EAW offers a wide range of professional loudspeaker products for Touring, A/V, Installed Sound and Cinema. EAW has been making industry leading loudspeaker solutions for over twenty years. EAW products are designed to offer superior features and performance.

Occasionally imitated, but never duplicated EAW is the jewel in the loudspeaker industries crown.

The development of audio technologies is a science - but it is also an art. To merge both concepts together during loudspeaker design requires ingenious technical skill and passionate creativity. Since its inception in 1978, EAW has successfully displayed the mastery of this conceptual merger through their highly acclaimed and technologically superior product offerings. Year after year, EAW leads the professional audio industry in technical audio advancement and creative loudspeaker design. As a result, EAW has become the worldwide technological and market leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance, professional loudspeaker design.

EAW is widely used by contractors and touring companies around the world.

Canadian Installations include:

Brush Prairie Baptist Church, Vancouver, WA
Centre in the Square, Kitchener, ON
Chan Centre, Vancouver, BC
Chinook Centre Mall, Calgary, AB
Glen Gould Studio/CBC Broadcast Centre, Toronto, ON
Lakeview Multi-Cultural United Church, Vancouver, BC
Landsdowne Stadium, Ottawa, ON
Molson Amphitheatre, Toronto, ON
National Arts Centre, Ottawa, ON
Olivet United Church, Hamilton, ON
Pacific Community Church, Surrey, BC
Saint Lukes Cathedral, Sault Saint Marie, ON
South Delta Baptist Church, Vancouver, B.C.
Stanley Theatre, Vancouver, BC
SkyDome, Toronto, ON
Winspear Centre, Edmonton, AB

 

International Installations include:
Jackie Gleason Performing Arts Centre, Miami, FL
Kennedy Centre, Concert Hall, Washington, DC
Metropolitan Opera, New York, NY
House of Blues, New Orleans, LA
House of Blues, Myrtle Beach, SC
Hard Rock Cafe, San Antonio, TX
Hard Rock Cafe, Madrid, Spain
Hard Rock Cafe, Boston, MA
Hard Rock Cafe, Nashville, TN
Hard Rock Cafe', Universal Studios, FL
Opéra de Lyon, Lyon, France
Palais du Pharo, Marseilles, France
Royal Festival Hall, London, UK
Xénith, Pau, France
Carnival Cruise Lines, Bahamas
Casino Baden, Baden, Austria

 

EAW's goal for every loudspeaker system is to provide flat power response and minimal distortion as applied to a given application. As a result, the entire EAW product range sounds remarkably similar, from the ultra-compact UB12Se to the massive KF900 Series. Since integrated active electronic signal processing is included into the total system, the processors do not employ dynamic effects. This ensures that the sound quality remains consistent at all output levels. All EAW processors are created as crossovers precisely aligned (Close Coupled™) to the systems they are designed to control.

EAW speakers are frequently specified on concert tours and high profile installations around the world for these very reasons.

 

By using a steady stream of core technologies and competencies, EAW has maintained a leadership position in the professional loudspeaker industry. The evolution of the EAW product family and design philosophy centers around four major technological innovations:

Innovation #1:

Prior to the introduction of EAW pre-packaged three-way systems, industry professionals created their own loudspeaker systems. The EAW packaged loudspeaker system proved to be a landmark turning point in the professional audio industry. By loading complimentary drivers and horns into a carefully designed enclosure, a level of consistency and performance far exceeding that of the highest skilled industry professionals was achieved.

Innovation #2:

Customized and Application-specific Systems. As packaged loudspeaker systems gained popularity, acoustic consultants started incorporating them into their designs. Since certain types of projects called for variances to the packaged approach, EAW modified the packaging process to respond to individual project's needs. Eventually, many of these designs were manifested into general-purpose products.

Innovation #3:

Broadband Pattern Control. Some of the first EAW products were based on three-way designs using horn-loaded MF and HF drivers. Working with industry professionals, EAW developed techniques for extending pattern control into the lower frequencies through the use of new approaches to horn design, driver arrays and signal processing. Such pattern control is particularly important for systems used in large spaces, or where feedback is potential. From these developments, smooth broadband pattern control is now a design factor for all EAW sound reinforcement products.

Innovation #4:

Array Optimization and Pattern Steering through DSP, extending out of Broadband Pattern Control is the development of techniques for improving pattern control using electronic means. The core technology was developed as part of the KF900 Series project. To support electronically controllable arrays, EAW has developed a number of ancillary tools and technologies. These include modelling tools for acoustical sources, venues, filters, air-loss and related parameters, as well as measurement systems and techniques unique to this process. The KF900 technologies also extend to other EAW products, such as MQ, KF750 and KF760 families and custom products.