What's New February 2021?
Monthly Update...
New Products - News - Featured Products

In this issue:
  • ASC Acoustic Sciences Corporation TubeTraps
  • Anthem MRX 40's, AVM70's & MCA Gen2 shipping
  • MartinLogan Masterpiece Designed To Perform
  • Predictive Analytics In Your Bag?
  • Go Invisible Retro Or New Construction
  • Persona 5.1 System Gets A 10 Score
PAMrep recently became the representative for ASC Acoustic Sciences Corporation - home of the TubeTrap and more. They have many dealers with showrooms featuring ASC products to improve their acoustic environments. There are many end users using their products and enjoying much improved audio performance. Many studios and artists are using their unique solutions to create the very music and film scores we listen to. This compelling audio solution is available to direct dealers in IL. WI. MI. and IN.

What is an ASC Tube Trap?
A room is filled with sound. Pressure waves push through a room and fill it, like a pulsing ocean does a cove. Loudspeakers generate this pressure using two types of sound, treble and bass. Treble is small, and directional in comparison to the more powerful, omnidirectional bass waves. Full-range audio is the mixture of these two sounds. However, the powerful and larger bass range can flood a room and overcome the smaller, weaker treble range. TubeTraps control excess bass, the “bad sound,” allowing for a better mixture of the full-range audio.
Speaker In A Room Problem
The treble range of sound is projected off the front side of the speaker, towards the listener. Treble sound is not projected backwards to the rear speaker and away from the listener
But...The bass range of sound from the loudspeaker is projected equally in all directions and is heard just as clearly in front of the speaker and as well to the rear, behind the speaker.
When full range music is played by a loudspeaker, both bass and treble range sounds are projected forward where they are blended together to make a good quality full range sound. Behind the speaker only the bass is heard which has bad sonic quality.
HiFi Speakers are set up in front of the listener, facing towards the listener. They project the good sounding blend of balanced bass and treble ranges towards the listener. The bass heavy bad sound quality is conveniently projected away from the listener, but can be sent back to the listener confusing the sound sent from the speaker.
HiFi listening is usually done in rooms with speakers set up near one end of the room and the listener near the other end of the room. Each speaker projects well blended full range sound into the listening part of the room. They also project the bass heavy, bad quality sounding music away from the listener, towards the front wall.
The bad sound bounces off the front wall and floods back over the loudspeakers right towards the listener, where it mixes with and pollutes the quality good sound in the listening part of the room. The audiophile does not want to listen to the bad sound mixing with the good sound in the listening room.
TubeTraps absorb bass and scatter the treble of sound. TubeTraps are placed behind the speaker, against the front wall and the side walls. In this position they absorb the bad sound being projected to the rear of the speaker just before it hits the front wall and bounces back across the speakers and into the good sounding part of the room. The client's speakers sound dramatically better without the bad room reflections. Stereo and Theater sound improves and your client is happy!
New Anthem
AV Receivers / Preamp Processor & Amplifiers Are Shipping!
New exciting new MRX 40 Series receivers have started to ship. The MRX 1140 and MRX 740 are first to reach happy clients. Within a few weeks the first of the MRX 540's will also ship. With many new enhanced features and benefits these receivers will please many home theater enthusiasts. You can check out the entire line up here.

The new Anthem AV preamp / processors are also shipping. First is the AVM 70 with it's 15 channel capability and independent subwoofer control. It's added phono input expands audio capability. The AVM 90 is a number of weeks away yet. Read all of the details here.

All updated MCA series amplifiers are also shipping. These Gen2 models perfectly match the cosmetics and channel requirements of the AVM series. Their heft and beauty will be dressing many theaters. See more here.
This video created on the Anthem AVM 70 is a brief overview - you saw much more if you attended one of our four webinars last week. We will keep you posted as we do more of the same!
MartinLogan Masterpiece Loudspeakers
Designed To Perform
What Kind Of Predictive Analytics
Do You Use Before Installation?
Predictive Analytics
When asked. many integrators will respond with the fact that they do not use anything to determine the quality of the electrical grid they are connecting their client's equipment to. Those that go one step further indicate they check it with a meter to see if it is live. Very few inspect what they expect - perfect electrical conditions.

The fact is that without a tool to check the quality before
installation, should we be surprised to see issues arise with the install after installation?

The Predictive Analytics White Paper offers insights into the importance of knowing what you are going into electrically and saves you from expensive service call on the other side post installation. The hardware/software solution of enVision is one low cost tool to save a great deal of pain down the road.
Stealth Acoustics Invisible Loudspeakers Are Easy To Install!
Newbies to selling and installing Stealth Acoustics Invisible Loudspeakers and Subwoofers wonder if they are more difficult to install... They may be easier!!
Check out these two installations - one retrofit and one new construction!
Paradigm Persona 5.1 System Receives 10 Score!
AV Forum recently tested a Paradigm Persona 5.1 system. Click here to read the entire review. Here are a few comments:

  • ...exceptional sense of transparency and some amazing amounts of detail retrieval that deliver every note with absolute clarity.
  • The three front speakers seamlessly blend to create a wall of sound, while the sub effortlessly weaves in the bass of the drums and the weight of the crowd.
  • ,,,the result is an uncompromising performance that is often a revelation!