Nature makes sound in two ways at once – a Common Mode pressure field and a Differential Mode sound field. Conventional audio only ever captured the first. Molecular Acoustics captures, extracts and reproduces both, from earbuds to arenas.
The Principle
Founder Klaus Kaetel – Dipl.-Ing., four decades in electroacoustics – concluded that every natural sound source generates two basic field types. Capturing only the common mode field strips away information the ear uses to place instruments and voices in real space. The whole of Molecular Acoustics is a single idea applied at three points in the audio chain.
The straight line vector component every microphone and speaker has captured for a century. Essential, well understood – and only half of what the source actually radiates.
The rotational sound velocity vectors that characterize the true nature of a sound source. Molecular Acoustics is built to record it, derive it, and radiate it – deliberately kept separate from capture to playback.
Explore by Function
Capture records both fields at the source. Extract derives the Differential Mode from the recordings the world already has. Reproduce renders both fields together, in any form factor.
Three orthogonal opposing-diaphragm pairs record Common Mode plus a Differential signal on every axis – while still outputting standard B-format.
Explore Capture →A similarity-steered algorithm derives Differential Mode from any stereo or multichannel recording – no new format, licensable as software.
Explore Extract →A direct path for the listener and a room-energizing path for the Differential Mode – from a dodecahedron sphere emitter to a two-driver hi-fi cabinet.
Explore Reproduce →Explore by Market
Capture, Extract and Reproduce recombine differently for each application. Choose the lens that matches your world.
Directional PA for the audience, a Differential Mode sphere emitter for the room – direct and envelopment, in controlled proportion.
Explore Live → ▦ Market · InstallM.A. radiation for restaurants, retail and hospitality – coherent, pleasant sound across the whole floor, on ordinary stereo feeds.
Explore Install → ◈ Market · CETwo-midrange CM/DM cabinets, soundbars, TVs and headphones – the most scalable form of the principle, from a familiar shape.
Explore CE → ▤ Market · AutoExtract in the head unit, reproduce with two-to-four added drivers – every seat in the performance, not just the one that was tuned.
Explore Automotive →Grounded, not just claimed
The reproduction and capture hardware is protected by granted US patents; the extraction layer is patent-pending, granted already in first jurisdictions. The signal chain is specified to block-diagram level – not concept marketing.
Molecular Acoustics licenses across capture hardware, an OEM-ready extraction DSP block, and reproduction reference designs. Explore where the M.A. chain fits your product.