BATON ROUGE, LA — PreSonus announced that it has teamed up with Fulcrum Acoustic, which was founded in 2008, as part of its move to add PA speakers and studio monitors to its product line. Separately, PreSonus announced that has licensed Audinate’s Dante digital-media networking technology and will incorporate Dante into optional networking cards for several of its new products.
More details from PreSonus (www.presonus.com) and Fulcrum Acoustic (www.fulcrum-acoustic.com):
Fulcrum Acoustic is well known for cutting-edge, high-end passive speaker systems with exceptional fidelity, including groundbreaking designs for coaxial speakers. Employing the research of company cofounder and vice president of R&D David Gunness, Fulcrum Acoustic overcomes common loudspeaker performance limitations by integrating advanced DSP algorithms into its designs. The result is loudspeakers that provide stunning output and unmatched clarity, even at high SPLs, in the smallest enclosures possible.
A former loudspeaker designer at Electro-Voice and Eastern Acoustic Works (EAW), Gunness holds patents on several inventions and has written numerous technology whitepapers, many of them published by the Audio Engineering Society. The KF900 large-scale sound-reinforcement system, the DSA digitally steered array, and a suite of innovative processing techniques marketed as Gunness Focusing are all the result of his career-long emphasis on improving loudspeaker performance with innovative signal processing algorithms.
That made Fulcrum Acoustic the right partner for PreSonus’ Active Integration PA and studio-monitor speaker-development efforts. “Working with Dave Gunness and his team has been an honor and a pleasure,” remarks PreSonus Chief Technical Officer Bob Tudor. “The results of our collaboration are astounding, and this is just the beginning. It’s exciting for us to be able to combine Dave’s unique technology with our extreme DSP processing power in this new generation of products.”
The first results of the collaboration between PreSonus and Fulcrum Acoustic include the StudioLive AI-series PA speakers and Sceptre CoActual-series studio reference monitors, which will be showcased at the 2013 Winter NAMM show. Both systems employ Fulcrum Acoustic’s acclaimed TQ Temporal Equalization technology powered by PreSonus’ next generation 32-bit, 96 kHz, dual-core-processor Active Integration technology.
“I can’t think of a better group of people to partner with than the folks at PreSonus,” says Gunness. “With visionary engineers like Jim Odom and Bob Tudor; a history of innovative products that integrate hardware and software; and successful partnerships with several high-tech companies, PreSonus is perfectly positioned to integrate our technology with theirs and to reach customers that we can serve more effectively together than we could by ourselves.”
More details from PreSonus (www.presonus.com) about the licensing agreement with Audinate and Dante:
Audinate’s patented Dante solution is a combination of software, hardware, and standard TCP/IP protocols designed to transport many channels of high-resolution, uncompressed, low-latency digital media over relatively long distances and to multiple locations, using a standard 100 Mbps or 1 Gb Ethernet network. It is becoming the solution of choice for a variety of professional applications because it delivers tightly synchronized, sample-accurate playback while simplifying installation and configuration of AV networks.
“Networking and integrated systems are essential to the solutions we’re developing and currently delivering to our customers,” observes PreSonus CEO Jim Mack. “Audinate’s Dante technology will allow us to enhance the connectivity, control, and system monitoring of our entire line of live and studio products. The hardware and software systems that we currently offer become that much more powerful when the entire system can be connected and accessed through this network. And best of all, Dante is not a technology out on the horizon that will be here some day. It is here today, and our first products on the platform will be on the market this year.”
“PreSonus has built a reputation for developing a great line of innovative products, and as a result has become one of the fastest-growing equipment manufacturers in the pro-audio industry,” says Lee Ellison, CEO of Audinate. “We are pleased to work with PreSonus in providing Dante as a complete networking solution for its industry-leading products.”
