Abitana is the official distributor of Novasonar invisible flat-panel loudspeakers in Belgium.

Sound is wonderfully invisible. So why should you have to see loudspeakers?

Architects and interior decorators have been asking this question for generations. There are numbers of approaches to conceal loudspeakers in walls, ceilings and furniture. Up until now, however, they have always resulted in sound being compromised.
With the Novasonar system by ML Audio a revolutionary new solution has been found. The Novasonar system directly converts walls, ceilings or furniture into sound bodies without sound or room design being compromised. The Novasonar system by ML Audio brings technology and design together like no other architectural component.
Enjoy maximum sound quality invisibly, wherever you want. The surface of Novasonar systems can be freely designed, for example with wallpaper and paint or extensive plaster and stucco work. Open for the future.

Novasonar flat-panel loudspeakers operate on the principle of a bending-wave transducer.
The bending-wave transducer is modeled on musical instruments as guitars or violins. With these instruments, a vibration is translated to the body through the strings, causing the body itself to vibrate. The surface disperses this vibration as sound. The instrument is - so to speak - a vibrating sound body.

The Novasonar flat-panel loudspeaker by ML Audio is also a vibrating sound body. It is stimulated, however, by an electro-magnetic diaphragm system, the exciter. The frequency range is very broadband and ranges from 100 Hz to 18000 Hz over the entire dispersion angle of almost 180° horizontally and 180° vertically. If necessary, this frequency range can be enhanced with a subwoofer from 30 Hz to 100 Hz. If the dispersion behaviour of a Novasonar flat-panel loudspeaker is compared to a conventional cone loudspeaker, it could be said that the difference is about equal to the heat distribution of an open fire compared to a central heating system, whereby the dispersion characteristic of the Novasonar flat-panel loudspeaker equals the pleasant and balanced dispersion characteristic of the central heating system.

With these properties the Novasonar flat-panel loudspeaker offers excellent audio qualities. With the special ML stereo matrix a single Novasonar flat-panel speaker can even be converted into a stereo loudspeaker with unmatched audio quality and space dispersion behaviour.

Novasonar flat-panel loudspeakers can be freely designed, exactly as needed by you. Size, surface and form (in a two-dimensional sense) are almost endlessly variable.

The following surface designs are available:

• Artistic designs painted directly on the surface
• Laquered surfaces • Wallpapered surfaces
• Surfaces painted with dispersion paints, etc.
• Plastered surfaces
• Surface reconstructions
• Real wood veneer
• Laminates
• Permanently or reversibly laminated prints
• Poster laminations
• Lettering
• Self-adhesive surfaces
• Screen coatings
• Hygienic surfaces
• Metal surfaces
• And numberless other surface designs