http://www.cesweb.org/awards/innovations/innovations_2002/cat1.asp?

Hugo

The Rio® Advanced Digital Audio Center, eh.....

Sounds like the kind of name you might give to an, as yet, unannounced secret project.......

Of course, this project may (or may not) have some or all of the features previously mentioned here.

Look forward to seeing it for real, sometime soon.

Andy.

Here's an enlarged version of the picture so you can see more detail :

http://www.cesweb.org\awards\inn_images\732\rio hsx-109.jpg

The screen looks pretty amazing.....but I'm most intersted in the Rio Connect logo on the front - conectable to what...a car player???

Phill

That will be so you can connect to a rio 600/800 which is a fine feature it might support the car player but it is EOL and there ain't that many out there

But i bet there is ethernet round the back and i wonder if that is a TFT screen for some prolux visuals

Very cool. You guys are among some really impressive names in audio. Of course I was all excited entering this thread thinking you were about to post a link to a new car player beta. :)

Bruno

Oooh, you are such a tease, Hugo

Darn, I was kind of hoping that we could just wait and see how quickly the BBS people picked up on it. Didn't expect you to just give it away.

Did any of you guys check out the first thing that was listed on that CES webpage? There's a very brief description at http://www.1limited.com/tech/sp/how/. It piqued my interest, because it looks like they must be using the long promised ultra-sonic speakers. For anyone who hasn't read about them, they're one of those "five years from now" popular science products that uses interference from two ultrasonic frequencies (say 200,000 HZ and 210,000) to produce a coherent beam of audible sound. The only problem is that the distortion is massive, gets exponetially worse as you increase volume, and requires some hellish math (as in being worked on by MIT phd's) to get rid of it.

From their description of the product it sounds like they must have gotten around these problems, or found some other way to deliever a focused beam of sound. Cool stuff though, because if you mounted one of these speakers (they're supposedly quite small) on an actuator (say in a next-next generation THX theater) you could make sound come from literally any location in the theater by projecting the sound beam at it.

-Adam

OK, whan are we going to see a nice, long, detailed post in 'Announcements' ?

I'm more curious as to when we'll see an EOL announcement. SonicBlue will somehow find a way to screw up in the marketing and order fulfillment of this product.

Looks vicious. See you (and that thing) at CES.

OK, now I feel like a gimboid. I cant get any further info past the link Hugo provided. what gives?