The
Acoustic Research Brand (AR) has been synonymous with quality sound
for over 50 Years and their products are as pertinent today as they
were when the company first made listening to music a pleasure. Today,
there are literally thousands of stations and events available on the
Internet. It has become the biggest entertainment vehicle available.
On it you can catch the Italian Opera live from Rome or the Australian
Soccer team's next big match...all through - and attached - to your
PC....until NOW. Acoustic Research introduces the next generation of
audio entertainment - Infinite Radio...Easily access thousands of
global music & talk stations and then personalize that content to your
individual taste. Infinite choices...infinite
stations...infinitely simple.
What is the Infinite Radio™?
The Acoustic Research Infinite™ Radio is the company's
new line of "connected" internet radios that bring you the richest
listening experience available on the market by combining Slacker's
Personal Radio service with every global Internet Radio audio stream -
FOR FREE! Customization is the key to personalization and the Infinite
Radio delivers interactive intelligence with the touch of a button. In
addition, you can listen to AM/FM, On-demand weather forecasts,
internal recordings, external mp3 players and even USB flash drives.
We also make it incredibly easy to add and manage your favorite
stations with our Personal Portal - use it to access thousands of
global music & talk stations from around the world and then
personalize that content to your individual taste.
No question that the 'sound' that AR delivers today is on a par with
the very first, high quality AR products. Founded in 1952 by audio
pioneer, writer, inventor researcher and audio-electronics teacher
Edgar Villchur and his student Henry Kloss, the company soon grew into
a major force in the sound industry. In 1956, the company was granted
its first patent for the air suspension woofer that solved the problem
that affected all loudspeakers at that time....bass distortion. That
development led the way to a host of other scientific and engineering
breakthroughs that highlight the brand even today.
By the late '50's AR had set the acoustic world on fire again with the
introduction of the first speakers to include "dome" high frequency
tweeters; the first long throw woofer that produces more bass by
pushing more air...a standard in the industry today. So confident were
we in our quality that in 1956 AR introduced the first 5-Year Warranty
that is the standard today.
For more than 10 years
after those introductions, the AR speaker line dominated the industry
thanks to their life-like reproduction of sound. Other technological
breakthroughs highlighted the 70's and 80's, like the first high
current amplifier, the first belt drive turntable and the first
multi-driver vertical loudspeaker another standard configuration that
still holds today. In September of 1993, as testimony to the
breakthroughs of speaker technology, and AR 3 speaker was placed on
permanent display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.
The Acoustic Research brand continued to make technology
breakthroughs in the speaker industry with a variety of industry
firsts that included the first environmental controls that allowed a
speaker to be placed in different room areas, the Acoustic Blanket
that minimized diffraction and interference in speaker baffles and the
first speaker line designed to compliment home theater and the digital
technologies of the 90's.
Wireless Speakers
Wireless speakers have been around for a long time,
however their performance has left a bit to be desired ...until now.
The new Acoustic Research wireless home theatre conversion kits
provide reliable high quality audio in the presence of many other
types of emissions such as WiFi, Bluetooth and Zigbee products,
cordless telephones, microwave ovens, and other common household and
retail store interferers.
High quality, robust,
transmission requires a large degree of message redundancy. Error
correction, retransmission, and data buffering causes delay (latency),
which means that transmission has to occur at very high bit rates to
minimize delay. The new AR speaker system transmits four audio
channels at 11 Mb/S (11 million bits per second). The system uses a
"sniff before transmit" algorithm to sense and avoid interferers,
since the system is also frequency agile.
Normally, only stereo systems that have a single receiver tethered to
two speakers can have the requisite QOS channel, but the tethered
speakers severely restrict the placement of the speakers, defeating
the purpose of wireless. The very high speed transmission of the new
AR systems makes it possible to meet the conflicting demands of audio
quality, interference immunity and low latency, seamlessly to the
user.
No other wireless home theatre communication
platform comes close to meeting the complete suite of home theatre
performance requirements. And they are easy to use and set-up....and
they give the consumer complete flexibility to place his speakers
wherever he wishes and to configure his set-up without wiring
limitations.
On to the future....
The AR brand commitment to quality an innovation will not
stop with the development the first wireless to deliver true
uncompressed CD quality sound that is impervious to interference from
microwave ovens and other household appliances, AR also just launched
the first in a line of intuitive, high quality and superior design
home audio electronics to compliment the company's already renowned
reputation for inventing quality sound...
