ADI endorses Linea Research
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ADI director of technical services Ian Ruben-Schnirman discovered Linea Research amplifiers at the InfoComm trade show. “One of the people at [manufacturers rep firm] Cardone, Solomon & Associates told us about these new amps and processor products,” recounts Ruben-Schnirman. “We saw the Linea products on the show floor, decided we had to get some, and placed an order right there for two 48M10 amplifiers and two ASC48 processors.”
With eight channels of Class D amplification in a mere 2U of rack space, Linea Research’s 48M10 made an immediate impression on Ruben-Schnirman. “It has been a big thing for us that the amp sounds so excellent,” he states. “When we first got them, I did a test between the 48M10 and every other amplifier we owned that didn’t have built-in processing. There was only one other amp I thought sounded as good, and it was an old, two-channel amp that weighed 60 pounds. The 48M10 is an eight-channel amp that weighs half that, yet still draws the same amount of power.”
ADI has gone on to acquire a total of six of 48M10 amplifiers and 22 Linea Research ASC48 Advanced System Controllers.
“We tend to use the processors as speaker crossovers more than anything else,” explains Ruben-Schnirman. “We have all of our pre-sets built into them, so we don’t have to load different pre-sets for each show at the shop anymore. What’s fantastic is that you can load 50 pre-sets in an ASC48 and then access them from the front panel. If we have an issue, we can go in using the front panel and change settings without a computer.”
To accommodate ADI’s increasing use of Dante networking, all of their ASC48 processors have been fitted with optional Dante cards.
(Jim Evans)
