Peavey Commercial Audio Celebrates Three Decades of MediaMatrix Distributed Audio Innovation

First launched at the 1993 AES Show in New York, MediaMatrix is now celebrating its 30th year of innovation in audio solutions. With innumerable installations worldwide, Peavey Commercial Audio's MediaMatrix has left a mark on the professional audio industry and its technological advancements. As the world’s first digitally configured and controlled distributed audio system, MediaMatrix has grown to accommodate the world’s most demanding commercial audio needs.

NAD Electronics announced an all-new advanced amplifier targeted at high performance distributed audio systems. The CI 8-120 DSP uses a customized version of the proven Hypex UcD output stage and is capable of delivering massive power with extremely low distortion and noise in the audible range. Featured at CEDIA 2019, the networked controlled CI 8-120 DSP ($2999 U.S. MSRP) delivers 8 x 120 watts per channel with unique features and will be available in November.

As a leading provider of digital signal processing solutions, Waves has been showing the way for the professional audio industry to fully leverage the possibilities of audio networking and distributed audio processing, combining the best of software and hardware to create a fully integrated Waves SoundGrid solution. Now the company introduced three new elements to that architecture with the new SoundGrid Server One-C and Extreme Server-C DSP processing units, and the Waves Axis One, a standardized computer, custom-designed and optimized to run Waves audio applications.