As with the existing four-channel PLM 10000Q, the PLM 14000 integrates Dante networked audio distribution, Dolby Lake drive processing, and load verification with real-time performance monitoring into a single 2U hardware unit plus unified software controller. The PLM Series is now the exclusive hardware platform for new Dolby Lake processing, and the addition of the PLM 14000 enables even more complete and extensive system solutions built around this unique combination of technologies.
While based on Lab.gruppen's road-proven FP+ Series, the amplifier platform in the PLM 14000 incorporates further enhancements for greater sustained output power. New circuitry provides substantially greater current-carrying capabilities and the Regulated Switch Mode Power Supply (R.SMPS) is optimised to deliver full power during long low-frequency bursts. PLM 14000 also offers extreme power density, patented Intercooler cooling, a full suite of protection features, and a Power Average Limiter (PAL) to prevent tripping of mains breakers. Parallel or redundant inputs and outputs are provided for analog, AES digital and Dante networked audio signals.
Lab.gruppen has also announced that PLM Series units will incorporate new functions designed to satisfy requests from AV system designers, and to meet safety code requirements for voice alarm systems. A complete third-party control protocol will allow seamless integration into systems managed by the control platforms such as Crestron and AMX, with all critical status, fault, warning and network data made available. Pilot tone and line monitoring functions have also been added to the PLM's feature set.
"PLM 14000, like the PLM 10000Q, offers a fully integrated solution that is more than the sum of its parts," stated Lab.gruppen head of marketing Tim Chapman. "Comprising a full palette of processing tools from Dolby Lake, audio networking from Dante, plus load verification and performance monitoring, all built into Lab.gruppen's unrivalled amplifier platform, PLM 14000 brings technical and operational benefits to both live touring and fixed installations in a new format tailored to extreme high-power applications."
(Jim Evans)
