Peavey & Crest Audio License Ethersound Technology
CREST
Posted 2006-09-14
Peavey Electronics proudly announces it
has licensed EtherSound networking technology for use in Peavey, MediaMatrix, Architectural
Acoustics and Crest Audio professional audio and communications products. “We have monitored the development and growing acceptance of EtherSound technology, and
we’re impressed by its rapid implementation and evolution,” said Hartley Peavey, Founder and
CEO of Peavey Electronics and CEO of Crest Audio.
“As the networked audio market grows, EtherSound will enable us to continue to expand our scope
and deliver exceptional value to our customers,” he added. “EtherSound’s low latency is especially
important to us, because live sound is a major part of our market. The ability to interoperate with a
wide range of complementary products is important to our customers, and therefore to us.”
MediaMatrix, a division of Peavey Electronics, revolutionized the high-end audio technology
market with its computer-based audio processing and control interfacing systems, and is the core of
more than 4,000 mega audio systems in airports, stadiums, theme parks, government facilities and
more around the world. Architectural Acoustics, another division of Peavey Electronics, brings
reliable power, audio routing, room combining, loudspeakers and more to thousands of conference
centers, churches, shopping malls and other venues.
Crest Audio offers a full range of hardware and software solutions for audio control. With signal
processing, output monitoring, speaker control, amplifier system fault monitoring, real-time control
of amplifier and signal processing settings and virtually unlimited snapshot and automation
capabilities, Crest Audio’s two-way network control solutions provide cost-effective and featurerich
options to installers working at every level of sophistication.
“We are very excited to have Peavey Electronics, a company with an unsurpassed track record of
success in professional audio markets, as a member of the EtherSound family,” said Jimmy
Kawalek, Business Development Manager at EtherSound. “Along with the pro audio industry in
general, we are eager to see how Peavey and Crest Audio will deploy EtherSound networking
technology.”
EtherSound is an elegantly simple and open standard for networking digital audio using off-theshelf
Ethernet components. Fully compliant with IEEE 802.3, EtherSound is a deterministic
network protocol with bi-directional transmission, high audio data capacity at mixed sample rates
and powerful control functions. EtherSound’s latency is stable and easily calculated: the point-topoint
transmission time between an audio input and an audio output in an EtherSound network is
five samples (approx 100 microseconds at 48 kHz), independent of the number of channels
transmitted.
Founded in 1965, Peavey® is one of the world's largest manufacturers of musical instruments and professional sound
equipment. Peavey holds more than 130 patents and produces more than 2,000 products, which are distributed
throughout the United States and to 136 other countries. Peavey and its MediaMatrix®, Architectural Acoustics®,
PVDJ®, Crest Audio® and Trace Elliot® brands and affiliates can be found on concert stages and in more than 4,000
airports, stadiums, theme parks and other venues around the world. To find out more, visit www.peavey.com.
