Burmester Engineers Audio for New Porsche Panamera

When Porsche decided to enter the luxury sport-touring category with a new model, it left no stone unturned.

Before it started to design its new four-seat Panamera, it decided to tap into the expertise of German high-performance audio company Burmester to engineer a state-of-the-art surround sound system for the touring sedan, which costs between $90,000 to $132,000.

In joining the small fraternity of high-performance audio companies doing automative work, like Mark Levinson, Linn and Bowers & Wilkins, Burmester's will be exposed to a new class of affluent consumers.

"At Burmester we are proud to participate in such a project and to be given a chance to introduce our expert knowledge with a renowned partner like Porsche," the company says in a statement.

"In close collaboration with the Porsche development department a sound system has been created, which is exactly fitted for the Panamera and fulfills the highest requirements regarding sound quality, technology and design."

The Panamera's surround system incorporates 16 separate channels of amplification that add up to more than 1,000 watts of power. Burmester designed the system's speakers specifically for the car.

It features technologies including driver cones, crossover networks and Burmester's Air Motion Transformer (AMT) ribbon tweeter technology derived from the company's home audio product line.

Riders in the Panamera can adjust the system's sound through a menu-based interface that utilizes specific algorithms developed for the project to provide listeners with an optimized listening experience regardless of where they are sitting in the car.

Burmester's audio is also featured in the Bugatti EB 16.4 VEYRON.