Neutrik UK has appointed a network of official regional resellers across Great Britain for its Xirium Pro digital wireless audio link system. The network will serve both UK-based and visiting overseas Xirium Pro users.
The reseller network comprises Everything Audio in Southern England, Studiocare Professional Audio in Northern England and the Midlands, and The Warehouse Sound Services in Scotland.
Neutrik Xirium Pro is a dedicated ‘studio quality’ digital wireless audio link; a cable replacement system that sets a new professional standard in transmission of robust, low latency, high-resolution digital audio signals over long distances. Based on proprietary DiWA (Digital Wireless Audio) technology, Xirium Pro transmits totally uncompressed 48kHz, 24-bit audio, in the licence-free 5GHz band.
Neutrik’s proprietary DiWA protocol transmits a 1.15MHz data stream, something that can only be achieved in the UHF bandwidth with the use of signal companding. Modular construction enables that corresponding TX and RX Xirium Pro base stations to be equipped with modules to enable transmission of digital, audio Dante, or analogue signal streams via the system. Up to six channels of audio can be transmitted to an unlimited number of receivers, up to a usable distance of 500 m; line-of-sight and point-to-multiple point. Greater distances can be achieved, as required, with the use of the system’s repeater units.
Providing a rapid and easy means of full bandwidth audio connectivity for events, visitor attractions and indoor and outdoor venues, of the most demanding scale and complexity, the system is ideal for use in situations where it is overly time-consuming or operationally impractical to run audio cables.
‘Operating principally in the location sound business with a sales and operations centre at Elstree Film Studios, we have recently added a rental division,’ says Roger Patel, MD at Everything Audio. ‘As a company with considerable experience in UHF wireless microphone systems, Xirium Pro strengthens our offering for the location sound market and presents new opportunities to extend our reach into live sound and event production. The build quality and extended range audio link that Xirium Pro offers, allows us to offer new solutions for both markets.’
‘We are supplying an ever increasing number of systems for use in a diverse range of applications, including art installations, national and local events, and major visitor attractions,’ says Neutrik UK, Head of Sales & Marketing, Andy Croucher. ‘As the user base expands across the UK and throughout Europe, it necessary to have a suitably expert and experienced network of resellers who can support both UK based users and visiting production teams from abroad. In these three companies we clearly have that skill base and experience.’
‘Xirium Pro is at the cutting edge of audio transmission for a vast array of applications, making it the perfect product for working in a wide range of challenging environments,’ says The Warehouse Sound Services Director, Janet Murray. ‘It transmits studio quality audio over distance, even in the most densely populated RF surroundings, and is able to interface with analogue, digital or Dante audio signals. As RF specialists, Xirium Pro enhances our offering and enables us to engage in an even wider range of projects.’
‘A robust and reliable wireless audio system like Xirium Pro has the potential to become a big player in the touring and events industry,’ adds Chris Kelly, Senior Service Engineer at Studiocare Professional Audio. ‘Until now there just hasn’t been anything out there that you could rely on.’
Over the past two years Xirium Pro has been used with increasing frequency by hire companies and sound designers throughout Europe, across a range of events and applications, ranging in scale and complexity. Among the largest of these was last year’s Kölner Lichter (Cologne Fireworks), where Sound Bros deployed Xirium Pro to feed a total of seven PA delay towers on either bank of the river Rhine. At the other end of the scale, ZISYS Events supplied a system to feed audio to an ‘audio artwork’ by Susan Philipsz in the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh from an adjacent building.
