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systems based in

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. They offer a wide range of self-powered products with internal all-analog processing, as well as rackmount

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s for system integration.

History

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EONA ADRaudio was started by General Manager Franci Pavlin and Chief Engineer Ales Dravinec in 2004. At the 125th AES Convention in San Francisco in 2008, Dravinec joined veteran loudspeaker designers Charlie Hughes (formerly of

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and

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(formerly of

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and

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), Pete Soper (of

Meyer Sound Laboratories Meyer Sound Laboratories is an American company based in Berkeley, California that manufactures self-powered loudspeakers, multichannel audio show control systems, electroacoustic architecture, and audio analysis tools for the professional sound ...

), Ralph Heinz (of Renkus-Heinz) and

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(has designed for Servodrive,

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, Danley Sound Labs) in a panel discussion, moderated by industry veteran Tom Young, to share thoughts about the art of loudspeaker design in the application of live sound reinforcement.Young, Tom. (7 October 2008
"Re: My AES 125 Thoughts #2"
, LAB: The Classic Live Audio Board, Sound Reinforcement, Forum Home. Not certain he would be able to appear at a follow-on seminar in New York City in October 2009, Dravinec declined to add his name to the pre-event announcement. Nonetheless, he appeared as a last minute panelist and rejoined Young, Gunness and Hughes as well as speaker designer Doug Jones, representing Danley Sound Labs. Jamie Taylor, Managing Director of Australian Event Productions, signed on as the Asia-Pacific distributor in 2008. During the ENTECH trade show in

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that year, Pavlin, Dravinec and Prescott came to exhibit the product line. Of the M1225 monitor wedge, Taylor said it "is very loud, yet sounds very well-rounded, and I can pick it up without breaking a sweat! I used these exact wedges on a national level touring band recently, and they nearly tried putting them in their van at the load out!" In 2018, ADRaudio helped recreate the

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speaker system for the Grateful Dead tribute act Dead on Live. Jason Dermer of Asbury Audio in New Jersey put the sound system together using five ADRaudio L2821 line array enclosures for each instrument in the band.

References

External links

*{{Official website, http://www.adraudio.com/ Loudspeaker manufacturers Manufacturers of professional audio equipment Slovenian companies established in 2004 Audio equipment manufacturers of Slovenia Slovenian brands Electronics companies established in 2004 Loudspeakers