Rockford Corporation will introduce its new product lines for 2003, for the mobile, professional, and home theater audio markets, at the CES Show in Las Vegas on January 9-12.
Gary Suttle, president and chief executive officer commented, “This should be a very exciting show for us. We have five great mobile audio brands introducing many new products. We have been awarded five Innovations 2003 Design and Engineering Honoree Awards and one Mobile Audio Best of Honoree Award for our new Omnifi product co-designed by Rockford Fosgate and SimpleDevices. We are very proud to introduce Omnifi, which we believe offers the next generation of connected consumer electronics providing unsurpassed performance and convenience. Simply explained, Omnifi uses the popular Wi-Fi home-networking technology to stream digital music from the PC to the home stereo and to deliver digital music and information to a hard-drive based entertainment system in the car.”
Mr. Suttle, continued, “We are also very pleased to be introducing new home theater products at the show for Fosgate Audionics, MB Quart and NHT. NHT is our most recently acquired brand for home theater and we are excited to have it as part of our family of brands. With superior electronics products from Fosgate Audionics and outstanding speaker products from MB Quart and NHT, we believe we should see a lot of momentum in our home theater lines this year.”
About Rockford
Rockford is a designer, manufacturer and distributor of high-performance audio systems for the mobile, professional, and home theater audio markets. Rockford’s mobile audio products are marketed under the Rockford Fosgate, Lightning Audio, MB Quart and Q-Logic brand names. Rockford’s home theater products are marketed under the Fosgate Audionics, MB Quart and NHT brand names. Rockford recently completed an investment in SimpleDevices, which licenses its standards-based SimpleWareT and SimpleMedia ServicesT software to consumer electronics, PC, automotive and network equipment OEMs.
The BA1000 is a full-featured portable hard drive player with a built-in MP3 encoder for in-line stereo recording directly from a cassette, CD or album, without a PC. Combined with FM radio and voice recording capabilities, it offers the first customizable horizontal or vertical LCD with white backlight. The BA1000 includes USB 2.0 technology to transfer files up to 40 times quicker than standard USB 1.0 port connections.
The Karat L 800 DC incorporates many of the engineering principles developed for the company’s flagship Reference 2 DC speaker. The L 800 DC features the side-firing woofer and elegant slim face that distinguishes the Karat family, providing for superior upper-frequency dispersion and off-axis imaging.