Sound Devices 702 and 702T

Sound Devices unveiled two additions to the 7-series line of portable digital recorders, the 702 and 702T. These two-channel recorders share the field-tested chassis design and superb sound quality of the successful 722 and 744T digital recorders. The 702 and 702T (with time code) are Compact Flash-only recorders.
Jim Koomar, Director of Worldwide sales for Sound Devices stated that their target customers are those need truly professional tools with peerless audio performance. As Compact Flash card capacities go up and their cost goes down, customers working on commercial and ENG productions can now fit a full day’s sound files on a single, cost-effective solid-state Compact Flash card. These new recorders effectively close the history books on tape-based recorders for production sound.

Lucid 88192 Audio Converter

Lucid 88192 is an audio converter supports eight channels of analog-to-digital, and eight channels of digital-to-analog conversion at sampling frequencies up to 192kHz.
The multi-format unit offers simultaneous connectivity for analog, high-speed AES/EBU digital audio, and SMUX2 ADAT Optical digital audio. An option port is included for future adoption of additional formats.
Touting excellent audio performance and full connectivity, the 88192 also includes some fairly sophisticated routing capabilities. Through an intuitive front-panel menu scheme, inputs are easily routed to single or multiple outputs in both the digital and analog realms. Information, including active metering, is returned to the user in an easy to read vacuum fluorescent display. The deceptively simple front panel includes a push-button encoder and single button to provide all the tools for navigating menus and changing settings in the unit.
Superb audio performance is the real bottom line for the 88192. The unit has excellent dynamic range, distortion, and frequency response specifications. It includes the famous Lucid low jitter clock technology, and helps users achieve better recorded results by incorporating the Soft Clip feature on the analog inputs.
Supporting sampling rates up to 192kHz, the converter is expected to find its way into a number of critical production and recording situations such as studios, surround sound production, broadcast production, and mobile recording units

EM Acoustic Speakers

EM Acoustic is a British manufacturer dedicated to producing high quality performance loudspeakers. Their product range has been created to allow maximum flexibility with the minimum of product variations, and consequently a wide variety of professional audio applications can be met with products from EM Acoustics.
The design ethos of EM is not one of ‘fix in the mix’ – instead they have the passion, belief and understanding that proprietary control is an unnecessary and expensive requirement that should be avoided. From this viewpoint and understanding come the Uniphase 1 and Uniphase 2 passive crossovers. The Uniphase crossover employs a unique topology that provides a seamless transition between two or more drive units, thus reducing the time-smearing often encountered with passive designs.
EM Acoustics products are manufactured entirely at their Surrey headquarters, where technology is combined with hand craftwork to produce a stunning end product. All products are subjected to exhaustive test procedures to ensure they reach the standards of quality, and in turn to ensure EM Acoustics products meet all stated specifications. By doing this, EM Acoustic products will fulfill given requirement time after time.