Community Launches Groundbreaking DSPEC226 Loudspeaker Processor

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Sep 23, 2011 3:59 PM

Community Professional Loudspeakers has voiced the entrance of its groundbreaking loudspeaker processor, the dSPEC226. According to the firm, dSPEC represents a new draw close to configuring, determining and commissioning sound network installations. Notably, the dSPEC226 is similarly at home using loudspeakers from Community and other manufacturers. It is already in use in a few applications, inclusive the Sundome in Yakima, WA.

Intuitive and easy to use, dSPEC eliminates the extensive learning curvature that plagues many loudspeaker processors. When used with Community loudspeakers, users simply choose from an onboard library and dSPEC automatically assigns assembly lines endorsed lo-pass and hi-pass filters, visual equalization (including 1024-points of FIR EQ around CONEQ), protecting limiters, state reward and more. Additionally, dSPEC cleverly configures LF and HF outputs with optimal crossover slopes for bi-amplified loudspeaker models.

Loudspeakers not made by Community are simply accommodated by selecting from a extended palette of estimate functions that add countless crossover types, thorough protecting limiters, and 20 configurable filters on any of the 6 outlay channels.

Employing both a high-speed SHARC DSP and a Xilinx Spartan FPGA, dSPEC offers a horde of capabilities, in addition to a way of engineered workflow, not existing wherever else. All dSPEC models underline a 4 Input x 6 Output fixed-chain DSP design that includes 2x6 local analog I/Os. Various enlargement cards are existing to supply two extra analog inputs, two AES3 dual-channel digital inputs, or 8 CobraNet Inputs and Outputs. Additional enlargement cards will turn existing as new digital audio networking protocols earn marketplace acceptance, shortening the cost-burden for network installations that do not need a full form of I/O options.

Community is the initial firm to occupy CONEQ Acoustic Power visual algorithms, Real Sound Lab 's programmed loudspeaker equalization technology. CONEQ provides 1024 bands of low latency FIR equalization that squash the Acoustic Power Response of the choosen Community loudspeaker(s) with a grade of accuracy not practicable by other means.

Other modernized capabilities in the dSPEC processor add a unique Amplifier Calibration Port that measures the outlay characteristics of any amplifier in the network to precisely regulate dSPEC's 3 careful stages of limiters (peak, module long term) for rarely exact motorist protection.

"The foreword of dSPEC will re-define Community's draw close to sound bolster is to foreseeable future," product executive Chris Barrow said. "We painstakingly complicated the marketplace before determining how dSPEC could singly offer the needs of our customers.

"The outcome is a product that provides an strange alleviation in sonic quality, extraordinary motorist protection, noteworthy ease of use, and rarely organic Remote Control capability. Entire systems may be reconfigured at the hold of a symbol located roughly anywhere, without the need for a P.C. to be a permanent segment of the installation."

The key to this ease of use in workflow is the dSPEC's manage software, called Resyn, that walks the user by the routine of selecting loudspeaker variety and models, labeling I/O, surroundings insurance levels, substantiating network EQ, configuring user presets, and formulating access passwords. Community's Resyn software may be downloaded for analysis at no charge.v