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PMC opened things up in a big way on Thursday night with a grand party at the refurbished Capitol Studios, the world’s first installation of the company’s QB1-A main monitors. Each channel has an expansive 4,825 watts of Class-D amplification at its disposal: 275W on the 34mm HF driver, 550W on the 75mm midrange, and 4,000W on the four 10-inch bass drivers). Max SPL of 132 dB at 1 meter. It even employs air movement technologies through the front ports based on Formula One designs.
Introducing the QB1-A,: PMC’s newest large-scale studio monitor design, and a bold statement of the state of the art, the result of extensive customer research and innovative driver performance analyses based on opto-acoustic laser interferometry. This is a Class-D active ATL™ speaker with analogue and digital inputs, featuring exceptional electro-mechanical engineering finessed by DSP control, and immense headroom (4825W per channel) wedded to pinpoint dynamics for unparalleled speed, depth, accuracy and power.
With a maximum SPL of 132dB at one metre and a quartet of 10-inch carbon fibre/Nomex® piston bass drivers, the QB1-A can certainly produce level — but not at the expense of accuracy or increased distortion. The cutting-edge on-board DSP provides driver unit optimisation, EQ and sophisticated crossover networks, while the wired RJ45 desktop control provides user-friendly access to user EQ settings via its backlit display and jog wheel, with the ability to store up to four user setup presets. Even the physical dimensions have been carefully considered: at 1092 x 820 x 520 millimetres (WHD), the QB1-A will retrofit into almost all existing studio soffits. Thanks to its ATL™ design, free-standing use has no impact on its effortlessly smooth bass response. Whether soffit-mounted or not, the QB1-A delivers the transparency, resolution, extended frequency response and wide, consistent imaging demanded by the international audio elite.
http://pmc-speakers.com/sites/default/files/attachments/QB1-A%20brochure%20web.pdf
JBL held demos throughout the show in the 250-seat Clive Davis Theater at the nearby Grammy Museum—introducing another speaker line, the 7 Series, aimed primarily at the post/broadcast market. This comes on the heels of the M2 Master Reference Monitor and the 3 Series, all, like the new 705i and 708i, incorporating the new driver and Image Control Waveguide. The 5-inchers filled the theater—not kidding—with amazing low-end reproduction and detailed highs. External power.http://www.jblpro.com/www/products/recording-broadcast/7-series
The TransAudio Group had the new ATC P1Pro and P2Pro Amps, featuring MOSFET Class-A/B dual mono design. At 150W/channel into 8 ohms and 300W/channel into 8 ohms respectively, these fan-less, rack-mountable power amplifiers incorporate the same gain reduction and loudspeaker protection circuits that are used in the ATC active monitors.
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