AURUS as a desktop version or with easily removable legs is the perfect tour companion. Thanks to its compact size and low weight, AURUS guarantees ultra-short set-up times, saving time and money.

These characteristics as well as the hot-swap capabilities of all hardware elements, full redundancy up to double optical lines, low power consumption, and thus low heat dissipation make AURUS highly suitable for OB-van installation, as well.

Optimum functionality and flexibility with outstanding audio quality are ensured by features including the following:

• True multichannel processing (parallel mixdown to 5.1 and stereo formats, mixdown formats up to 7.1)
• Various types of dynamic automation
• Complete N-1 matrix
• VCA-group emulation
• Integrated intercom subscriber unit
  
  

Users, especially, from the broadcasting and theatre fields will appreciate the fact that two full-fledged AURUS consoles with distinct project management can share the same audio network. This enables the live sound for one event to be mixed while recording a different event at the same time. AURUS can also be operated in parallel mode.

 

The meter bridges constructed with precision hires TFT colour displays that can be switched between a variety of metering modes. Further, the displays are used for a detailed audio-parameter view and for console configuration.

AURUS fully integrates with the NEXUS STAR router. Therefore ARUS has direct access to desirable NEXUS features such as outstanding converters, the diversity of digital formats, and the extensive application opportunities afforded by a digital audio network. If all this is insufficient, multiple AURUS consoles can coexist within a single NEXUS network.

iF product design award

In 2006, AURUS was awarded with the Golden iF Statuette in the consumer electronics/telecommunications category for outstanding design achievement. After the CANTUS in 1997, this is the second time that a console by Stage Tec has received this coveted award. As with the CANTUS, AURUS product design was developed by Arno Schünemann from Schünemann DesignSolutions, Berlin.

Decisive aspects included the design quality, workmanship, choice of materials, degree of innovation, environmental friendliness, functionality, ergonomics, visualisation of use, safety, and brand value/branding.

The 20 jurors – recognised design experts from all over the world - judged almost 2,000 products from 37 countries in a number of categories. The iF product design award is awarded every year by the iF Industrie Forum Design Hannover. Since its inauguration in 1954, the award has become a major international award for quality design.