New Gear

Turbosound's six-model Compact series includes four passive trapezoidal loudspeakers and two subwoofers, all outfitted with rigging features suited for portable live sound and fixed installation applications.

The Club Series Tempoflex from Sommer Cable is designed for permanent installations and mobile applications for theater and other live performances, particularly those where the mikes are allowed to dangle from truss.

Rational Acoustics's Smaart v.7, the culmination of an two-year development effort, is also the first version of Smaart designed and released solely by Rational Acoustics, who purchased the brand from EAW in November 2009.

The Smart DI from Optogate features an integrated microcontroller and an LCD display to address some of the problems commonly associated with traditional DI boxes: the need to hunt for signals between stage and desk, the lack of fine adjustments of the input signal and the "pop" heard when connecting or removing an input connector.

Lectrosonics' Aspen line of DSP matrix audio processors, now shipping, includes the SPN1624 matrix mixer, the SPN16i input-only module and the SPNConference telephone hybrid unit for teleconferencing. Features include TCP/IP control over Ethernet, unlimited input expandability, real-time clock, 48-channel matrix bus, 1 Gbps expansion port and 48-Volt phantom powering for all inputs.

EAW recently announced two new subs-one passive and one powered. The SB2001 Subwoofer, pictured here, which goes beyond the company's SB1001 with a dual 21-inch cone driver, provides more than double the volume of air displaced without a significant increase in size.

The Radial PowerPre microphone preamplifier fits inside a standard API style lunchbox frame. Its differential design and discreet components deliver up to 60dB of gain with low noise. The simplicity of the design is reminiscent of vintage equipment, and it avoids zero-cross distortion and other limitations imposed by off-the-shelf op-amps.

The Mackie SRM1801 Powered Subwoofer delivers 1000 watts of Class-D power in a lightweight portable design. The 18-inch woofer is designed to deliver high output, and active electronics include a precision crossover and tuning filters for accurate bass response.

Allen & Heath's iDR-64 adds a larger -format fixed I/O MixRack to the iLive digital mixer family, providing a high I/O capacity and a lower cost alternative to the modular iDR10 MixRack.

Audient's eight channel ASP2802 console, launched at MusikMesse 2010 in Frankfurt, combines analog features with DAW integration and control and includes Audient's Dual Layer Technology.

Ashly Audio's pêma (Protea Equipped Media Amplifier), a powered processor that will be featured at InfoComm 2010 (Booth #C6659), combines Ashly's DSP functionality with the company's amplifier functionality inside a two-rack space unit.

Powersoft's M Series consists of five new models including two 4-channel and three 2-channel versions. M Series amplifiers come in a one rack unit chassis, measure 14.1 inches in depth and weigh just over 16 lbs. All M Series models feature Powersoft's own combination of switch mode power supply and PWM output stages.