Vue Audiotechnik Announces Dante Support for all DSP-Based Products at InfoComm 2015

Vue Audiotechnik unveils new Dante support for its digital DSP-enabled systems at InfoComm 2015 June 17 - 19, in booth 573 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. Planned for both the h-Class family of Ultra-High Definition Speaker Systems and V Series DSP/Amplifier Systems Engines, the update, set to officially ship in September, will be incorporated within all future products, and upgrades will be available for owners of existing systems.

Recognizing from the start that audio networking is essential to the future of sound systems, the team at Vue Audiotechnik included Ethernet in both product lines to accommodate control, with the expectation that future expansion would include Dante audio networking. With the recent unveiling of the Dante Ultimo chip, a cost-effective but feature-rich Dante solution for low channel-count applications, the company says all Vue DSP systems can now include the functionality at a competitive price point. Like every Dante product, the Ultimo allows the Vue h-class and V Series systems to operate in any Dante environment, with routing of audio streams for each individual Dante-enabled product.

"We'd been waiting for a cost-effective solution for audio-over-Ethernet, and Dante has clearly become the industry standard for audio networking," says Ken Berger, CEO of Vue Audiotechnik. "The Dante Ultimo chipset allows us to include full network functionality at a reasonable cost for our customers. Now that it's here, we're updating our DSP products to include the technology."

"We are pleased to be working with Vue Audiotechnik who, with their new line of Dante enabled products, is driving innovation to facilitate AV/IT convergence," adds Lee Ellison, CEO of Audinate. "Distributing audio-over-IP not only improves audio quality, but enhances the flexibility of the sound system."

Released earlier this year, the Dante Ultimo chip is the perfect solution for speaker products, which require only a single or pair of input streams. Providing the full Dante input capabilities, the Ultimo allows Vue to be a complete Dante network client, enabling the company's products to go into environments where there is already Dante infrastructure in place, such as theme parks and stadiums.

"We look forward to designing systems with our partners that can take advantage of the full capabilities of a networked environment" Berger adds. "We designed these products as a direct response to requests from customers on large-scale projects who were looking for an audio-over-Ethernet solution. So, it was something we always intended to do. Now that it's possible, we're rolling it out. As far as we know, the h-Class is the first of any speaker in its class to have Dante on-board as standard."

The Dante upgraded h-Class, which includes the h-Class full range and subwoofer systems, will begin shipping in September at no additional cost. Upgrade solutions for existing h-Class systems will also be available at that time. The V Series V4 and V6 with on-board Dante capabilities will follow suit by the end of 2015.