Company Background - With products designed and backed by over 20 years of mission-critical control, monitoring, and AV systems integration experience, Bitwise Controls is uniquely equipped to provide powerful and flexible products for the expanding commercial, industrial, educational, and residential control-systems markets. Bitwise Controls LLC was founded by veteran industry leadership in 2008 with the goal of offering innovative and reliable new products, designed, tested and manufactured in the USA.

The new Runco LightStyle LS-HB is designed to compliment bright living rooms with it's high output and beautiful form factor.
With 1080p resolution, advanced connectivity, and an architecture designed for maximum brightness, the LS-HB creates new possibilities for projection in your client's home. When combined with a Da-Lite high contrast screen, it will outperform most flat panel television displays. It creates an impressive image and allows real video experiences in a bright living, media or game room, home gyms, and bedrooms. this projector boldly lights the screen going into rooms where projection technology has not gone before.

 

It incorporates the ISF™ (Imaging Science Foundation) calibration suite for optimal performance, including ISF Day and ISF Night presets, further enhancing the flexibility of installation and use. The LS-HB features Runco's legendary internal video processing for exceptional scaling and analog-to-digital signal conversion.

 

Runco LightStyle LS-HB

The LS-HB projectors are available with Runco's CineGlide™ lens solution that enables a motorized, mechanical 2.35:1 anamorphic lens to move in front of the standard lens for perfect CinemaScope reproduction. Runco CineGlide enables the viewer to switch from 16:9 content to 2.35:1 content, without black bars on the top or side of the image, with the touch of a button.

SurgeX XN120

You can offer complete protection from surges in 4 circuits from one box if you deploy the SurgeX XN120, the perfect protection solution for multi-circuit residential AV systems where space is at a premium. This compact 120 Volt / 80 Amp unit is hardwired as a subpanel at the service panel or the equipment room and is designed to provide failsafe protection required for multiple circuits 

Engineered with professional grade Advanced Series Mode® Surge Elimination Technology and Impedance Tolerant® EMI/RFI noise filtering, the XN120 is the only NEMA enclosure protection product in the market that eliminates surges and transients that can degrade AV system performance and shorten service life. The XN120 frees up valuable rack space and eliminates the need for individual powerline conditioners. In most installations, there are panels located in each room that, until now, have needed to be protected separately. But, with the XN120, there is no need to protect each individual panel with a powerline conditioner at every site. When the panels are connected to a single circuit and fed through the XN120, the SurgeX unit will protect each panel on that circuit. There's no in wall extension cords, nor individual units to install and maintain. One XN120 circuit will protect an average of 8 panels. In addition, every outlet powered by the XN120 is protected even though there is no PLC at the rack. 

"The XN120 frees up the valuable rack space that you didn't have before," said Rick Komendera, Vice President of Sales for SurgeX. "It protects and conditions from either the equipment room, or the demarcation and acts just like separate subpanel for your AV system. There's no in wall extension cords, nor multiple individual units to maintain." 

As with all SurgeX products, the XN120 boasts Advanced Series Mode® Surge Elimination Technology and Impedance Tolerant® EMI/RFI noise filtering which eliminates all surges without the side effects that come with traditional surge suppression products. Unlike sacrificial MOV based surge protectors, the XN120 completely eliminates ALL surges up to 6,000 Volts/3000 Amps without producing disturbances that can degrade the performance and shorten the service life of an A/V system. Because of this technology, installers have the confidence that their power protection unit will actually protect the equipment they are installing and not degrade or damage it over time. 

With SurgeX A-1-1 Certified Advanced Series Mode® technology, equipment will run better, sound better, and p icture quality will improve in the blink of an eye. SurgeX has recently extended its industry leading warranty from ten to now an industry leading eleven year Connected Warranty which not only protects the SurgeX equipment, but also every device that is plugged in to a SurgeX product.
 

AMX PDU - Power Distribution Unit

We are certain you have had the call... my cable box isn't working or my satellite box is out Your only response was likely to send staff out to the client's home only to find that all that was needed was a power cycle on the box. Your cost was a bunch of man hours in both time lost and a billable hours penalty. Thankfully, there is a very cool solution.

The exciting and very innovative AMX Power Distribution Unit (PDU) now allows you to control your client's rack as well as control their room. This PDU adds this basic level of control by allowing remote reset of devices via a power cycle, reducing the need to send your valuable staff out to a customer site to reset an item in the rack.  

 

By managing power delivery, the PDU monitors energy consumption of each connected component and restricts power to any or all devices when not in use. With 8 individually monitored and controlled AC outlets, built-in 12 Volt power supply, 2 sets of 4 AxLink Bus Strips, and power monitoring for each outlet, the PDU is flexible and can reduce wasteful standby power usage. Native NetLinx control over AxLink integrates the PDU with AMX Control systems and Resource Management Suite (RMS).

 

COMMON APPLICATION
Ideal for commercial and residential installations wanting to reduce energy usage costs, minimize their carbon footprint and protect valuable electronics. With AC and AxLink power, current sensing, and available temperature monitoring, this all-in-one easily adds both convenience and a Green element to installations.

McIntosh MC601 MonoBlock

McIntosh Laboratory, a global leader in home entertainment and ultimate-quality audio for over 60 years, is proud to announce the debut of a new amplifier that brings
legendary McIntosh® performance capabilities and style together with a host of leading-edge features and extended functionality for today's digital age. The new MC601 Monoblock Amplifier, which replaces McIntosh's hugely popular MC501 amplifier, is now shipping. The MC601 joins the MC302 and MC452 in the McIntosh amplifier lineup, with new engineering advances and extended functionality.

Distinguished by its rock-solid, new larger sized chassis of mirror polished stainless steel, the MC601 features the premium cosmetic design that has always distinguished McIntosh components, including a backlit glass faceplate. The newly designed 8-inch wide True Wattmeter, featuring elegant "McIntosh Blue" LED lighting, is a special larger size last used by McIntosh on its acclaimed MC1000 amplifier. The MC601's custom machined and anodized aluminum trim handles complete the iconic McIntosh look and styling.

Among its many leading-edge feature capabilities is Power Guard, a McIntosh circuit innovation that maximizes sound quality at high power levels. Additionally, the unit's advanced "Sentry Monitor" feature provides continuous short circuit protection of the amplifier and connected loudspeakers.

In addition to its higher power rating of 600 watts, the MC601 features Thermal Track output transistors that allow for cooler, more efficient operation. Other new features that add to the MC601's performance capabilities and make it ideally suited for use in today's digital universe are specially designed McIntosh speaker binding posts, Quad Balanced circuit design for highest audio performance, and input and output jacks that allow bi or tri-amping with multiple MC601s. Notably, the MC601's extraordinary, distortion-canceling, quad-differential design consists of two complete amplifier circuits, whose outputs are combined in the unique McIntosh-crafted autoformers. Total Harmonic Distortion: 0.005% maximum from 250 milliwatts to rated 600 watt mono power output. MC601 delivers absolute transparency and musical accuracy into speaker loads of 2, 4, or 8-Ohms.

McIntosh President Charlie Randall noted: "To create the MC601 amplifier, McIntosh engineers and designers scrutinized every aspect of what has made us the world's most coveted audio manufacturer for the last 60 years - both in terms of great looks and legendary sound. The result is an amplifier of unique elegance, craftsmanship and style that delivers classic McIntosh performance, with all the power and 'audio heft' to earn it a rightful place in the McIntosh pantheon, while providing today's most discerning consumers with all the features and functionality to ensure it will deliver the very best in music reproduction excellence for many years to come."

The iNova features an 80 watt per channel amplifier, class A tube preamp, high-resolution digital- to- analog converter, class A headphone amplifier and a PURE DIGITAL iPod dock. The iNovatakes the best from the award-winning Peachtree Audio Nova integrated amplifier and improves it! The upgrades are notable if your client wants the very best from their iPod, if you want your client to have the best resolution possible for their computer audio or from their streaming devices like Apple TV, Sonos and many others now on the market.

• The USB input supports 24/96 without the need of loading external drivers.
• The coaxial and optical inputs now support bit-perfect 24/192.
• The amplifier is beefed up with the best capacitors and has punchier bass and better high-end extension.
• Peachtree Audio's Pure Digital iPod dock was added.

Ambisonic LS67SAT


The Sonance Landscape Series
LS67SAT Full-Range Loudspeaker is a true Two-way system...that is, both a high-quality woofer
and separate tweeter. They are best employed to create that extrarealistic touch that gives
extraordinary dimension to the musical experience. One could say: "These are the speakers that separate the men from the boys in the outdoor audio arena." With various unique installation
accessories, the LS67SAT can be positioned in trees, hidden in planting beds, or along walk ways. Best of all, the robust professional-grade electronics coupled with Ambisonic's proprietary Ultra-Violet (UV) resistant composite enclosures ensure years of unfettered enjoyment.

LS47SAT

Like the LS67SAT, the LS47SAT Two-Way Full Range Loudspeaker is theprimary workhorse of the Landscape Series, delivering richly-detailed audiophile quality sound. The model LS47SAT can be positioned in trees, hidden in planting beds, or concealed along walkways.

Bart LoPiccolo National Sales Manager Genelec USA

If you haven't considered Genelec as a solution for your theater designs, you may want to give a listen to Bart LoPiccolo when he is in town. He is an evangelist for the brand... with good reason - what you see with Genelec is what you get.

Bart is visiting the Omega Sales territory this week from February 1st - 4th. Genelec offers a unique opportunity to take a theater from average to spectacular. There are several foundational reasons for this.

First is the technology.

• Active Crossovers - All of the Genelec speakers use a proprietary active crossover design.
   
• Optimized Amplifiers - Genelec speaker drivers are driven directly by an amplifier designed to specifically drive the particular load.
• Protection Circuitry - Genelec speakers are protected by proprietary circuitry designed to save te speaker from accidental failure.
• Room Response Controls - All of the speakers include controls that allow the speakers to be tuned to the acoustic environment they are placed in. 
• Directivity Control Waveguide - to precisely control dispersion of their high frequency and midrange drivers the Genelec speakers use a Waveguide. This allows them to deliver the fidelity to the listener and helps ot take some of the room out of the equation.
   

These five technologies are the guiding force behind every Genelec speaker design. With this careful plan for success, it is no wonder that listeners are always surprised what a Genelec speaker sounds like.  

 

Second is the Limited Distribution of Genelec. To keep you profitable, you need to be competitive but assured that you will make a profit. Genelec is not available through distribution nor to just anyone. A client can expect to find Genelec only available through the highest quality dealers. Dealers who sell Genelec are all trained to understand the application of the Genelec products in a theater. Tuning the system is part of the installation plan.  

 

Third is the expectations of performance - Genelec systems are designed to reach the necessary SPL to achieve real performances in client homes. Each system is specified on the basis of this plan. Regardless of what size the room is that your client has, Genelec makes a system with the SPL performance to fill it.  

 

For a limited time this week we will have a complete Genelec system on display. Please feel free to schedule with your Omega Sales representative for a demonstration. You too will be a Genelec believer!