The first fruit of the relationship is the use of Audinate’s Dante Brooklyn modules to provide a high-quality, tightly synchronised TCP/IP networking solution for Four Audio’s HD2 loudspeaker management system. This will enable users to stream 24-bit audio data, control and have the ability to monitor HD2 devices over a normal computer network using one Ethernet cable. Next to the usual features of an audio controller, the HD2 provides more than 130dB dynamic range at the inputs and allows control of the phase response of the speaker down to very low frequencies. Its sophisticated limiter concept uses RMS and peak limiters for the amplifier and thermal and peak limiters for the speakers. Four Audio is also integrating Dante into solutions for wave field synthesis systems that provide up to several hundred audio channels.
‘Dante enables us to set up these systems with the minimum of Ethernet cables, which we couldn’t do in the past,’ says Four Audio Managing Director, Rainer Thaden. ‘You can control and monitor everything from a laptop. Setting up a PA system or a large sound installation has never been easier. Using Audinate’s Dante Virtual Soundcard (DVS), it will now be possible to stream the audio data directly from the computer’s Ethernet card.’
Dante offers a ‘no-hassle, self-configuring, true plug-and-play digital audio network’ using standard Internet Protocols. Already a market leading solution, it also promises a migration path to upgrade to new standards such as the IEEE Audio Video Bridging (AVB). ‘We are excited to welcome Four Audio to our growing list of licensees,” says John R McMahon Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Audinate, ‘Four Audio has equipped the biggest wave field synthesis system presently in use and we are proud to be a part of their future product solutions.’
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