Presonus adds a line of speakers.

[malsackj]

These speakers are for the live audio and band use.

They have wifi and a linux processer with dsp processing power.
They talk to the new Studio live mixer, and IPad.

http://www.fohonline.com/current-issue/ ... akers.html

Look out for the next big upgrade in our Home theater speakers.

This will drive the custom sound people crazy as we start to
hack the linux and the DSP and insert some crazy fun stuff.

 

[malsackj]

So does anyone have any input or interest in a speaker that has wifi link and programmable DSP.

Would you find this helpfull in adjusting the phase relationship between a Sub and the mids.

Adjusting delay times to adjust for room variations and the spacing between speakers.

 

[PaulyT]

Would be fun to play with, big learning curve for most HT folks, though. For this audience, I'd think the most important element would be some sort of mic+rta/rt60/phase analysis to assist with making the adjustments, otherwise how would one know how make "good" changes? For bigger rooms, yeah some timing adjustment for surrounds could be very cool, though receivers/processors like the Onkyo have distance inputs for all speakers which I assume affects that? I'm not really sure...

Biggest drawbacks of this system are class-d amps, and lots of DSP - both things that home audio "purists" are wary of.

 

[malsackj]

The only purists that I would accept the argument from is Soundhound and his vinyl collection.
Or the 30 ips reel to reel .

CD is digital and we have been in a digital environment for more than two decades.

Yes some of this processing is available in the receivers today but I feel we could use in the higher end processing to phase align the crossover. This would make the receiver better able to hand changes when we upgrade and need to retune the system. (room acoustic, speaker, processing).

The wifi could provide the wireless data connection to each. Add in a Video time code so that the speakers have a time sync to reference from. That would help eliminate the sync between center channel dialog and the picture from being off.

 

[Botch]

I don't play in a band anymore, but this system sounds tantalizingly close to what I've always wanted. The speakers are self-powered, and communicate via Wifi with the mixer and iDevices, but it sounds like they still have XLR inputs. :x

My dream: being able to set up a speaker on stage left, plug it into the wall for A/C, same on stage right, set the mixer in the back of the room and plug it into the wall, and then have everything communicate without running speaker cables. That would be a working musician's dream, really shortening setup/teardown time, worrying about patrons tripping over snakes, etc. Doesn't sound like this system quite gets there...

 

[malsackj]

Agreed on that. The wifi is functional on the DSP and amp configuration and monitoring, but does not handle the signal. If wifi handled the signal it would be cool. I would like to see that also along with the time code function that would ensure that the signals are on time in the correct place.

Having this time sync for a home receiver would be cool also because the video could be synced up with the sound and it would not matter what room it is in and how the speakers are arranged because now you can have them dialed in from a zero point that is the perfect listening spot.

If you had the need to place the left front speaker way out in left field that would not matter because the key listening position would force the video sync with the audio sync to time align based on the exagerted left side. That left speaker would be up in volume to ensure that it reachs the key position at 84 db? The movie and other speakers would adjust in time to sync up with the time for the far left out field position. Giving a peception of being where it should be.

 

[malsackj]

Because Flint would really want to see the variable phase adjuster for the subs back. The DSP in the home theater processor should have an adjustable setting that Flint or our other people can use to adjust the phase balance between the sub and the other speakers to reduce problems with the transitions from the sub to the main speakers.

Some of the system already have the distance corrections going on but none of them are set to a time sync on the video. This just adds the the accuracy of the delivered product. By delaying the video to better compensate the time sync with the furthest speaker to create an accurate delivery of the sound to the video.