Qijuk
“How to get the best sound quality from real wood?”
Oht wood speaker
By collaborating with Qijuk and Paul Epp, I was assigned to design a working prototype, using the Qijuk Roasted wood, showing it's acoustic properties.
The main objective on this project was the quality of sound and the chalange of using real wood for the whole cabinet.
It has it's own active Tube Amplifier, bluetooth, Airplay, Apple & Android Duck.
OHT wood
pannaq™ OHT wood is an innovative eco-solution by Qijuk, a Canadian based company that couples international forestry expertise with German engineering. The entire process is environmentally friendly, as only natural, non-toxic treatments are used, without compromises to aesthetics and functions.
All of the pannaq ™ OHT wood is sourced from PEFC certified forests FSC carefully. It is then thermally treated with oil in Germany. The oil used to treat the wood is so natural that it is edible and FDA approved.
The result of OHT, oil heated treatment, which was developed by Prof. Dr. A. Rapp and Prof. Dr. M. Sailer in close cooperation with the German Federal Research Centre for Forestry and Forest Products (BFH) in Hamburg, is a safe, natural and eco-friendly wood product with exceptional dimensional stability, improved resistance to weathering and decay, optimised insect repellency, outstanding durability and superior acoustic capability.
The Design
One of the reasons a lot of people don't use solid wood is that every wood will have it's own sonic character. Just like a violin or a piano sounding board, the cabinet will colour the sound. The idea of a speaker is to reproduce the input signal not introduce it's own qualities. I wanted to show that pannaq has amazing sonic characteristics as well.
