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1/9/2003

Audio Design Associates Present A Radically New Electronics Concept for High-End Home Theatre

Audio Design Associates, Inc. (ADA) has announced it will be unveiling a drastically new concept for home theater preamplification at this year's CEDIA Expo in Indianpolis. Based on a design principle that intends to combine ultimate performance with ultimate flexibility, Cinema X will forever change the way high-end home theater electronics are connected as a system.

When it comes to high-end cutting-edge home theater electronics, ADA helped write the book. Among the first home theater manufacturers to utilize Dolby Pro Logic decoding in 1989, ADA was also among the first manufacturers to embrace THX design specifications in 1992. In 1994, ADA won best of show when it introduced the Olympus III, the world's first tube surround sound decoder. ADA was the first manufacturer to begin shipping both a Dolby Digital (at the time Dolby AC-3) preamplifier and AC-3 RF Demodulator in 1996. Later that same year, ADA was the again the first manufacturer to deliver DTS decoding. In 1999, ADA introduced the first Dolby EX add-on decoder for its Cinema series preamplifiers (which were already 5.1). In 2000, ADA introduced the most expensive home theater preamplifier, the Cinema Renaissance ($75,000) which incorporated a tube output stage first introduced in the Olympus III in 1994. In 2001, ADA again was among the first round of manufacturers to include THX Ultra2, Dolby Pro Logic II, and DTS ES, into their second generation Cinema preamplifiers, the Cinema Reference Mach II and Cinema Rhapsody Mach II. This long list of industry firsts clearly shows that ADA's engineering team lives on the cutting-edge of home theater electronics.

Albert G. Langella, ADA's President and Chief Design Engineer notes, "ADA thrives on inventing and creating the most advanced technologies for home theater and whole-house audio/video. The introduction of Cinema X brings on a completely new era in home theater design. We have pulled out all of the stops with radically new concept."

Cinema X to be precise, is designed for the more elaborate home theaters in which budget is usually not an issue. The system involves a series of components that all center around the Cinema X processor/preamplifier. The Cinema X features connectivity for host of standard and completely new technologies including 1394, USB, DVI, and AES/EBU. "From an future-proof standpoint, we feel that Cinema X goes beyond state-of-the-art" states Richard D. Stoerger, Vice President & C.O.O. "It combines the most realistic surround decoding, superior output staging, and remote interconnectivity to provide the designer/installer of the ultimate home theater with a completely new tool."

In addition to the main processor/preamplifier, the Cinema X, the system includes the X-Terminal, an expandable and customizable termination block for sources to the system. The X-Terminal can be located at extreme distances from the Cinema X. The two interconnect using ADA's new "Digital Link" which requires only two standard Cat. 5 cables. As such, components that feed the primary theater need not sit directly next to the preamplifier/processor. For the output stage, the system can include the OTS-X Output Tube Stage. Again, using ADA's all new Digital Link, two Cat. 5 cables, which run from the Cinema X to the OTS-X, the designer/installer can elect to situate the home theater power amplifiers at an extreme distance from the processor/preamplifier. The OTS-X features D/A conversion and an eight-channel tube output stage. For theaters running multiple channels (beyond just 7.1 channels), several OTS-X's can be used.

In addition to the OTS-X, ADA plans to introduce home theater power amplifiers that feature ADA's unique Digital-Link connectivity. These amplifiers will interconnect using two standard Cat. 5 cables and can also be used in conjunction with the OTS-X.

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