Eastern Acoustic Works (EAW) has announced its UXA4416 line of four-channel DSP amplifiers along with a companion update to its Resolution software, targeting stadium, arena, house of worship, amphitheatre, outdoor festival applications.
The company claims that UXA4416 ‘represents a new generation’ of amplifier, with high-power class-D amplification, innovative processing and analogue/digital audio management. Pairing with the brand’s KF and SB Series loudspeakers, they promise ensure stability and continuity for KF passive line source systems.
‘Through the creation of our own line of amplifiers, we are unifying all EAW system packages,’ says EAW President, TJ Smith. ‘Our ongoing strategy makes cross rental more predictable and reliable by deploying products that are optimised by EAW engineering.’
Operating at 96kHz, the amplifiers improve system interoperability and offer reduced latency compared to previous UX and UXA products, which can be vital for live performance applications. In addition, 4x 4kW class-D amplification and 40-bit floating point DSP ensure powerful, high headroom audio capabilities for systems of any scale.
UXA4416 amplifier presets unify the performance of all supported EAW professional lousspeakers and arrayed systems with four processed channels of audio amplification, complete with a dedicated Greybox preset library. A front panel 4.3-inch display offers an easy touchscreen or tactile encoder access to the EAW library and editing. Factory presets use EAW’s Beamwidth Matched Crossover, Focusing and DynO technologies. The result being a refined system impulse response and enhanced power delivery to a chosen speaker loudsystem. Resolution software provides a path to remote management and amplifier grouping of a EAW speaker ecosystem.
Prioritising versatility, UXA4416 amplifiers offer both analogue and digital audio inputs, with configurable General-Purpose Input/Output (GPIO) and Dante connections available for digital network input options.
The Resolution 2.11 update is a companion release that provides support for UXA4416. It also contains improvements to the software’s GUI and Array Assistant, a more efficient RSX/NTX firmware upgrade procedure and updated KF210 Voicing. An updated version of AC6 Firmware is also available.
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