The famous Funktion One demo room has got some company at this year's show as we take over a whole new space at Earls Court for large scale demonstrations of the latest loudspeaker technology.
Martin Audio took huge strides forward with the launch of the award winning MLA System at the PLASA Show two years ago, they return this year to take over the AudioLab, on Monday 10 September.Approaching the problem of controlled coverage in poor acoustic spaces, Martin Audio Engineers came up with the unique concept of OmniLine®, where rather than applying DSP to a traditional column loudspeaker, OmniLine's vertical beam-forming is achieved by physically articulating individual modules to curve the array.
The actual array configuration for a specific venue is determined by powerful, patent pending optimisation software, which makes intelligent judgements about the 'goodness' of the array's SPL distribution against objective target functions.
Requiring only simple EQ and Limiting, an OmniLine array offers the Installer a product that is easy to install and cost effective in a competitive market place.
Having their release at PLASA, the high-output XD15 and XD12 bring new levels of performance to 2-way enclosures, and are complimented by a range of custom brackets. Also at AudioLab will be the DD6 'Differential Directivity' enclosure which offers a number of unique features, coupled with surprisingly high output from such a diminutive loudspeaker.
Applications Engineer Peter Child, together with members of the UK Sales Team, Al Brown, David Ferreira and Kevin McNally will be on hand throughout the day and will be giving presentations on the above products at 10:30 12:00 13:30 15:00 16:30 on Monday 10th September 2012.
"We are very pleased to have the opportunity to deliver a number of worthwhile audio presentations at the PLASA show. All too often audio demos at shows are little more than 'these speakers deliver high SPL'. AudioLab's approach will give us a full day to inform our customers about our latest products in a sophisticated and relaxing environment." Al Brown, National Sales.
On Tuesday 11 September, Bose Professional Systems Division will use a mix of live bands and recorded music to demonstrate the new award winning RoomMatch™ series of array module loudspeakers, powered by the award winning PowerMatch™ PM8500 configurable professional power amplifier. RoomMatch™ introduces Progressive Directivity Arrays, Bose's new category of curvilinear array. Designed to overcome the acoustic performance limitations of conventional line-array and point-source loudspeakers, PDA's use waveguide technology to direct sound more precisely by reducing unwanted reflections. Used together or alone in a choice of 15 coverage patterns, RoomMatch modules perform as a single loudspeaker to ensure optimal sound coverage for a particular listening area and provide sound designers with unprecedented scalability and configurability, delivering concert quality sound more consistently, regardless of room size, shape, or acoustic properties.
Taking over the AudioLab on Sunday 9 September is NORTON®audio, specialists in sound reinforcement in club, concert and theatre environments. NORTON®audio, who's accolades include Fat Boy Slim on the Copa Cabana beach in Rio, with 32 delay towers over 4.2 km and over 2.5 million viewers, and Beyoncé's South American Tour, offer a complete product line from different scales line-source-array-systems to point-source-systems, stage monitoring and amplifiers.
The LS2 (line-source array), is a very compact and powerfu
