Originally Posted by
Stratmangler
NXT are probably still making a bundle fitting out fighter aircraft with anti-noise panels (cockpit noise is played back as near to real time as is possible at 180 degrees out of phase to the original sound, and at the same volume - the result is that cockpit noise is very low compared to no panel).
The audio market would be small potatoes to them.
The actual NXT technology originally came from SAAB, who were fitting it to their jet fighters. The difference between this and other techs at the time was the use of 3D panel structures and how they controlled the distributed mode resonance. NXT was set up as an IP shell to work the licence rights for the technology in the audio and consumer electronics fields. It was originally set-up as a joint venture, but SAAB sold out on the 2nd round of investment when the company became incorporated as NXT and was spun out of Verity group, which sold off parts of Cyrus and Mission to fund the new venture.
One of the directors where I worked in Cambridge was also on the board back in the early days, he used to bang on about it all the time. They were doomed to fail once they had too much investment to ever make everyone a decent return.
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