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Sonifex Adds Two More Prism Sound dScopes To Its Growing Stock

UK - April 2006: Sonifex Ltd has acquired two more Prism Sound dScope III audio test and measurement tools, bringing the total number of dScopes in use at its Northamptonshire premises to six.

Chris Stills, Sonifex Technical Director, with a dScope III

Sonifex, which has been at the forefront of the design and manufacture of high quality professional audio products for more than 30 years, supplies a range of products to the broadcast and pro audio industries. In recent years the company has also diversified into the security and telecommunications industries.

The most recent additions to the company's Prism Sound dScope III inventory are being used with a large automated relay switch matrix that Sonifex has developed for product testing.

Chris Stills, the company's technical director, says: "We are using dScope as part of our production line test process because it is accurate and reliable as well as being very quick to take readings. In our opinion, dScope III is much easier to use than any other test instrument on the market. It's size and portability makes it particularly useful, both on the production line and in our R&D department."

Launched in 2002, Prism Sound's dScope is suitable for a wide range of digital and analogue audio applications and is used in many market sectors including broadcast, multimedia, CD, DVD, computer audio, transducer, digital telephony and communications. It is comprehensive and accurate for R&D, portable and intuitive for maintenance or field service and fast, automatic and IT-friendly for the production line.

As well as covering the traditional audio test functions, dScope incorporates the important new features needed to work with the latest audio technologies. These include digital interface test tools such as carrier waveform and eye-pattern display, jitter measurement and AES3/IEC60958 channel status generation and analysis as well as support for higher sampling rates. dScope has a uniquely simple, state-of-the-art synchronous multi-tone capability, which can measure dozens of parameters simultaneously.