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AIR Studios Sound Tuning

The AIR Studios logo on a Pioneer product means we have been involved in the design since the prototype. It is a guarantee that some of the best 'ears' in the world have approved the product. There are two levels of certification; Monitor Reference for critical applications and Monitor for less critical applications.

Philosophy

AIR's experience in surround film scoring and pure stereo music recording means we have some strong ideas about designing a home theatre amplifier.

Stereo must sound excellent and multi-channel should be just as good. This requires identical, independent, discrete power amps for each channel.
No unnecessary digital processing. 'Direct' modes that genuinely provide as clean a signal path as possible.
Mixing room monitors are aligned for correct distance, SPL and frequency response. Such adjustments are required at home without recourse to a professional acoustician.

Pioneer met and exceeded these requirements with Discrete Output A.D.E MOSFET, Direct Construction and Advanced MCACC.

Development

Listening tests are conducted in our control rooms (usually Studio 3) by a panel of recording, mixing and technical engineers at each stage of development. Pioneer design engineers perform on-site modifications if necessary. When the final listening tests are complete and we are happy with sonic performance the pre-production prototype is shipped back to Japan. It is stripped and provides the build list for all production models which are thus replicas of the products approved at AIR.

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