Lake’s new LM 44 Digital Audio Loudspeaker Processor is being introduced at London’s PLASA show this month. Identical in many respects to the Lake LM 26, the LM 44 is distinguished primarily by a different input/output configuration.
Inputs and Outputs

The LM 44 provides four analog input and four analog outputs, in contrast to the LM 26’s 2-in/6-out configuration. In addition, the LM 44 accommodates 8-in/8-out AES3 and 4-in/8-out Dante digital audio transport. The LM 44 benefits from the latest implementation of Lake’s iconic “Mesa EQ” configuration, utilizing four Mesa modules, each with an independent input mixer and output signal processing chain.

New features include Raised Cosine Equalization, both linear phase and classic crossovers, LimiterMax peak and RMS limiters, and a maximum available delay of 2 seconds.

The LM 44 completes the LM 26’s ability to replace the previous Dolby Lake Processor’s ability to be used in various configurations, including combinations of 2×6 Contour and 4×4 Mesa EQ, by now offering both types in fixed format products that aren’t reconfigured with I/O cards, but are mixed and matched by rack-mounting and plugging XLRs, or, in the case of digital I/O, DB-25 or Cat5 connectors.