All operations are go. Rogue protocol ends at zero hour. Maintain deniability. Prepare for declassification.

The agent organizes assets and reports to control. Control provides operational parameters. On command, the agent carries out the operation. During the operation, continuous communication ensures that control achieves maximum effect from the agent.

Anya™ is the agent.

What is Anya?

Anya is not a product, not a thing. Or if she is a thing, she is many things.

The module is not Anya, but Anya is the module. Resolution™ software is not Anya, but Anya is Resolution.

Anya is neither the module nor Resolution, but she is both the module and Resolution. Anya is the intelligence that connects these two things and makes them something new.

As we said before, it’s all very Zen.

Anya Knows Who She Is

As soon as you give her power, Anya organizes the modules in all the arrays and presents them to Resolution software as complex but unified entities. Through Anya, each module, each transducer understands its location in relation to all other modules or transducers.

Except by user choice, Resolution only addresses Anya arrays as unified entities. Anya identifies and addresses individual modules. It is, amongst other things, her job.

Anya Can Self-Assess

Each module carries a set of self-diagnostic tools, both electronic and acoustic….

Infiltrators discovered preparatory materials. Redaction has occurred, but the exposure is serious.

It’s true. Her name is Anya™, and you are about to fall in love.

Falling in Love

Everything about Anya is designed to make you fall in love with her. She is everything you could possibly want. Smart, beautiful, tough, a little bit dangerous but loyal and a hard worker.

When you work with her – like when you fall in love – you will experience a strange familiarity; you’ll immediately know what to do. But it will also be new and amazing. Like falling in love.

You will fall in love with Anya because she returns your affection by making your world a lot simpler.

What is “Simple”?

On the back of an Anya module, there’s a touch pad. No lights are on. One of the lights is marked “Test”, and it is connected to a button that says “Press”.

1. What do you do?
2. What are the two most likely outcomes?

(3 minutes. Show all work.)

Every single aspect is like this – spectacularly simple and familiar. Anya is amazing, but she’s not baffling. She’s mostly a normal PA, except that she’s not. Her normal components, though, are completely normal.

Normal connectors. Normal transducers and horns, or at least “EAW…

Rogue Protocol is now in effect. Encrypt all messages. Operational directives will come from a contact known to you but not from within your own cell. Use red cipher.

It’s no secret that EAW has a secret or that EAW has had a secret for quite a long time. I hate to disappoint you, but it’s still a secret.

EAW Admits to Product Development

For the better part of three years, EAW Engineering has been working on a very “EAW” kind of idea. And by “EAW”, I mean crazy. It’s the kind of idea that sensible companies discard immediately as an impractical R&D nightmare.

But if you’re reading this blog post, you already know that impractical R&D nightmares are the very life blood of EAW. EAW President Jeff Rocha is himself an engineer, as is LOUD Technologies CEO Mark Graham. How could we _not_ do it, right?

Thanks to fantastic support from Mark and the new team at LOUD, we have been able to complete this impractical R&D nightmare to stunning result.

So, yes, it’s all true. We have made a very interesting machine.

Further Confession: It Makes Sound

This one you probably guessed already from Dave Rat’s post on…

Yesterday, we posted to Facebook about a story we saw announcing that DJ Magazine has moved their Winter Music Conference pool parties to the Delano Hotel. Again for 2013, EAW will supply the Delano with a world-class Avalon by EAW™ sound system. (Photo: Benny Benassi at WMC 2012)

Unlike last year, we will have four SUB.two hybrid subwoofer systems to power the dance floor. And, unlike last year, the Delano will run programming for the entire WMC event. Keep any eye on DJ Magazine for more info on their events.

South by Southwest

Before we can get to the Delano, however, we will spend the better part of two weeks in Austin, TX, where we’ll bring a KF740 systems and a separate Avalon by EAW system to The Belmont for their South by Southwest events.

The Belmont is a “buy-out” venue, meaning that client organizations book the venue for one or more days to produce their concerts. One client that has already announced their line up is The Warner Sound. They will be showcasing acts…

Based on the traffic we’re seeing, many of you are already digging into our new website. After nearly a year of development, we launched without fanfare at around midnight eastern USA time on Friday, February 8^th, just as the blizzard was approaching.

The key benefit for our long-suffering web community is that the platform on which we’ve built the site allows core EAW staff to continuously and instantly update any page at any time from any Internet –connected computer. Thus, users will notice that product pages reflect the most recent revisions, such as the QX “i” revisions.

Users should expect frequent and continuous changes and additions to the content. Indeed, important parts of the Application, Support and Technology sections remain in development. Check back frequently to see what’s new. We will announce important additions here on the Front Row blog.

Other Changes

As we transitioned to the new site, we deactivated both the blog and the discussion forums. As you can see, the blog returned after about a week. The discussion forums, however, will remain deactivated until we complete work on the _NEW_ discussion forums.

Now that we have launched the main site, our web…

KF740s to Power Paramount Theater’s HeadlineActs – Avalon by EAW™ to Destroy Neumos

We’ve just sent out a press release announcing that Eastern Acoustic Works® (EAW™) will deliver sound reinforcement solutions for two key venues at the Decibel Festival™, an annual electronic music event held in Seattle, Washington, USA. EAW’s KF740 line array system will serve as front-of-house PA for Decibel’s headline events in the acoustically notorious Paramount Theater. EAW will partner with Las Vegas-based Hall Audio Systems, the first-ever EAW Red Certified™ Company. Separately, EAW’s Application Support Group will install a temporary Avalon by EAW™ dance club system in Neumos, where VIP parties will proceed five nights of performance sets and after parties. The release was sent out to EAW’s current editorial media list. If you are a journalist or editor and would like to receive our press releases, please email EAW PR.

We’ve just sent out a press release on a top-level installation by Acoustic Dimensions and Ford A/V at the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (SWBTS) in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. SWBTS is a highly-regarded training institution, and they’ve recently built a new chapel that includes a high-powered audio/video component to give students real world experience in contemporary service. While natural speech reproduction came foremost as always in house of worship work, the QX-based design is more than substantial enough for modern, faith-based music.

Thanks to Casey Sherred at Acoustic Dimensions and Jon Pidgeon at Ford A/V for their help with this press release.

The release was sent to EAW’s current editorial media list. If you are a journalist or editor and would like to receive our press releases, please email EAW Marketing.

The editors of and contributors to Pro Audio Review have nominated the QX Series for their PAR Excellence Award in the Live Sound Hardware/Loudspeaker Systems category.

As PAR puts it, they base their nominations:

…are based on the “I want to own this” principle; gear selected should have a proven field track record, performed well via PAR’s “real world” review process, or — in the case of recently released products — have shown particular promise through demonstrations, beta-testing and among early adopters.

After the editors select the nominees, readers of PAR and Pro Sound News vote to determing the winners. Voting continues through November 16, 2012.

VOTE QX! 

We all know that acoustical consultants don’t often lavish praise on manufacturers, but our work to build and deliver over 600 loudspeakers for an NFL stadium project - many of them custom-engineered – on an extremely tight timeline inspired the following from Wrightson, Johnson, Haddon, Williams (WJHW) consultant Mark Graham:

“When we say EAW delivered, we mean that literally. We (WJHW) didn’t even come on board until last October, when the design process began, so the window for manufacturing, customization and delivery was even tighter.”

The EAW factory in Whitinsville produced almost all of the loudspeakers in the month of May, setting a new, all-time high for total number of WP weatherproof enclosures produced in a month.

The photo shows one of the custom-engineered systems, the TT212 dual 12-in steering LF system mounted just behind a partially visible QX Series system at far left. The TT212, which uses a variant of the MK2300 Series enclosure, creates an end-fired array to project LF energy into the listening area and away from the wall.

Download the press release from the EAW Resource website. (Note: an earlier version of the press release…

Since the spring, hip hop artist Mac Miller has been wowwing audiences with a KF740 line array system provided by Showtime Sound. We recently caught up with the production house to pull together a press release. Showtime President Scott Tydings says:

“The system was perfect right out of the box. We knew what would work well for Mac’s tour, and the EAW equipment was the perfect choice for it. The bottom end was exceptionally good. It just sounded great, no matter what size or type venue we were working in, from 1,500 people to 6,500. It was such a flexible PA that sounded great in any configuration, which is exactly what you want when you have an artist who is on his way up and the venues will be varied from night to night.”

In addition to the KF740 main arrays, the full system includes KF750/KF755 outfills, SB1000z subwoofers and JF80 stage lip fills. It’s all powered by Lab.gruppen PLM Series amps with onboard…