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| Martijn van Overveld and Michel van Loon accepted the InAVation Award on behalf of Bosch Security Systems |
Bosch Security Systems' new Vari-directional Array has won the 2011 InAVation award for the most innovative commercial loudspeaker.
The prestigious awards are presented annually to global manufacturers introducing commercially available products into the EMEA market. The winners for this year's awards were announced at the InAVation Awards Ceremony held at the Amsterdam RAI Diamond Lounge. The award for the most innovative commercial loudspeaker was presented by Richard Lawn from Pro Audio Middle East. Accepting the award on behalf of Bosch were Michel van Loon, Acoustic Application Specialist for Public Address EMEA, and Martijn van Overveld, Product Marketing Manager for Public Address EMEA.
The Vari-directional Array was developed by Bosch to produce unmatched sound quality and superior speech intelligibility in difficult acoustical environments such as railways stations, airports and places of worship. A key feature of the array is its digitally-controlled directivity which ensures that sound is sent only where it's needed to produce optimal sound distribution and audience coverage without wasting output energy on ceilings or empty space above the audience.
Active line arrays like Bosch's Vari-directional array offer many advantages such as large coverage and less installation effort. A drawback of many of today's active line array designs, however, is that the generation of the perfect sound beam often needs to be done by trial and error. Bosch has addressed this issue with proprietary configuration software that uses a database of pre-programmed room settings to fit any acoustical environment. The installer just enters the room dimensions and requirements and the software does the rest. The result is a quickly installed loudspeaker system with consistent, high-quality sound reproduction.
With their sleek design the arrays fit unobtrusively into any surroundings. They are also fully EVAC compliant which makes them the perfect fit for voice-alarm applications.
