Based on the company’s PLM 20000Q, the PLM+ range is the most advanced touring platform Lab.gruppen has produced to date. The line comprises the PLM20k44 and the PLM12k44, each combining a true 4-input/4-output configuration for audio IO, as well as four Lake Processing modules.
Rational Power Management (RPM) technology – debuted on Lab.gruppen’s D Series install platform – allows the 12k44 to realise all of the performance characteristics of the 20k44 model, a unique feature that the company expects to have significant implications for a busy rental company. Rather than reducing channel count by bridging or reducing the total power or impedance the output is capable of driving, RPM allows power allocation across all channels to ensure the most efficient and rational use of total available power output from multiple amplifiers. This approach enables an inventory to be optimised as well as the workflow.
This technology is available in the install dedicated platform, D Series. Conceived to provide ‘true open interoperability’, D Series integrates with the widest range of digital audio and control protocols, bringing powerful benefits and unique capabilities that make a real world difference, to any demanding high-performance installation. Available in three power configurations (8kW, 1.2kW and 20kW total power output), the D Series platform is available in two variants – one featuring Lake processing and the other featuring Biamp’s Tesira. Each offers unique capabilities and advantages.
The Lake version provides a package of Lake Processing DSP with analogue, AES and a dual-redundant Dante network solution, supported by the creation of new custom software to provide extensive integration potential with most of the main systems manufacturers. The Tesira variant is the result of a collaboration between Lab.gruppen and Biamp. These models are equipped with Tesira DSP, as well as AVB audio and control, for ‘unheralded’ amplifier and DSP platform integration designed to ensure seamless interoperability between respective systems.
All models of both the PLM+ and D Series are now shipping.
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