THX pm3™ Approved Yamaha Digital Consoles and Monitors

Yamaha Digital Consoles DM2000V2, DM1000V2 & 02R96V2 are now included on the THX pm3™ Approved Equipment List as Studio Monitoring Systems, and the Powered Monitor Speaker MSP10 Studio as Front & Surround speakers.

In fact the above consoles are the world's first digital consoles equipped with complete surround monitoring facilities built-in, eliminating the need to connect and feed the signal to external monitoring equipment, and offer perfect solution used in combination with the Powered Monitor Speaker MSP10 Studio.

Known worldwide for high quality entertainment sound and picture, the THX pm3™ (Professional Multi-Channel Mixing & Monitoring) Studio Certification Program addresses the need for reliable, translatable, and superior performance in professional multi-channel mixing and monitoring studios worldwide. THX has created a performance standard that focuses on the listening and viewing environment, selection of audio and video equipment, layout of the working area, and calibration.

Steven P. Martz, Design Engineering Manager of THX states, "We are very pleased to add the Yamaha Digital Consoles to the THX pm3™ Approved Equipment List. The DM2000, DM1000 and 02R96 have been designed and enhanced with full surround monitoring capabilities. Under the supervision of the THX representative in Japan, the introduction of Version2 software allows Yamaha users to have pm3 compliant parameters by just selecting one of the THX presets. These are the same settings used in the THX certified studios.

Yamaha Digital Consoles
have the following surround functions built-in

Surround Production Functions

Fully compatible with 3-1, 5.1 and 6.1 surround processing, panning and monitoring
Flexible surround bus set up
Built-in Joy stick
Graphical user interface and parameters to assist accurate surround PAN positioning and efficient moves of sound image.
Built-in surround effects including "Reverb 5.1", "Comp 5.1", "Expand 5.1" etc.

THX pm3™ Approved Surround Monitoring Functions

Downmix monitoring matrix
Bass Management: Comprehensive filter and attenuator setting and THX pm3™ presets
Monitor Alignment functions (Attenuator and delay for individual speakers)
Build-in Oscillator
"Snap to 85dB SPL" function

The manager of Yamaha Corporation Commercial Audio Business Unit states" We are very glad that our long term relationship with THX has resulted in the THX menu incorporated in the version2 software and the THX pm3™ approval. We are looking forward to more and more of our consoles used in the professional surround production facilities, and also this collaboration with THX will result in the popularization of the correctly produced high quality surround contents benefiting the listeners and the industry alike."

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