in InstallationInstallation Audio technology There was no shortage of product introductions and upgrades on audio companies’ stands
Professional audio brand of PVS, Audac, unveiled its new range of MERO in-wall speakers, along with its SMA and SMQ amplifier range. MERO incorporates three models – 20W, 100W and 120W versions. The high-end in-wall speakers are designed to blend into any interior. The rectangular shape of the speakers offers an unobtrusive design: the slim grille has a border only 1mm thick, and the grille protrudes by only 3.2 mm when installed. AVnu Alliance unveiled its first
AVnu-certified AVB product, with chairman and president Rick Kreifeldt declaring “2014 is our year”. Extreme Networks earned the first certification for its Summit 440 switches family, with 14 products gaining certification in total. Kreifeldt added that this is “a big thing for the industry as it simplifies the specifiers’ world”. Consultants can simply specify ‘AVnu certification’ on a product and not worry about which part of the AVB protocol was implemented. More products are in the pipeline with switches and endpoints in the process of being given the AVnu seal of approval. ‘Safe and Sound’ was the theme at the Bosch stand, where products from Bosch Security Systems and Bosch Communication Systems were once again shown side by side. EN54 certification was an important strand of this theme. “Bosch is the first company worldwide to be offering a flexible and scalable, EN-certified system comprising pro-sound and life-safety components from a single source,” said Oliver Sahm, director application design with Bosch Communications Systems. The only notable exception to this is power supplies, which the company does not manufacture. Biamp launched Tesira 2.0, the latest version of its family of DSP-based systems. At its heart is TesiraFORTÉ, a series of audio processors that extend AVB to application-specific settings. Eight preconfigured models (four AVB and four non-AVB) are available – designed for conferencing, telephony and VoIP environments. “With TesiraFORTÉ, we’re extending Tesira technology to application- specific and value-conscious designs – bringing exceptional AVB audio solutions to everyday applications,” said Justin O’Connor, audio product
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anchor a powerful system for installations in arenas and large auditoriums, as well as tours and festivals. The LYON-W can serve as downfills. Powersoft was sporting its
Wienand Mensendiek and Sina Petzold of Sennheiser with the TeamConnect audio and web conferencing product
manager, Biamp Systems. Shipping with Tesira 2.0 is Biamp’s new DAN-1 digital server networking card, which functions as a gateway interface and supports 64 × 64 channels of Dante audio. The DAN-1 can be installed as a standalone solution, alongside AVB or CobraNet; or can work with both. Perhaps the most unexpected
product on the Christie stand was its home-grown cinema sound offering, called Vive Audio. Developed to enable the company to offer cinemas an audio upgrade package to complement their move to digital projection technology, Vive Audio features an articulated, single enclosure line array speaker design and ribbon driver technology, combined with what is claimed to be the first use of high-powered Class D amplification in cinema. DiGiCo introduced its D2-Rack at ISE 2014. Currently available for use with the SD8 and SD9 consoles, the D2-Rack is designed to support and expand the SD Range’s higher sample rate I/O solutions. It comes with either BNC or Cat5 MADI connections, allowing it to be used with a number of DiGiCo consoles or as a standalone unit. By using the latest convertors found in DiGiCo’s SD Range, the D2-Rack offers a more compact, more efficient, more affordable rack solution for connection at either 48kHz or 96kHz with no
I/O reduction. Martin Audio offered a sneak
preview of the multipurpose DD12 two-way loudspeaker, which will be launched later in the year. The powered loudspeaker combines onboard networking, DSP and Class D amplification with advanced transducers and Differential Dispersion horn technology. The speaker’s internal memory allows factory plug-and-play or user-generated DSP preset ‘snapshots’ to be recalled by means of a button on the rear panel, instead of using computer control.
ISE 2014 saw the trade show premiere of the self-powered
LYON linear sound reinforcement system from Meyer Sound. By incorporating the technology of the LEO family in a lighter and more compact package, Meyer Sound believes that the LYON line array loudspeaker system extends the advantages of highly linear self-powered systems to a broader range of venues and applications. LYON is available in two versions: the LYON-M main loudspeaker and the LYON-W wide-coverage loudspeaker. Complemented by the 1100-LFC low-frequency control element and the Galileo Callisto loudspeaker management system, the LYON-M main loudspeaker is designed to
new branding on a stand shared with its Dutch distributor TM Audio. The company marked its fifth ISE by previewing DEVA – a self-contained multimedia device designed for the installation market. The long-awaited system, which is set for full launch at this month’s Prolight + Sound show in Frankfurt, integrates multiple technologies such solar power, bidirectional WiFi 802.11n AV communication, audio and camera. The lightweight and weatherproof solution also incorporates a microphone, lighting and a Class D amplifier with an 8in speaker. Also making an appearance on the company’s stand was the Ottocanali 124K eight-channel amplifier, which offers a wide range of system control and monitoring functions. QSC launched the TouchMix-8
and TouchMix-16 portable digital mixers at ISE 2014. The mixers, which have 12 and 20 input channels respectively, offer a choice of Advanced Mode operation (total control over all parameters) or Simple Mode (most essential controls only). Specifications for both include
four-band, fully parametric EQ with both variable hi-and lo-pass filters, as well as comprehensive dynamics processing on each input channel. Four mix busses feed four internal digital effects processors. Comprehensive dynamics, graphic EQ, hi-pass, lo-pass and notch filters and
SHOW REVIEW: ISE 2014
Biamp’s Justin O’Connor presenting the latest generation of Tesira products
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