Blue Sky Audio Management Controller (AMC)
Bass Management / Room-Correction Monitor Controller
Monitor ControllerPrice not published
Specifications
- Type
- Monitor Controller
- Description
- Bass Management / Room-Correction Monitor Controller
- Topology
- 8-channel DSP-based routing/bass-management processor; any input routable to any output, multiple inputs mixable to any output
- Signal path
- Digital (recallable / digitally controlled)
- Channels
- 8
- Channel format
- up to 7.1 (7.1.4 when two AMC units are linked)
- Form factor
- 1U rack chassis processor + separate desktop remote control unit
- Rack units
- 1
- Connection
- balanced analog + AES/EBU digital audio I/O; USB (control/measurement only)
- Sample rate (kHz)
- 48, 96 (Pure-Digital bypass mode); built-in sample-rate converter accommodates other input rates
- DSP
- yes - 8-channel DSP; 1/3 octave EQ plus 8-band parametric EQ and filters per channel (10-band on bass channel); variable delay/time alignment; 7.1 bass management with variable per-channel cutoff frequency; Speaker Room Optimization (SRO) auto room-correction using Blue Sky's proprietary Binary Organic Optimization (BOO) algorithm, run via Speaker Manager PC software
- Introduced
- 2014
- Country of manufacture
- USA
Details
Controls: large weighted rotary control, lighted hardware buttons, LCD display screen, mute/solo switches, 8 system presets (EQ curves, etc.), lip-sync delay
I/O: balanced analog I/O (+4dBu / -6dBu selectable); AES/EBU 110-ohm balanced transformer-coupled digital I/O; USB port for PC connection (Speaker Manager / SRO software); externally-accessible mute input
Notes: FLAG: this is a bass-management/room-correction controller, not a monitor or subwoofer itself; classified device_class=Monitor Controller per project field guidance. Marketed as compatible with any speaker brand (not exclusive to Blue Sky monitors). Introduced alongside the Star System One 2.1 at NAMM January 2014 per Blue Sky press release. No published USD price found for the standalone AMC (left blank); only the bundled Star System One 2.1 system price is published.