ELKHART, Indiana — HARMAN’s Crown Audio today announced Empower
by Crown, a new embedded amplifier program to provide third-party active loudspeaker
manufacturers of elite consumer electronics (CE) and customer integration (CI)
finished product with special access to the Crown Audio portfolio of amplifier
technology. Built on Crown’s proprietary DriveCore™ platform, all Empowered by
Crown Amplifiers are designed for integration into virtually any loudspeaker
configuration and application and provide the same industry leading performance
that is synonymous with Crown.
As the
world’s largest and most sophisticated designer and manufacturer of premium
amplification technologies, Crown Audio has developed a vast array of patented
technologies for professional and consumer applications. Now, having successfully proven many of these
ideas in its own offering and those of its sister brands within HARMAN’s
professional, automotive and consumer businesses, Crown Audio is making select
platforms available to premium third-parties seeking to integrate the platforms
into their CE and CI offerings.
“At Crown
Audio we’re continually working with partners within the HARMAN fold but also
with third- party brands in the automotive, professional and consumer
domains. Today, for the first time ever,
we have formalized this business reality into a business initiative so that we
can provide current and select new partners with the appropriate depth of
support,” stated John Fitzgerald, Vice President and General Manager, Amplifier
and Signal Processing, HARMAN International.
“In doing so, we provide premium partners with the highest levels of
innovation coupled with concierge-grade integration and support; we provide our
stakeholders with additional value, and we provide our engineering teams with
new opportunities to express their innovation leadership.”
The first
Empowered by Crown amplifiers offer power points from 75W up to 2x750W
continuous and 2x1000W burst @ 2 ohms. All Empower by Crown Amplifiers boast
industry-leading voltage and current drive capability; ultra-low distortion
(<0.1%) and noise (>110dB S/N).
Empower by Crown Amplifiers are EuP compliant, and feature an integrated
power supply, plus aux DC supply for input cards and networking options.
Driving
Crown’s capabilities to deliver customized solutions is its Elkhart,
Indiana-based cellular manufacturing facility, which was recently redesigned to
decrease time-to-market for new product development as well as a new
50,000-square-foot HARMAN Technology Center in Salt Lake City, Utah that opened
earlier this year and houses the company’s Corporate Technology Group
responsible for leading company-wide R&D.
An example
of innovation now being deployed across multiple products is Crown’s DriveCore
technology. The DriveCore chip, co-developed with Texas Instruments, combines
the amplifier drive stage into the power output stage circuits that are
typically much larger in size and power requirements. As a result, power
consumption is dramatically reduced and the amplifiers are far more
energy-efficient.
Ideal for
confident deployment in high caliber powered speakers, Crown Embedded
Amplifiers will feature an integrated protection suite including Clipping,
Temperature, Shorted/Failed driver, over-current, AC mains over/under voltage
that is managed locally through Drivecore.
All
Empowered by Crown Amplifiers are backed by Crown’s unrivaled technical
expertise and concierge-grade integration and support.
“We don’t
expect to have solutions to fit every manufacturer’s product mix, idea or
particular challenge but when Crown Audio does partner with a third-party we
want that partnership to be comprehensive and valuable,” Fitzgerald added. “I am confident that this formalization of
our program and the institution of support will lead to new, fruitful and
long-standing relationships and exciting, successful new products.”
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