The Wireless Speaker and Audio (WiSA) Association and the Association of Loudspeaker Manufacturing and Acoustics International (ALMA) have signed membership agreements in each other’s organizations.
ALMA International and the WiSA Association are both dedicated to the advancement and growth of the loudspeaker industry while focusing on different yet complementary areas of technology. The relationship will serve to address those common interests such as the requirements for designing and manufacturing high-resolution digital audio.
The WiSA Association delivered the industry’s first and only interoperability and compliance test specification (CTS) for ensuring the quality of the wireless link between transmitting devices such as, HDTVs, AVRs, DVD/Blu-ray players, gaming consoles, set-top boxes and receiving devices like speakers and subwoofers. WiSA-compliant systems deliver cinema quality sound with 24bit, up to 96 KHz uncompressed, interference-free audio. ALMA International, in its 50-plus year history has set numerous standards addressing loudspeaker design, components, performance and testing.
“There is a great deal of synergy in our two associations,” said ALMA association manager, Barry Vogel. “ALMA and WiSA are both dedicated to the loudspeaker industry, but we come at it from different angles. We look forward to exploring areas of mutual interest and benefit to our memberships, several of whom are members of both organizations.”
“As the leader in the wireless high-resolution audio category, one of our objectives is to engage with other standards bodies and organizations that work on similar issues affecting our members as well as set the direction for the industry,” said Jim Venable, president of the WiSA Association. “We are excited to partner with ALMA, an organization who, throughout its long history, has been setting standards for the loudspeaker market.”
