Introducing SAM, Lars-Olof Janflod, marketing and PR director at Genelec says, "Our launch of SAM is set to chart the beginning of a new era in the audio monitoring industry. This new era has come about thanks to digital technology and rising user expectations of what can be achieved with audio monitoring solutions. In line with this, system designers have also demonstrated that digital audio monitoring solutions have significant capabilities beyond what is possible with traditional analogue audio monitor designs.
"Smart Active Monitoring captures this technology leap from the analogue to the digital world, with the aim of increasing the quality and listening experience of the customer while enabling the seamless integration of monitor loudspeakers and subwoofers into a well calibrated and correctly aligned reproduction system."
The SAM system allows monitors to be controlled with digital networking to enable the building of highly flexible computer controlled systems of monitors. The acoustical features of SAM can be optimised with software calibration tools to suit individual working styles and systems of monitors. One of these tools is AutoCalTM - Genelec's acoustic calibration solution that is supplied alsongside the Genelec Loudspeaker Management software package, GLM.
Using GLM software and AutoCalTM a monitor can be turned into the reference it needs to be in today's demanding and complex tasks engineers are faced with. This improves performance and helps the user to achieve not only a flat frequency response at listening position but also handles phase alignment in between monitors and subwoofer and not least time of flight compensation, the latter of high importance when retro-fitting systems in existing rooms where equal distance between all monitors and listening position may not be possible to respect.
(Jim Evans)
