a lot of music. Music en-
velops our entire range of human percep-
tion – what for us at Sennheiser has
always been a matter of the heart.
That’s why we want to use this magazine
to show you how we were able to trans-
form David Bowie’s greatest hits into a
three-dimensional audio panorama; how
we provided a casting show with a unique
uncompressed digital wireless system with
audio transmission far exceeding that of
analog wireless technology; or how receiv-
ers and sports headphones are helping
soccer players hit better crosses by beaming the right kind
of music into their ears!
Of course, we at Sennheiser are perfectly aware that passion
is not technical. It can’t be assigned a frequency, but rather
fluctuates in many different directions. Technology, howev-
er, can also be art. And with the help of technology, art can
be transported from person to person and even across con-
tinents and into space. To make this issue as perfect as pos-
sible, we followed the credo “The Pursuit of perfect Sound”
– no matter what the frequency range.