Why Audio Isn’t an All-in-One-Size-Fits-All Proposition

Rewind 10 years ago, and the stack of hardware in a basic conference room included a display, an audiovisual matrix switcher, an audio amplifier, a control processor, a DSP, a hardware based codec, a PTZ camera, ceiling or table microphones, wall or ceiling speakers, and a proprietary touch panel. All that was held together with […]

Why Audio Isn’t an All-in-One-Size-Fits-All Proposition

Autonomic Introduces the MMS-1e Music Streamer Featuring eAudioCast Audio-over-Ethernet Technology

Autonomic has announced the introduction of the MMS-1e whole-house music streamer featuring eAudioCast audio-over-Ethernet technology. The MMS-1e also resides in a new compact form factor, enabling integrators to easily locate the music streamer along with source devices anywhere in the home or in a traditional structured wiring enclosure. The completely solid state MMS-1e music streamer […]

Autonomic Introduces the MMS-1e Music Streamer Featuring eAudioCast Audio-over-Ethernet Technology

Crestron Ships New Six-Zone Distributed Audio Amp

Crestron’s new Six Zone “Plus Two” Amplifier (C2N-AMP-6X100) is now shipping. Designed specifically for mid-size home systems, the C2N-AMP-6X100 has 12 inputs, four stereo-line outputs, Ethernet connectivity and pre-amp controls. Each room output on the C2N-AMP-6X100 is capable of 100 watts for each of the six amplified zones. That’s 50 Watts per channel at 8 […]

Crestron Ships New Six-Zone Distributed Audio Amp

Niles Finally Ships Auriel Controller

Niles’s Auriel MRC-6430 whole-home audio controller is finally shipping. The MRC-6430 allows up to six distinct music sources to play different music in up to six rooms. Using TCP/IP, the MRC-6430 operates with virtually zero latency and is ready for future expansion into lighting control, remote management and HVAC control. That’s because Auriel is based […]

Niles Finally Ships Auriel Controller

Crestron Introduces Six-Zone Amplifier with 12 Inputs

Crestron unveiled its new 12-input, 6-Zone “Plus Two” Amplifier, specifically for mid-size audio systems, today at CEDIA Expo. Each room output on the C2N-AMP-6X100 is capable of 100 watts for each of the six amplified zones. That’s 50 watts per channel at 8 ohms or 75 watts per channel at 4 ohms. Outputs also may […]

Crestron Introduces Six-Zone Amplifier with 12 Inputs

AMX Ships Alero Eight-Zone Distributed Audio Power Amplifier

HARMAN’s AMX announced at CEDIA EXPO 2014 that it’s shipping its Alero 8 Zone Power Amplifier (ALR-AMP-8). Whether listening to music in the living room, the kitchen or outdoors, Alero has multi-room distributed audio with 16 channels using a Class D amplifier technology that, when in standby power, it requires no external cooling sources to […]

AMX Ships Alero Eight-Zone Distributed Audio Power Amplifier

Fusion Ships HD Wireless Audio Distribution System

Fusion Research has started shipping three new products that make up its Ovation Wireless Audio Distribution System. The new products include a Base Station that acts as the server and two new players, one amplified and one passive. The Base Station (FR-OBS) is hard wired onto a network and includes one analog source. The players […]

Fusion Ships HD Wireless Audio Distribution System

Autonomic Adds MMS-2A Music Player to Mirage System

Autonomic has introduced the new Mirage MMS-2A music player, which delivers what the company says is reference quality high-resolution audio through three independent streams to a multi-room system with as many as 96 zones. A new generation of the company’s cloud-based media server, the MMS-2A will store, sync, schedule and stream an entire music collection […]

Autonomic Adds MMS-2A Music Player to Mirage System

Autonomic Unveils New Features for the Mirage Audio System

Autonomic will be demonstrating new features of the Mirage Audio System (MAS) at CEDIA, including compatibility with SiriusXM Radio 2.0, Slacker Radio and Gracenote as well as a secure Dealer Portal enabling integrators to gain remote access to their customers’ Mirage Media Servers for diagnostics and firmware updates without having to send a technician onsite. […]

Autonomic Unveils New Features for the Mirage Audio System