Alpine Electronics announced at CES a new digital signal processor with advanced wireless smartphone control.
The PXE-0850S is Alpine’s first new processor in six or seven years. Via Bluetooth, it can be used without a head unit for audio streaming in UTVs or other vehicles.
Users can level match and tune their car audio system via Bluetooth or a PC. On a smartphone, they get a detailed views of all inputs and outputs and a 31 band equalizer.
Users can set time correction and crossovers via smartphone over Bluetooth. They can also boost OEM audio with the DSP’s built in 25 watt 8 amplifier.
The PXE-O850S is a 6 channel processor due in March at $699.
Additional specifications:
- 6 channel high/low voltage inputs (up to 10 volts) for factory and aftermarket installations
- 24-bit Sigma-Delta D/A converter
- 32-bit floating point DSP
- High pass/low pass crossovers per channel
- Time correction; up to 20ms delay per channel
- 12 channel full range 4 volt pre-outs
- S/PDIF optical input
- Remote controller included (volume, store, store/recall, source selection)
