RTW Upgrades Digital Monitor

A company with over 30 years of experience in the development, manufacturing, and marketing of advanced sound studio technology, RTW, has upgraded an important piece of its successful professional sound equipment.
The DigitalMonitor 10500X-Plus, is already described as a high-performance, cost-effective display system for monitoring digital stereo audio signals, and has now been enhanced with several new features, including a new hardware platform providing an integrated loudness display in compliance with ITU guideline BS.1771.
Further enhancements include a new full-screen mode that enables an expanded display showing the individual instruments being used, as well as the Stereo Sound Analyzer, a stereo version of the Surround Sound Analyzer found in the SurroundMonitor and SurroundControl product lines from RTW.
The RTW DigitalMonitor 10500X-PLUS is part of RTW's new Loudness Family product line featuring easy-to-use solutions for monitoring the loudness of stereo, multi-channel, and surround signals in a wide range of applications.
A reliable and standardized method for evaluating program loudness is essential to prevent abrupt changes in volume between different program segments in radio and television broadcasts.
The RTW DigitalMonitor 10500X-PLUS features integrated ITU BS.1771-compliant loudness measurement, which can be selected as an alternative to the usual peakmeter bar graphs. Pre-sets enable the user to switch between the two modes at any time. Selection of the new mode activates an ITU-compliant scale for the loudness display in the program meter area (formerly the peakmeter) calibrated in dB LU (loudness units) or LKFS from -21 up to +9.
The display provides two bar graphs for the individual channels and two additional bar graphs showing the summed-up total loudness of the individual signals, the integrated value with a dynamical time window, and the result of a long-time integration over the last seven days or more. Any two of these three options can be displayed at the same time.
Another new feature is the full-screen mode for the Multi-Instrument 1 display. In normal operation, the display is split into three sections that might show, for example, the peakmeter, the vectorscope, and AES status data. Alternatively, the vectorscope can be displayed full-screen.
The new full-screen display is said to be welcome addition for users who already have high-quality bar graph displays on the audio console or elsewhere.
(BMcC)