Audio Precision launched model 8.0 of its APx500 Measurement Software program. Important check time financial savings and far quicker reporting of vital measurements are the important thing options of this improve, which additionally provides an improved Bose SoneTrac methodology for Rub & Buzz measurements. Model 8.0 options software program efficiency optimizations that cut back pointless computation and velocity up sequence execution. This leads to a lot quicker reporting of vital measurements similar to THD+N.
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“Model 8.0, together with our common cadence of enhancements to APx500 software program, permits customers to reap the benefits of measurement scalability and effectivity, and profit from as a lot as a 40% saving in check instances,” says Daniel Knighten, Audio Precision Common Supervisor. “This improve reinforces our philosophy of delivering a steady program of enhancements that not solely saves clients money and time, but additionally will increase the worth of their new and present analyzers.”
This newest model incorporates updates to Bose SoneTrac, which based on Audio Precision is a Bose-developed improved methodology for Rub & Buzz measurements that filters the residual sign and ratios it to the RMS of the overall sign to scale back the noisiness of the measurement end result. This methodology was launched with APx model 6.1 software program and now permits customers to make measurements in the identical means as Bose to expertise extra refined management over sign processing within the detection of rub and buzz defects.
Model 8.0 additionally offers customers entry to THD+N outcomes utilizing the FastSweep stimulus in Steady Sweep, Acoustic Response and Loudspeaker manufacturing check. As its identify implies, this extraordinarily quick stepped frequency sign sweep gives a number of benefits over a logarithmically swept sine (chirp) sign, together with a capability to comb from low-to-high or high-to-low frequency, a scarcity of transient ripples at low or excessive frequencies, help for measuring harmonics above the twentieth, and exact management of the variety of discrete factors utilized in measurements.
“Audio Precision’s energy lies in offering elite audio evaluation, audio measurement software program, and a variety of modules, choices and equipment to help analog and digital audio measurement,” Dan Knighten provides. “Our model 8.0 software program goals to provide engineers the evaluation instruments they should help their very own revolutionary product design and manufacturing processes.”
As a part of its improve path, Audio Precision’s more moderen software program updates embody v7.1 and v7.0. Model 7.1 gives built-in dealing with of items of measure and enhance the presentation of enter items, permitting customers to scale any enter in both the native unit area of that bodily enter or in Volts, FS, Pascals, or Amps; whereas v7.0 permits the usage of FastSweep in open loop testing situations, such because the testing of good audio system.
To make sure Audio Precision clients by no means miss out on the most recent software program upgrades, the corporate additionally gives software program subscriptions out there in a single, three or five-year increments. This provides customers an all-access move to non-obligatory APx measurements at some stage in their subscription (excluding PESQ & PLQA) at no extra value.
Headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, AP is now a part of Axiometrix Options, a holding firm additionally combining the check options from GRAS Sound & Vibration and imc Take a look at & Measurement.
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