ELKHART, Indiana — HARMAN’s Crown Audio
today announced that it is now shipping its new DriveCore Install (DCi) Series
power amplifiers. Successor to the company’s acclaimed CTs Series, the DCi
Analog two, four, and eight channel
amplifiers incorporate a host of improvements including HARMAN’s exclusive
DriveCore™ technology to set new industry standards in sound quality,
flexibility and efficiency.
Twelve models in the DCi Series are
available ranging from 300 watts to 600 watts of minimum guaranteed power into 4 and 8 ohms and 70Vrms and 100Vrms. The first number in the model is the
amount of channels and the second number indicates the watts-per-channel power
rating. All amplifiers are just 2U rack spaces high, to conserve valuable
installation space.
“We designed the DCi Series to be the
new world standard for amplifiers in installed sound applications,” said Daniel
Saenz, Business Segment Manager, Install Sound, Crown. “In fact, the DCi Series
could be nothing less, considering the CTs Series established itself as the
benchmark power amplifier for fixed installations. The DCi Series lives up to
the task and then some and audio professionals worldwide will appreciate its
greatly improved performance, flexible features, high efficiency and compact
form factor.”
At the heart of the DCi Series is
HARMAN’s proprietary DriveCore amplifier IC chip. The DriveCore chip combines
the amplifier driver stage into the power output stage along with additional
audio-signal functions – yet is about the size of a postage stamp. DriveCore
and the DCi Series’ leading-edge amplifier topologies dramatically reduce size
and power consumption requirements and yield much more energy-efficient
operation that conforms to HARMAN International’s GreenEdge™ environmental
initiative.
DriveCore technology dramatically
reduces the footprint of the amplifier by replacing over 500 parts from a
typical amplifier design with one single IC. Smaller amplifier engines means
more channels can be put into a 2 RU box with more capabilities.
Crown DCi Series amplifiers can be
operated into 8-, 4- or 2-ohm loads and offer direct drive “constant voltage”
capabilities for 70Vrms and 100Vrms amplification without the need for a step-up
transformer, yielding higher audio quality and more power available at the speaker in distributed audio applications. The
amplifiers incorporate an exclusive Power Factor Corrected (PFC) global power
supply that is designed to deliver
maximum power in any country and their universal AC input accepts voltages from
100 – 240 VAC, 50/60Hz (+/- 10%).
The DCi Series is Crown’s greenest
amplifier line ever, with a PFC power supply, a selectable powersave auto-standby mode
where the amplifier will power down after 30
minutes of no input signal and consume less than 1 watt. In addition to the
amplifiers’ balanced 3-pin input connectors and 2-pin terminal strip output
connectors, a rear-panel AUX port enables the amplifiers to be integrated into
control systems for remote on/off and amplifier fault monitoring.
Crown DCi Series amplifiers are built
for the most demanding conditions of continuous professional use and carry a
3-year, no-fault fully transferrable warranty.
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