Patent Review: Desktop Audio Monitor System and Method

In this patents review, James Croft looks at one of the most interesting concepts for a “Desktop Audio Monitor System and Method.” US Patent 9036837, was granted in 2015 to James Tuomy (Framingham, MA), Barry Michael Kosherick (Hudson, MA), Laurie Wilk (Framingham, MA), and J. Richard Aylward (Ashland, MA). The concept was actually introduced to the market a year earlier, and made its big debut at the NAMM Show 2015, by Phasx Technologies. This article was originally published in Voice Coil, August 2015.

Users of Genelec’s Smart Active Monitoring range can now take advantage of the newly updated 3.2.0 version of the Genelec Loudspeaker Management (GLM) software, which offers compatibility with a wider range of Genelec models – plus adding a host of other improvements. The software update provides support for the latest The Ones point source monitors – namely the 8351B and 8361 coaxial three-ways and the complementary W371 Adaptive Woofer System – which work seamlessly together via GLM to create a full-range monitoring system.

Phasx Technologies introduced its new digital audio production systems PX 300 and PX 600 at the Summer NAMM in Nashville. Eight years in development, Phasx promises a brand new digital audio monitoring concept for mastering and production, combining a dedicated hardware DSP monitoring controller with monitors designed to fit comfortably on the desktop around computer workstations.