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Pre-Amplifiers, and the Model 2020 Mk III Broadcast Audio Processor. A key element of all the dynamics processing products is the voltage-controlled attenuator, the Aphex VCA 1001. Another key element is Aphex' input and output circuitry, using electronic balancing techniques instead of transformers.
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Aphex started selling the professional units, and introduced two low-cost models: Type B and Type C. The Aural Exciter circuit is now licensed by several manufacturers. The so-called Big Bottom circuit was added in 1992. Later revisions of the Aphex Aural Exciter included the Model 104 Type C and
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and dynamics processor to compress and delay incoming low-frequency information. The process is reverse amplitude dependent, meaning that more is applied as the input level drops and less as the signal gets hotter. Together the dynamics processor and time delay create sustained
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Functionally similar units from competing manufacturers are generically known either as 'psychoacoustic processors' or more commonly just as 'enhancers'. Broadly comparable products are now available from BBE, Joemeek, SPL, and
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Today, Aphex is focused on its latest Exciter and Big Bottom processing and Compellor compression technologies, with new patents pending and new products in the line. Key among these are a series of USB connected products:
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In late 2000, Aphex introduced a digital signal transport product, the Anaconda 64-Channel Bidirectional Digital Snake.
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Aphex continues to expand its licensing activities and has contracts with a variety of audio, music and other OEMs.
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Aphex has also released several audio effects apps that apply the Aphex processing to digital music in iTunes.
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Formerly Aphex Systems, the company was acquired in mid-2015 by Freedman Electronics, parent company of
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Type C2 units. The most recent version is the Model EXCITER Aural Exciter and Optical Big Bottom.
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that are perceived as being louder yet do not noticeably increase peak output.
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citer", in reference to its original product, the Aphex
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