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NuVo introduces its New Essentia Whole Home Audio System that offers expanded capability and EnergyStar rating (2/10/2007)

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NuVo Technologies is pleased to unveil its new Essentia Whole Home Audio System rich with features that will excite the senses, plus expand to offer the same NuVoNet capabilities that made the Grand Concerto such a simple to use programming success story. But its killer feature doesn't rest solely there. Essentia E6G will be the FIRST multi-room audio system to boast the EnergyStar logo, for VERY low energy consumption during idle time, which is considered the greatest wasted source of energy in electronics in the home today. If that isn't impressive enough, with all of these added capabilities and Green conscious features, NuVo maintains its reputation of being "finally affordable to the masses" with E6G's price point coming in at $2299. M.S.R.P.

The System's Features

The Control Pad - Essentia's new control pad brings all of the great features of NuVo's Grand Concerto down to size-into a single gang box to be exact. But it also provides many of the same sought-after features that the Grand Concerto enjoys. Its sleek, simple control pad carries many of the same features of the Grand Concerto which include the following:

Polycarbonate Surface

* Surrounding the button and viewing area is optical grade polycarbonate material for durable, fault free operation.
* Polycarbonate is the same material used in optical industry for eyeglass lenses. Unlike standard plastics, it is precision manufactured to be perfectly flat which greatly improves visualization and general pristine look and feel.
* The extremely durable and scratch resistant material also makes the control pad water resistant, which is an added benefit of the strict requirements of it's manufacturing. Its virtually impenetrable construction makes it well suited for covered outdoor areas.
* Rubber membrane under buttons further support water resistance.
* Frosted Plexiglas buttons OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) Display
* Provides bright contrasting light making it readable in a variety of settings, including outdoors in bright sunlight conditions.
* Up to 55,000 hours lifetime under standard use conditions.
* Up to 4 readable character lines that also provide flexibility in size of character height (single, double and triple) that respond to the needs of different menu modes.
* Wide viewing angle. A natural by-product of its high-contrast light active pixels (self-illuminating), the display can be viewed from angles up to 130¡.
* Added feature of display at Essentia pricing makes for supremely high installer selling benefit.
* Low energy consumption of OLED contributes to energy efficient operation-less power consumed than LCD or VFD. Unique Tactile Buttons
* Coplanar, Plexiglass buttons disappear flush to the black polycarbonate surface encased around them. Makes for sleek design, which offers high quality look and feel, but is more affordable to the cost sensitive consumer.
* Flush surface at button boundaries provides for simple cleaning as well as easy button recognition. Additional Keypad Features
* Essentia Control Pads can be used with the Grand Concerto system in tight areas where the single gang format is greatly preferred.
* Ships with same 4 different color trim-plates (white almond, ivory and black).

Main Unit System Details

* 6 Source, 6 Zone System with 40 watts per zone system, also expandable to 12 zones.
* Philips Class D amplification provides cool running, power efficiency in high output operation. This reduces heat output by as much as 100 watts over an equivalent Class AB amplifier.
* State-of-the-art, switching power supply further reduces heat output, thus protecting the system against equipment failure, the primary cause of issues with any system.
* Single Rack height. No other 6-source, 6 zone system available on the market today fits in a single vertical space on a rack. Lightweight unit weighs only 6.5 lbs. This trim-line packaging is made possible by the volumetric efficiency of the new switching power supply design.
* Communicates with all NuVo sources, including all T2 Tuner configurations, NV-M3 Music Server and NuVoDocks for iPod, uses new E6G version of NuVoNet Configurator software. This is accomplished using the latest NuVoNet protocol.
* New Essentia version of Allport(tm) connection hub consolidates all speaker connections into one connection hub. Allport cable and Network cable included.
* Two zones provided with line-level outputs; both fixed and variable. These and trigger inputs allow for flexibility during use with an external amplifier, volume controls and additional speakers.
* Bi-directional and RS-232 control interface allows control from most home automations systems.

EnergyStar Requirements Met

Essentia is the first in our industry segment to achieve the energy consumption requirements of EnergyStar. EnergyStar covers virtually all areas of the home from Office Equipment, to Appliances, to Heating and Cooling, to Lighting. In a report from EnergyStar in July 2003, in our overall category of Home Electronics, there have been some inroads made in many of these areas mostly in TV's and VCR's, which range from 46% to 94% (respectively) rate of adoption of the EnergyStar certification. But, these only represent an opportunity for improvement over standard equivalent products at 24% for TV's and 29% for VCR's. The overall category of Audio, on the other hand, represents a 69% opportunity for improvement, yet only 31% of Audio Manufacturers overall have begun the adoption process. And, NO Audio Equipment in the Whole House Audio category has achieved this plateau.

"In the average home, 40% of all electricity used to power home electronics is consumed while the products are turned off. Across the US, this equals the annual output of 17 power plants." --EnergyStar, EPA, DOE In light of increasing consumer awareness of global warming issues and the general public will, moving toward "Green" solutions, NuVo responds to the stringent EnergyStar requirements with the new Essentia. The single measurement that EnergyStar mandates for Home Electronics is energy consumption while equipment is in "standby" mode.

"Americans spend more money to power home audio products when turned off than when actually in use". -EnergyStar, EPA, DOE

* Essentia consumes less than 1 watt of power in standby mode, exceeding the EnergyStar requirements for standby power consumption.
* Consumes only 10% of the power of the original Essentia in standby.
* First Whole Home Audio System of its kind to provide a truly energy efficient alternative to the Green conscience homeowner. Perfect for installation in increasingly popular Green spec'd homes.

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