EM Acoustics Reference Series loudspeakers have been installed Solid State Logic’s demo facility at its Oxford headquarters, providing a live sound environment for engineers to experience the company’s Live Series consoles. The system replaces a different portable solution that had been in place for 12 years, and comprises a pair of R8 compact precision point source speakers with a narrow 80 x 50 rotatable waveguide, supported by an S-15 subwoofer, powered by a DQ10 lightweight four-channel Class D switchmode amplifier managed using System Engineer software.
Tom Knowles, director of product management at SSL, said: “We use this room for visiting engineers to come in and do training on the desk or prepare their show files. You want a live engineer to come in and have a live experience. That means not using the studio monitors in this room because they’re not going to be mixing through studio monitors when they’re on a show.”
Ed Arnold, UK support team leader for large format consoles at SSL, added: “They offer more than enough level for us in this space and beyond, and they still maintain portability. They’re representative of what you might expect to find in a near-field situation, such as working in a festival tower.” Arnold also noted he was able to configure crossovers and delays within the System Engineer software without needing to consult a user manual.
Knowles added: “The system works very well, and that’s the whole point. SSL is known for its audio quality and one of the things we hear a lot about our Live desks is they sound great. You need a system to show that off and that’s part of the collaboration with EM Acoustics.”
Roger Harpum, business development manager at EM Acoustics, said: “We’re delighted that SSL chose our loudspeakers and electronics as the system for their live demo space. SSL desks have always been known for their exceptional audio quality, so to have them rely on our Reference Series loudspeakers to highlight that quality brings us great pride.”
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