01 — The originating expression
An engineering company — Bellevue, Washington
Active loudspeakers,
deeply engineered
We build active loudspeakers around proprietary nonlinear distortion correction. Every signal path — conversion, processing, amplification — is designed and measured to a single end: the reproduction of music with mechanical and electrical artifacts removed.
01
The thesis
A loudspeaker is a measurement instrument first
Most loudspeakers are designed by ear and refined toward a sound. We work the other way around. Every Excité loudspeaker is engineered to reproduce its input signal with the lowest measurable distortion, and we publish what we measure.
Our architecture begins where most loudspeaker engineering ends: with direct measurement of every non-linearity that matters. The motor, the suspension, the inductance — measured directly, both during driver characterization and continuously during operation. Those live measurements drive a real-time, feed-forward correction loop, computed on a custom FPGA, applied per-driver before amplification. The correction is grounded in present-tense measurement at every sample. The patents are filed. The hardware is in our hands.
Excité Engineering is a company built around a single engineering thesis, refined into three product lines, and offered to listeners who care to know what they are hearing.
02
Where it began
Origin Compact · Concept rendering
The Origin Compact is the speaker we wanted most
Before there was a company, there was a question: what does a small standmount sound like when you stop accepting that it should compromise? Before the patents, before the FPGA, before the cabinet design — a single answer, fully engineered, with no concession to size.
The Origin Compact is the result. A two-way, sealed standmount built around a 5.5-inch mid-woofer and a precision soft-dome tweeter, individually amplified and individually corrected. Each driver's non-linearities — motor, suspension, inductance — are measured directly, both during characterization and continuously during operation, and those measurements drive the same feed-forward correction platform that runs through the entire Excité line.
Every other Excité product begins from the question this one answers.
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The product lines
A single thesis. Two expressions of it
Each line shares the same signal architecture, distortion-correction platform, and engineering discipline. They differ in scale, materials, and the degree to which we have gone in pursuit of the absolute. Every product on this page is currently in development; nothing is shipping yet. Specifications and ship dates will be published per product as each design is locked.
02 — Without compromise
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The technology
Distortion correction, grounded in measurement
Every loudspeaker is a non-linear system. Force-displacement, suspension compliance, current- and position-dependent inductance — each contributes harmonic and intermodulation distortion that a passive crossover cannot remove and a linear amplifier cannot anticipate.
We measure the non-linearity directly. The three parameters that govern a moving-coil driver's distortion at any meaningful excursion — Bl(x), Kms(x), Le(x, i) — are measured directly, both during driver characterization and continuously during operation. Those live measurements feed a real-time, feed-forward correction loop on FPGA, ahead of amplification, computed per-sample, per-driver. The correction is built from what is happening to the driver now — not from what a model would predict.
Feed-forward correction · per driver
ucorr(n) = u(n) − ε(s(n); θ(n))
s, θ — measured live
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s, θ — measured live
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