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BSS expands Soundweb London range
Andy Wood Apr 22 2008, 11:00am
Four new devices added to DSP family
BSS Audio has introduced four new products to its Soundweb London range of digital signal processors.
The new BLU-800 (pictured), BLU-320, BLU-160 and BLU-120 join the existing BLU-80, BLU-32 and BLU-16 devices in the series. A new version of HiQnet London Architect, v2.00, provides support for the four new devices and several significant feature additions.
A dedicated and comprehensively featured Room Combine Processing Object abstracts the complexity of room combining applications and greatly reduces programming time for such applications. The addition of Dynamic Metering allows efficient troubleshooting of Soundweb London systems through the use of simple signal presence monitoring.
The new devices feature a low latency, fault-tolerant digital audio bus of 256 channels. In addition to providing a backbone for the transportation of multiple channels, this bus also facilitates the creation of large, fault-tolerant, centralised matrices containing multiple devices. The digital audio bus uses standard, inexpensive Cat 5e or Cat 6 cable, which enables a distance of 100 metres between devices; fibre media converters and fibre can be utilised to increase this distance in excess of 40 km.
A ring topology ensures that if a single connection fails, all bus channels are retained with negligible interruption to audio. Comprehensive error reporting notifies users of a cable fault or termination issue so that necessary steps can be taken to restore the integrity of the system. Further processing fault tolerance can be achieved by spanning matrices over multiple devices.
The BLU-800 and BLU-160 models feature configurable DSP, boasting four times the processing capability of existing Soundweb London DSP devices. The combination of the digital audio bus and increased DSP capability allow 128 x 128 matrices within individual devices and 128 x n matrices within a system.
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