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New Omnia-6EX Debuts for Digital FM

Cleveland, OH (October 29, 2003)--Omnia Audio has introduced a new processor for FM broadcasters. Omnia-6EX offers parallel processing paths individually optimized for conventional FM audio and digital transmission chains, especially bit-reduced codecs used with HD Radio/DAB service and satellite systems.

Omnia-6EX adds enhanced processing and fine-tuning controls to the Omnia-6 platform. Omnia-6EX has a unique parallel processing structure that routes audio from the mixer section to output stages for conventional FM and DAB. The FM section receives distortion-controlled final limiting with pre-emphasis, and an upper-frequency response of 15 kHz. The DAB section has a multi-band Look-Ahead final limiter with user-selectable frequency response all the way up to the full audio bandwidth of 20 kHz.

"It's no secret that clean audio is our passion," says Omnia president Frank Foti. "We're always researching new ways to process audio and reach new performance levels. Omnia-6EX substantially advances the management and suppression of processing-induced intermodulation distortion. New processing algorithms in Omnia-6EX yield cleaner, louder audio for any given amount of processing. And it's nice to finally be able to put back the last bit of high-end that FM listeners have been missing for so long."

"We've had Omnia-6EX on the air for a couple of weeks, and Wild 100.3 has never sounded better," says Dan Kieley, program director of Infinity Broadcasting's KRBV-FM (Wild 100.3/Dallas). "I had the pleasure of being first to put Omnia on in Los Angeles [at KIIS-FM], and now we're first in Dallas with the Omnia-6EX. It's wide, loud and clean--and I've never heard the bottom end sound like this."

Omnia (a Telos company)
www.omniaaudio.com