Ai's products employ a host of advanced and patented technologies that combine to deliver the best sound quality available in the marketplace today.

Ai's technologies come from the decades of research of CTO Dr. Earl Geddes. Ai, through Dr Geddes, holds 17 patents currently with 7 more pending. Many of these technologies are embedded in the ESP mains and subwoofers designs.

Ai's systems are designed to be as accurate as possible in virtually any setting. Not only does this more easily provide an even response, it allows tuning a system towards a specific objective, or the specific tastes of the system operator, without having to first correct for the inherent limitations within the system. By being as accurate as possible to begin with, alterations can be made to the system without fear of disturbing the corrective EQ that would normally have been used to achieve a flat response. Ai's speaker systems are designed to be as accurate as currently possible in small and medium-sized venues.

Research has shown that non-direct sounds should arrive later than 10 to 20 milliseconds (depending on frequency) and/or be significantly lower in level in order not to be perceived as part of the direct field. Sounds arriving earlier than this time window will confuse the human hearing mechanism and detract from the clarity and timbre of the sound. This is most easily discerned in normal designs as a reduction in overall image clarity (placement of specific instruments or sounds within the perceived sound field).

By correctly controlling a loudspeaker's directivity characteristics, it is possible to reduce the amount of reflected sound arriving before the 10 millisecond threshold. This creates a loudspeaker that is not only more accurate, but is significantly easier to setup properly in a real room. This is achieved in Ai's true constant directivity (CD) waveguides.

The ESP line of products has a frequency response that is virtually flat up to off-axis locations of 22.5° (a 45° arc) and is uniform and smooth at every point contained within this coverage pattern. Beyond 22.5°, high frequencies (500 Hz and up) roll off virtually flat with frequency, diminishing evenly as one moves further off axis. The polar pattern at the crossover point is perfectly matched between the low frequency driver and the high frequency waveguide. This controlled polar pattern matching between the drivers is possible because of proper waveguide design and time alignment between the drivers. Consequently, the loudspeaker has an almost theoretically perfect impulse response.