X-spat boX² System

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A&G Soluzioni Digitali was created in 1995 by Augusto Gentili and Luigi Agostini as a provider of turnkey solutions for all professional audio digital operators. It quickly grew to become one of the best known and respected companies in the field of B2B distribution, with over thirty authorised outlets all over Italy. Through the years they have been distributing big brands like Apogee Electronics, Audient plc, Lynx Studio Technology and Rupert Neve Designs, and have taken part in innumerable trade fairs both in Italy and abroad (you may even recognise yourself in our Photo Gallery).
In 1998 the company created a parallel branch devoted to research and development in the field of three-dimensional multi channel audio applications, working with engineering concerns like Giorgio Gaber’s Goigest and the Universities of Pisa and Florence. Following a project financed by the European Union and denominated E.A.S.Y (Expandable Audio Spatialisation sYstem, 2001) Tetrapc TTN European Community Project, A&G Soluzioni Digitali acquired the rights for a technology developed by Luigi Agostini, promptly patented in Italy and currently being extended abroad: (WO/2003/015471) DEVICE AND METHOD TO SIMULATE THE PRESENCE OF ONE OR MORE SOUND SOURCES VIRTUALLY POSITIONED IN A THREE-DIMENSIONAL ACOUSTIC SPACE; (WO/2003/015015) METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING THE POSITION IN THREE-DIMENSIONAL SPACE OF ONE OR MORE COMPUTER POINTING DEVICES.

Working on these bases, the Company created and marketed their first system consisting of a PCI card and Windows software developed by the Livorno based company Rigel Engineering, and distributed in conjunction with Clever-e. The I.M.E.A.S.Y system (Interactive Modular and Expandable Audio Spatialisation sYstem) was presented to the public during the 109th Audio Engineering Society Convention in Los Angeles, from the 22nd to the 25th September 2000.

This product became obsolete within three years and in 2004 was replaced by a card for the famous Apogee Electronics Rosetta 800 converter. The expansion card was called Spatialisation X-series card. It was one of the first professional products to be based on the firewire chip by the Swiss company Bridge-co. The card had some innovative features that have later been adopted in other similar products by big brands operating in this sector. Moreover A&G could claim the distinction of being the first “third party” company of Apogee Electronics, the undisputed world leaders for the production of audio converters. From the ashes of the Spatialisation-X-series card was born the first version of the X-spat boX. This product, still available until stocks last and used by a large number of sound designers all over the world, will soon be retired to make space for the latest X-spat boX².

But this is not history: this is the future of multi-channel audio devices...