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Broadening The Vision
The lid was off the box, with users from other mission-critical markets making it clear they wanted the same capabilities in their venues. The most significant project proved to be Anaheim Stadium, where EAW designs were tailored to provide dynamic full-range audio throughout a huge venue, enhancing the overall entertainment experience for tens of thousands of patrons on a daily basis.

The project also brought another strength to the fore: fast and flexible custom build capabilities and the competency to meet the time and physical demands of such a large project. It led to the development of application-specific product lines especially for permanent installation purposes while also serving to highlight the company's commitment to customers.

EAW has always maintained close relationships with its users and, most importantly, listens to them, often taking design suggestions directly from the field. The result has been a broad line of products built expressly to serve the needs of audio professionals, with the Avalon Series of nightclub systems a prime example of merging specific market needs and user input into the development of products exceeding customer expectations.

Strong Alliances
Expanding its total system approach, EAW joined forces with rapidly ascendant LOUD Technologies in a cooperative development effort among sister companies has already proven fruitful. Recent highlights include taking the industry-standard Smaart tuning and analysis software platform to new heights of unparalleled capability, development of DSP techniques for array optimization and beam steering, the launch and rapid growth of an entire family of EAW Commercial audio systems, the perfect marriage of processing, power and transducers found in revolutionary Gunness Focusing technology and the coming UMX.96 digital live console.

Despite fast-paced growth, constant change and the ever-escalating demands of the modern world, EAW's approach remains grounded in bedrock principles: consider the system as a whole, seek invaluable user input and then utilize all viable resources to create technology suited equally to both science and art.