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NHK ROLLS OUT NEW REMOTE BROADCAST TRUCK FEATURING GENELEC ACTIVE MONITORING
FOR STEREO AND 5.1 SURROUND SOUND
— The noted Japanese network chooses Genelec 8000 Series Active
Bi-Amplified Monitors and a 7000 Series Active Subwoofer for American
professional baseball broadcasts and more —
NATICK, MA, August 12, 2008 — Japanese
broadcast leader NHK’s American division, NHK Enterprises America,
Inc., rolled out a new HD mobile broadcast production truck, K3 Ruby,
in time for this year’s American professional baseball season.
Since 2001, when former Japanese Pacific League star fielder Ichiro
Suzuki joined the Seattle Mariners, NHK has aired more than 280 games
a year in Japan. This year, the new K3 Ruby has been covering select
baseball games, including the All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium, for Japanese
broadcast. Thanks to an all-Genelec Active Monitoring environment, featuring
a pair of Genelec 8040A Bi-Amplified Active Monitors for stereo and
five Genelec 8020A Bi-Amplified Active Monitors and a Genelec 7050B
Active Subwoofer for surround sound monitoring aboard the truck, K3
Ruby will have the ability to produce both stereo and 5.1 surround sound
up to the highest standards of quality.
Kazutaka Noda, Audio Engineer with NHK Enterprises America,
who designed the truck’s audio and intercom systems, chose the
Genelec Active Monitors for a variety of reasons. “What’s
good about the Genelec monitors is the balance and power that comes
from their internal amplification,” he stated. “They are
ideal for remote broadcasting work because of their built-in, perfectly
matched power amplifiers, as well as their durability. They’re
tough. I've been using Genelecs since the early 1990s, and another main
reason I continue to choose them is because they are the standard reference
speaker of choice for so many engineers, and you need that when you
are monitoring in many different locations, sometimes with local and
freelance audio professionals.”
Noda mounted the 5.1 L-C-R array (Genelec 8020A’s)
by hanging them off the racks above the Euphonix digital console, with
the rear speakers on stands that are stowed until needed. The separate
stereo pair (Genelec 8040A’s) are on floated mounts above the
meter bridge. “The reason we use 8020A’s for the 5.1 system
is because the relationship between the space and size of speakers is
very important,” he explains. “It needs to have enough space
and air around the units to create a natural-sounding environment, and
the Genelecs achieve that very, very well.”
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Photo File: Genelec_NHK.JPG
Photo Caption: Shown above is the main mixing console inside the K3
Ruby truck, owned and operated by NHK Enterprises America, Inc., featuring
a stereo array of Genelec 8040A Bi-Amplified Active Monitors and an
L-C-R array of 8020A Bi-Amplified Active Monitors.
Genelec, the pioneer in Active Monitoring technology,
is celebrating 30 years of designing and manufacturing active loudspeakers
for true and accurate sound reproduction. Genelec is credited with promoting
the concept of active transducer technology, which many manufacturers
are just now incorporating into their products. Since its inception
in 1978, Genelec has concentrated its efforts and resources into creating
active monitors with unparalleled sonic integrity. The result is an
active speaker system that has earned global acclaim for its accurate
imaging, extremely high acoustic output from small enclosures, true
high-fidelity with low distortion, and deep, rich bass.
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respective companies with which they are associated.
—For more information on the complete range of Genelec Active
Monitoring Systems, contact: Genelec Inc., 7 Tech Circle, Natick, MA
01760. Tel: (508) 652-0900; Fax: (508) 652-0909;
Web: http://www.genelecusa.com/.