Aug 27, 2003 12:00 PM, Editors

The Ultrasone HFI-550 Beatmaster professional headphone is now available in North America. Ultrasone headphones are distributed in the United States, Canada and Mexico by EARS Audio Distribution LLC, a newly formed company that is co-founded by Linda Albright, sole proprietor of Franklin, Tenn.,-based EARS Audio, a professional audio sales and rental company since April 1984.

The HFI-550 Beatmaster is a foldable, closed-back, circumaural studio headphone featuring Ultrasone's patented S-Logic Natural Surround Sound technology and is available in reduced magnetic field emissions versions incorporating ULE(tm) Ultra-Low Emissions technology. The Beatmaster offers a frequency response of 15Hz to 22kHz and an impedance of 32 ohms, and can handle sound pressure levels up to 100 dB.

Unique to Ultrasone, S-Logic technology utilizes decentralized transducer positioning to create a 3-D sensation without using processing, producing a broad, stereophonic surround soundfield that is located in front of the listener. Also, listeners perceive the same volume with sound pressure levels at the eardrum reduced by up to 40%. All Ultrasone headphones are available in versions that offer two levels of shielding against EMF radiation in accordance with international and German standards. Ultrasone LE Low-Emissions versions offer a reduction of up to 60%, while ULE Ultra-Low Emissions models reduce EMF radiation by as much as 98%.

For more information about Ultrasone, visit www.ultrasone.com. Ultrasone AG and EARS Audio Distribution LLC will be at Booth #843 at the 115th AES Convention (Jacob K. Javits Center, New York City, October 10-13, 2003).

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