PLASA 2011: Outline adds to the GTO Family

After viewings in Germany, the US, and Italy, Outline's large-format line-source system will be on show in London, on stand G35 at the PLASA Show, September 11-14, Earls Court, London.

The result of a two-year cooperation between Outline and some of the world's best-known rental companies, the first GTO - Grand Touring Outline systems that left the factory last summer were, the company says, already sold and earmarked for immediate use on high-profile concerts and tours, initially in the US and Europe. Those systems were not prototypes, but already standard production models, the same as those officially presented in Frankfurt just four months earlier.

At PLASA 2011 the Italian company is unveiling its GTO-DF (down-fill, which is mechanically compatible with GTO and conceived and is designed to provide audio coverage for the first rows of the audience in every type of event where GTO systems are used.

The company says the GTO-DF is eye-catching, with its aperture (120 degrees) gradually flaring out downwards. As opposed to the GTO, which has ten loudspeakers, this element uses six: four 8" mid-woofers and two 3" compression drivers.

Also at PLASA, Outline will present an app for Apple iPads -- written entirely in its in-house labs -- which allows one to control the self-powered loudspeaker enclosures manufactured by the company

The company says this is a native iOS APP, not a mere web link. The app gives all-round control of Mini-COM.P.A.S.S. systems -- including the complex group management that a line-array with adjustable horizontal dispersion implies - and the iSM series of stage monitors.

By means of an app and relative tablet computer, Outline says it offers end users real all-round man/loudspeaker enclosure interaction.