Fulcrum Acoustic

Vote for us in the Best of InfoComm Awards

Friends of Fulcrum, we need your vote! Our CX896 TQ install loudspeaker is in the running for the Best of InfoComm award, sponsored by NEC.

Customer feedback: Intermedia Systems Group

Fulcrum recently got the chance to work with Intermedia Systems Group, a systems integrator in Burnsville, Minn. Read what Josh Jagdfeld, their vice president, had to say about us.

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Hey Friends of Fulcrum!
We’ve been working on some exciting projects and have plenty to share with you. You can now join the email list for our upcoming e-newsletter that will contain company news, new product announcements, and some exclusive content – but only for email subscribers. Click here to sign up.
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New Spec Sheets Available

It’s been a long arduous project, but it’s finally done – all new spec sheets are now available for the entire TQ Install (CX & DX) line.  The new format includes a plethora of graphical data – including unprocessed response, processed response, processed phase response, impedance, horizontal and vertical off axis response, beamwidth, directivity index [...]

Now

Congratulations to Friend of Fulcrum, Jeff Mason, as his recording, “Now” soars to #2 on the pop chart of the OURSTAGE music site.
http://www.ourstage.com/contests/3723-pop
You Tube Video of Live Performance
In the interest of full disclosure , I should mention that three Fulcrumites played on the album – Andy Jordan on drums, Ed Wyllie on guitar, and [...]

Holiday Greetings

I just wanted to wish everybody a happy holiday season.
Thanks to all of our customers, past and future.  We look forward to great things for the coming year.
Cheers,
Dave

Fulcrum Acoustic adds rep firm First Choice Marketing

Fulcrum Acoustic welcomes First Choice Marketing of Seattle, WA, as the newest rep firm to join our domestic sales effort. Based in the Pacific Northwest since 1990, First Choice Marketing’s award-winning sales team has extensive experience in the professional audio market and has worked with many top-tier brands. They will represent Fulcrum Acoustic in Washington, [...]

Fulcrum’s CEO presents at Prolight + Sound Shanghai

Fulcrum’s CEO Stephen Siegel (pictured, far left) recently attended the 2009 Prolight + Sound Shanghai trade show on October 13 and 14, 2009. The well-attended audio, lighting, and entertainment technology show was held at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre. While there, Stephen gave a presentation at the Performing Arts Leaders Forum titled “Coaxial Loudspeakers [...]

DX Series hits a high note for Worcester Polytechnic

Fulcrum Acoustic recently supplied a pair of DX1295 loudspeakers to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Mass., in support of their production of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “South Pacific” held in Alden Memorial Hall.
Although WPI is best known as one of the top engineering schools in the country, the college’s Department of Humanities [...]

David Gunness on loudspeaker design panel at AES

For those of you headed to AES this week, please check out our co-founder, David Gunness, who is participating in a panel discussion about loudspeaker design for live sound on Monday, October 12th from 9:00 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. The panel is chaired by Tom Young of Electroacoustic Design Services, and other panel participants include [...]

Fulcrum Acoustic ships new US221 subwoofer

We are pleased to announce the debut of the new dual 21 inch US221 subwoofer. The ultra-compact, direct radiating subwoofer is designed with 6 inch voice coils and low-turbulence ports coupled with especially rigid cones that allow the pair of woofers to handle 4000 watts of long term power.
The US221 provides high impact clarity and [...]

Fulcrum fan page on Facebook

Are you a Fan of Fulcrum on Facebook? (Would that make you a FoFoF?) If you haven’t done so already, check out our fan page on Facebook and become a fan! Our Facebook fans recently got a sneak peak of the new double 21-inch subwoofer that will debut very, very soon. What else are we [...]

Fulcrum to showcase at AV Expo in Dallas

Fulcrum is heading south on October 14th and 15th to Dallas, Texas, where we’ll exhibit and demo some product at the AV Expo co-hosted by our rep, Audio Technologies Group (ATG). This two-day event is open to AV professionals, architects, consultants, and end users. Attendees can register at www.audiotg.com/Dallas or call 405-375-6477.
Event details are as [...]

J.P. Mazzeo Associates joins Fulcrum rep force

Fulcrum Acoustic is pleased to announce the newest addition to our growing rep force. Joseph P. Mazzeo Associates has been in the pro industry since 1968 and is handling our sales in Upstate/Western NY. You can find complete contact information in the “sales contacts” section of our web site.

Fulcrum product demos coming to NYC

Start spreading the news! Fulcrum Acoustic is invading New York City for two days of product demos in mid-September. Come hear our latest and greatest products, and have a chat with company co-founder David Gunness and product guru Rich Frembes.
When: September 16 and September 17, 2009 at 10am, 1pm, 4pm, and 7pm each day.
Where: The [...]

Champion Enterprises joins Fulcrum rep force

We are pleased to announce that Champion Enterprises has joined Fulcrum Acoustic’s rep team.  Champion will be handling sales in MN, ND, SD, WI, and Northern IL.  You can find complete contact information in the “sales contacts” section of the website.

New Reps for Middle Atlantic, Southern Midwest

We are pleased to announce the addition of Lienau AV Associates and Audio Technologies Group to the Fulcrum rep force.  Lienau AV will be handling the Middle-Atlantic region, and ATG will be helping out with TX/AR/LA/OK.  Full contact information for both firms is available on the Sales Contacts section of the website.

Equalized Sensitivity and Equalized Max SPL

The traditional sensitivity figure and the maximum SPL calculated from it, are not very meaningful for products that are intended to be used with active processing.  This is especially true for many Fulcrum Acoustic products, because of the unique processing schemes we use.  In order to provide a more realistic comparison between various loudspeakers, we [...]

Fulcrum at InfoComm, Booth 6535

We’ll be at InfoComm in Orlando next week, booth 6535.  Check out the latest in the Prophile and TQ Install product lines.

Interview in ProAV

Sam Berkow, longtime friend and founder of SIA Acoustics, interviewed Dave for ProAV.  Read the interview here: http://tinyurl.com/qdnoce

Fulcrum at KOBA, PALM

If you happen to be in Seoul or Beijing for the upcoming KOBA and PALM exhibitions, you might want to stop by and visit with our distributors.  Accord Sound will be representing Fulcrum at KOBA (Seoul, Korea, May 26 – 29), and Eastern Acoustic Development will be representing Fulcrum at PALM (Beijing, China, May 28 – [...]

Canadian Rollout with SF Marketing

Fulcrum’s Canadian distributor, SF Marketing, held a product introduction and demo at their headquarters facility in April.  We had a great time unveiling the various products and techologies to the SF Team, as well as a number of consultants and contractors.

Fulcrum at InfoComm

We are pleased to announce that we will be making our InfoComm debut this year.  We will have Prophile Series and TQ Install series products at our booth (#6535).

New Rep Firms join the Fulcrum Family

We’re pleased to announce that Audio Associates (mid-Atlantic), John B. Anthony Company (Metro NY) and On The Road Marketing (New England) have all joined our US Rep team.  Check the “Sales Contacts” section of the website for full contact information.

Recognize that cap?

Yes, it’s Rich Frembes, the newest member of the Fulcrum team.  Anyone who knows Rich already undertands his role at Fulcrum – Product Guru and Processing Maven.  He’s already hard at work developing processing configurations for use with Lab.gruppen/Lake DSP.

Demos, New Product and Canadian Debut

CX and DX products are shipping.  We’ve now sold them in 4 countries (counting the USA, of course).  Dave and I have been getting the word out, and scheduling demo’s.  Dave was on the West Coast conducting demo’s with Greg Hockman.  Everyone who hears the product has been quite impressed.  We’ll post more installation photo’s as [...]

Why is this man smiling?

No, it’s not Stan Laurel.  It’s Eddie Wyllie, whom we are proud to welcome as Fulcrum’s newest employee. Ed has previous speaker company experience in manufacturing, service, shipping, finance, and guitar playing.  This is good, because he will probably need to utilize all those skills here at Fulcrum.

What’s new at Fulcrum.

The Blog’s been a bit quiet for a while.  However, there has been lots going on.  We launched V2.0 of the webiste (but you already knew that).  We’ve also finished up our second line of products, the CX/DX series.  These are the first TQ Intall product families.  Product information is posted on the website.  We [...]

Martini Park System Up and Running

We were in Columbus Ohio for the grand opening of the Martini Park (www.martinipark.com). This was the first Fulcrum PA to be put into action. The system consists of 2 XLS mains, 2 XLSB subs, and 2 215 subs. The band sounded fantastic, and the crowd had a great time (so did [...]

Low Frequency Measurement Facility

As you can see, what our new low frequency measurement facility lacks in terms of environmental controls, it makes up with . . . well, with environment. New England is beautiful this time of year, isn’t it?

Temporal Equalization

On the very first day of Fulcrum Acoustic’s existence, work began on a new suite of tools and techniques for developing advanced digital signal processing. It would be nice to report that this work is complete, but the fact is, it never will be. Just as we continually push the envelope in loudspeaker [...]

Products page is up

Check out the new “Products” page on the website. We’ve started shipping the JL series of high-performance dance club loudspeakers. We hope to have some installation photos in the near future.
Keep watching – there’s much more in the works for lots of other applications! We’ll be adding more series’ in the next [...]

Back From AES

I just got back from the AES Convention in lovely downtown San Francisco. The highlight for me was being untethered, which allowed me to sit through most of the papers I was interested in, while still having ample time to mingle.

My only “official” duties were to serve on the panels for two live sound seminars [...]

There’s a new guy in town.

We are thrilled to have Andy Jordan join the Fulcrum team. Andy is going to be working on product/sales support, purchasing, manufacturing coordination, BOM’s, inventory management and pretty much everything else. Its only his first day, and he is already WAY behind….

What’s That Humming Noise?

It must be the sound of production run #2 getting going. The boys at the wood shop are hard at work cranking out cabinets.

I guess we’re a manufacturer now

Well, we shipped off our first batch of gear last week. It was about 45 boxes (plus some ceiling speakers) headed out for an install in Vegas. We all pitched in to help build up the boxes. Here you can see some of the various subwoofers, as well as the PA mains [...]

Stringent Documentation Requirements at Fulcrum

Schematic for a crossover network, signed by the artist. Maybe this will be worth some real $$ on “Antiques Road Show” one day.

Comments on Half Space

The subject of half space loading seems to be coming up a lot lately, and it always seems to cause a bit of confusion. Mostly to clarify my own thinking on the subject, I decided to write a short paper about it. Hopefully, this is useful to others, as well. Anyway, here [...]

Updates to the FA website

We’ve had reports of difficulties adding comments to the Blog items. Our webmaster fixed a problem with the site, so all should be good now. Also, we’ve updated the site to provide an RSS feed. Subscribe now so that you won’t miss any developments.
If you are running Internet Explorer 7, the default [...]

Look who stopped in!

We were making such a racket that Ken stopped by to see what was going on.

Some subs

On the left is a 15″ direct radiator subwoofer. On the right is an 18″ bass horn. This is version 2.0 of the bass horn. Now we just need to finish the driver for it …

Things are starting to get interesting

We’ve been playing around with some new ideas to see how well they’ll work. Here is a large coax system intended to provide high sensitivity (and SPL) in a completely horn-loaded design. Early results are promising.

Dave’s checking up on the basics of sound propagation

Dave rigged up this test to confirm that sound waves won’t propagate in a vacuum.

Seen in Vegas

While attending the InfoComm exhibition in Las Vegas, we got a chance to hang with some old pals. We ran into Sandy “Sheldon” Macdonald and Madame Heather Vosburg at Caesar’s Palace.