Home Audio with Studio Grade Sound
Audio System
Heyra
Product summary
The Heyra Audio System is an amplifying hub allowing connection of all your devices. Including inputs for a record player, TV or other devices. Heyra lets you connect to your favourite speaker, passive, non-passive, old or new. The audio system is made from premium metal components giving a quality look and feel to the device. Heyra will fit into most interiors providing a high end sound solution to both your home and your ears.
Categories
Audio Equipment Design, Consumer Electronics Design
Premium Audio Equipment Design
Combining their passion for high-fidelity sound design and electronics experience, Heyra envisioned a system that would improve audio quality in the home. Integrated amplifiers in the speakers reduced cabling and optimised the power specifically for the driver. This created an audio system that was efficient in cost whilst providing exceptional audio quality. To create a complete Hi-Fi system design, Heyra paired the speakers with a premium quality control unit.
Heyra’s ethos was that high-fidelity sound should also be accompanied by high-quality hardware. To achieve this, the control unit was created using cast aluminium and a machined dial. The smooth motion of the dial combined with its heavy-weight material and subtle illumination provides a touch point that radiates quality to the user. Incorporating all these elements together, Heyra created a Hi-Fi system that audiophiles can appreciate in the comfort of their home.
Designing with the product’s intended usage environment is an essential part for all product development. With Heyra, this meant understanding the home environment and how Heyra would fit into people’s rooms. Understanding the potential end user and their interior tastes and the range of different styles allowed a minimal design to be created that focused on complimenting the surroundings rather than shouting ‘look at me’. The subtle design theme continued to the interface, minimal but intuitive controls combined with weighted materials that exuded quality when touched.
Democratising high-quality audio by bringing the sound quality of professional studios into the heart of every home.
Active speakers remove the necessity and knowledge to pair an amplifier with a speaker. The built-in amplifiers are designed to produce optimal audio quality for the specific speaker, allowing you to focus on the sound output rather than the technical setup. Matching the inbuilt amplifiers with the speakers ensures what you hear is as close to the original as possible, making listening to lossless files an authentic experience.
Whether you prefer a fabric cover or to show the drivers, the magnetic speaker covers allow easy removal for display preference or cleaning.
The control unit comes with four RCS stereo connections, two 3.5mm jacks, and connections for two active speakers.
Colour choices for the Heyra system come in the choice of black or white to seamlessly integrate into the design of its environment.
The global home audio equipment market size was estimated at USD 29.56 billion in 2022 and is anticipated to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.3% from 2023 to 2030.
Audio Equipment Design & Development
Audio equipment design and development involves prototyping components for fit and function, but above all, making sure the audio quality reaches the expectations of the project.
To ensure this initial functional prototyping of the control unit untilsed SLS 3D prints, which allowed testing and fit of the system without the expense of higher-end materials. While the control unit could be prototyped with 3D printing, the speakers required wood to ensure an accurate sound quality could be assessed. Once the initial functional testing was complete, prototyping moved onto metal CNC’d parts, simulating the final material choice, to check fitment and assembly with the internal components and PCBs.
Prototyping in the final materials before production allowed the Heyra to interact with and feel the quality of the product before giving the final go ahead. The prototypes were also used to generate interest at trade shows and with potential customers.
