AirNetix has introduced the AiRocks Pro, a multi-hop repeater system designed to transmit wireless audio to remote powered loudspeakers and amplifier racks.
Developed specifically for the professional sound reinforcement market, AiRocks Pro is especially well suited for delay stack applications in traditionally challenging applications such as concerts, festivals, golf tournaments, parades, air shows, auto races, and any other event that requires professional-quality sound to be distributed to loudspeakers over a wide area throughout all weather conditions.
The company states that the 900 MHz band feature penetrates walls, trees, people and other obstructions that often limit higher frequency devices that operate at 2.4 GHz.
Alex Moran, owner of Spider Ranch Productions in South San Francisco and beta-tester of new AirNetix products, says, “We’ve used the AiRocks Pro system in several of our more challenging venues and it performed flawlessly. The transmit range is well beyond any other product that we have tested, and the rugged aluminum enclosure makes it perfect for the hard knocks on the road. And since any radio can be configured as a transmitter or receiver, we are able to quickly reconfigure our RF link to and from the stage during a live event.”
AiRocks Pro includes features specifically designed for mobile professional audio environments, such as built-in variable 500 ms delay, 158-398 mW of effective transmitting power, range of more than 1,000 feet, XLR line-level audio input and output, a weather resistant aluminum outdoor enclosure.
In addition, an extensive AirNetix Network Management System provides engineers with a large toolbox of real-time monitor and control functions. This includes the ability to monitor the receive signal at each remote unit from a central laptop, as well as control output volume, add audio delay, and even perform spectrum analysis at a remote site.
AiRocks Pro operates in the unlicensed, uncrowded 900 MHz radio band, offering the freedom and flexibility to utilize the system virtually anywhere in the U.S. and Canada without the burden of dealing with licensing or frequency coordination issues.
AirNetix will be demonstrating the AiRocks Pro system at the upcoming 2015 InfoComm show in Orlando (June 17-19) in booth 102.
