Gayle Sanders Returns to High-End Speaker Market With Active Digital System
MartinLogan co-founder Gayle Sanders plans to premiere his new company, Eikon Audio, and a $24,500 digital active loudspeaker system at the 2018 Audio Expo North America show in Schaumburg, Illinois, this week, the company announced Tuesday. Eikon speakers are hand-built…
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and tested in Norwalk, Connecticut, using digital signal processing technology and new amplifiers with Sanders’ engineering; they don’t use the signature electrostatic technology Sanders was known for with MartinLogan, he noted. The Image1 system is based on the Eikontrol command center, which can accept any digital or analog input and is controllable by a smartphone or computer, said the company. By integrating digital amplifier technology, directly coupled to extremely low-distortion drivers, the system can achieve “excellent precision and coherence without the need and expense of big stacks of gear,” said Sanders.