Omnia.11: Finally a processor that does not sound processed

Those are the exact words of a prominent Chief Engineer in Melbourne, when he first installed an Omnia.11 on his station.

AVC Sydney is currently giving customers a first taste of the magnificent Omnia.11 and has no problem finding engineers interested in taking part in on-air trials for such a well anticipated release. In every occasion, AVC Sydney is testing against an Orban processor, mostly 8500s. In every case, the result is stunning with the .11 providing an incredible improvement out of the box without any tweaking. One of the most telling comments was when a PD said that going from the 8500 to the .11 was like someone had taken a pillow off the speaker!

This all began some weeks ago, when AVC Sydney was part of the soft launch of the new Omnia.11, which coincided with Frank Foti coming downunder to Melbourne to present his paper “Cleaner But Louder” at the Commercial Radio Australia Radiofest. For the occasion, Omnia shipped 5 brand new Omnia.11 processors fresh off the production line to AVC Sydney. The received units had many of the then top secret non-processing features turned off, but the FM processing component was the complete new Omnia.11 system.

AVC Sydney has also the opportunity to compare against a brand new 8600, which a station has on demo. This is perhaps the most telling trial. The Orban 8600 is an improvement on the 8500, but the Omnia.11 is so much clearer and louder in the A-B comparison, that it seems proof positive of Frank Foti’s claim that this is not a tweak of the old Omnia 6, but a complete rethink of processing principles.

Now that the product is officially released, Omnia has sent AVC Sydney the software to turn on various features and our office is even more impressed. The touch screen interface is like having an iPad for the frontend and there are still more additional features planned for release over the coming months as Omnia makes use of the considerable processing horsepower that the Omnia.11 packs under the hood. These include a built in Digital encoder WiFi access using the built in 2.4GHz wireless device as well as remote control from a iPad or iPhone. Most interesting is the new FM single side band stereo generator which Frank has proposed and Omnia is currently testing with FCC support. This process will reduce multipath interference without impacting on the ability of receivers to decode stereo using only the lower sideband.

The demo units are currently doing the rounds of Australia and New Zealand with another one on the way to India.

The Omnia11 is worth a test drive, so contact your nearest AVC sales office to arrange a demo today.

Definitely look at this unit before you consider any other processor, especially those who claim to be new or “cleaner”. It is a major advancement.

Omnia.11: Finally a processor that does not sound processed

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