AudioControl Debuts Iasys HT: Unique Acoustic Measurement Tool

AudioControl introduces a new version of its acclaimed Iasys portable acoustic analyzer, the Iasys HT, re-engineered for the needs of multichannel home-theatre systems. The Iasys HT uses the same spectrum-analyzer and signal-generator technologies as its predecessor, for which AudioControl was awarded a US patent covering some 70 individual claims (#5,555,311). But in contrast to the original, professional audio-inspired Iasys, the Iasys HT is extensively adapted and enhanced for optimizing 5.1- and 7.1-channel surround-sound systems.Using its exceptionally precise electro-acoustical analysis, with ""fuzzy logic"" control and simple, intuitive displays, the Iasys HT is easy to learn in less than an hour, yet its powerful functionality will meet the needs for ultimate performance of the elite home-audio system designer/installer. This makes the Iasys HT an ideal set-up aid for AudioControlís unique Diva multichannel digital audio processor, the most powerful audio-enhancement tool ever produced for multichannel sound systems.AudioControl President Tom Walker says, ""Our original Iasys has proven invaluable to countless high-end custom home audio and professional audio installers. The HT is an outgrowth of our Iasys experience, but its significantly extended multichannel capabilities make it an even more powerful and useful tool for home theater. It puts unequaled power and understanding into the hands of system designers working with any high-performance setup; combined with the uniquely powerful Diva, the Iasys HT yields the most sophisticated system-tuning package ever produced.""AudioControlís Iasys HT package combines a high-precision digital real-time spectrum analyzer with pink-noise and sine-wave, and single-sweep wave generators, supplied with a calibrated, Iasys-optimized measurement microphone. Its gas-plasma display produces 64x128 resolution of spectrum-analysis data, and also reads out the simple, intuitive prompts generated by the Iasys HTís operating system. Most importantly of all, the Iasys HT provides the operator not just with raw data, but with real answers. Although its internal functions perform highly sophisticated statistical analyses of amplitude, frequency, and time responses, the Iasys HTís output to the user can be as simple as specific, useful and easy to implement recommendations for bandpass levels, channel delays and equalizations, optimal speaker positioning, system equalization and more. And all of these results are presented relative to real-world audio components: speakers, amplifiers, crossover, limiters, delays, and equalizers. (Pure data can be recalled as well.) And because the Iasys HT is a completely self-contained design with its own operating system and display, no personal computer is needed. The Iasys HT can print graphs and data to any parallel printer.Despite this considerable power and flexibility, the portable Iasys HT is a compact 9-pound package no larger or bulkier than a lunch box. A 3U EIA-standard rackmount adapter is also available.The Iasys HT is available at the manufacturerís suggested retail price of $3,995 (AudioControl also has an Iasys HT leasing program).AudioControl produces the Iasys HT at its Washington-state facility where they have been designing and manufacturing the highest-quality award-winning home and car audio components since 1977. For more information on the full line of AudioControl components, visit the Web site at www.audiocontrol.com.