SLS Loudspeakers Acquires Evenstar
May 14, 2004 5:10 PM
SLS Loudspeakers (www.slsloudspeakers.com) has acquired Evenstar, the owner of a patented digital amplification technology. As a result of the acquirement, Evenstar is now a wholly owned subsidiary of SLS International.
The new digital amplification technology offers weight savings and cooling. The new SLS amplifiers can be produced at up to one tenth the size and weight of normal amplifiers on the market. The design allows for the production of amplifiers from as little as a few watts to up to thousands of watts.
“This acquisition has the potential to make our unique, ultra-high-fidelity ribbon driver loudspeakers and sound systems, which already were lower priced and superior to other comparable speakers even more competitive,” says John Gott, president of SLS Loudspeakers. “The Evenstar technology will allow us to produce multiple models of amplifiers to incorporate into our loudspeaker systems and sell as additions to any audio system. We believe that this technology will significantly reduce our production costs, further enhancing our competitive position and allowing us to penetrate the mass retail market even faster. Leading retailers such as Radio Shack will now be able to offer high-quality speaker systems with amplifiers to their customers at even lower prices.”
Evenstar founder Joel Butler will head up a new SLS electronics division. Butler has a background in electronics design with an emphasis on digital signal- processing design. His previous experience includes developing test procedures and analysis systems for audio products at Acoustical Design Group, working as a senior project engineer with the Goodrich Corp. in its aerospace division, and developing global positioning systems, military IFF systems, and digital communications systems.
“We are excited to have Joel join our team,” Gott says. “We are already in the preliminary design phase of electronics and amplifiers that would be used in conjunction with the proposed products to be marketed through Radio Shack, and we expect to have many new innovative technologies developed in the coming years. Joel has created several other revolutionary audio products, including new digital and wireless technologies, and we will be working on these patent applications in the near future. We expect our electronics division to break as many molds in the industry as our ribbon driver technology has recently.”
