Outdoor Cloing Specialist Icebreaker Achieves Indoor Meeting Breakrough with Symetrix DSP

Outdoor Clothing Specialist Icebreaker Achieves Indoor Meeting Breakthrough with Symetrix DSP 17 March 2015

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Digital processing specialist Symetrix is an increasingly familiar presence in high-tech conference facilities and meeting spaces, and a new installation in New Zealand exemplifies its strengths in this arena. Uniting multiple spaces with flexible processing power and support for Audinate's Dante media networking technology, Symetrix SymNet Radius AEC open architecture Dante-scalable DSPs are now proving their worth at the Auckland offices of outdoor clothing specialist Icebreaker.

Australian-owned and operated distributor PAVT (Production Audio Video Technology) worked closely on the project with local integrator Videopro NZ, who installed the new technology. A veteran of conference room projects, PAVT's Matt Vance recalls the specific brief issued for the Icebreaker fit-out.

The objective was to provide a cost-effective, professional audio solution to serve a number of small conference/meeting rooms that would run the Microsoft Lync unified communications platform, or other PC-based codecs such as Skype, says Vance. Therefore, the audio solution had to provide support for the AEC (Acoustic Echo Cancellation) algorithm, connections to professional quality microphones, and a reliable interface to PCs in each room.

With a client interested in avoiding the expense of a dedicated DSP in each room, the search was on for a suitably powerful centralised solution one that was soon satisfied by the selection of a pair of SymNet Radius AECs to handle microphone management, mixing and routing.

Coupled with Attero Tech unDIO2x2 end-points connected via Dante, the Symetrix DSPs allowed Vance and team to design a system with centralised DSP located in an IT rack-room that could have its resources internally divided between rooms, while retaining high quality, low latency digital audio links to the microphones, speakers and PCs in each room.

Attero Tech is one of a growing band of manufacturers to have partnered with Symetrix over the last 18 months to enable some of their Dante-enabled products to be completely configured through the Symetrix SymNet Composer software. Settings affecting I/O levels, routing and more can all be quickly and easily defined using the acclaimed Symetrix software package.

Audix ADX40 hanging overhead microphones and Ecler speakers complete the primary specification of the Icebreaker project. Apart from its flexibility, the completed installation also highlights the onward march of Dante-based networking one that Symetrix has been eager to support from early on with a comprehensive range of compliant DSP products.

This project completely relies on Dante networking for audio transport; there are almost no analogue audio connections at all, says Vance. Backed by Symetrix DSP expertise, the result is a very robust and reliable set-up that will serve Icebreaker well for years to come.

ABOUT SYMETRIX:

With a current and broadly-based product portfolio that encompasses both open architecture (Edge, Radius 12x8 EX, Radius AEC) and fixed architecture (Jupiter, Zone Mix 761) solutions, Seattle, USA-based Symetrix is the global leader in digital audio signal processing. From a founding base in the studio and MI communities, Symetrix has emerged to take a defining role in commercial audio, its products now a default choice for large-scale installations in performance venues, sports arenas, educational establishments and many more. Benefiting from a worldwide distribution network that has seen its products specified in over 100 countries, Symetrix nonetheless continues to spearhead the entire design and build process from its Seattle HQ. The manufacturer is now enhancing its readiness for a new era of AV networking through its licensing partnership with Audinate, whose world-leading Dante media networking solution is fully integrated into the SymNet DSP platform.

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