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Wheatstone Corporation

Wheatstone Corporation is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Wheatstone Corporation rather than just read about it. In short: Wheatstone Corporation is an American company that produces digital and analog professional audio equipment for broadcast radio, television, and new media. Products include audio consoles, Audio over IP (AoIP) audio networking, audio processing, audio recording and editing, and custom furniture.

Key takeaways

Wheatstone Corporation belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Wheatstone Corporation to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Wheatstone Corporation from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Wheatstone Corporation is an American company that produces digital and analog professional audio equipment for broadcast radio, television, and new media. Products include audio consoles, Audio over IP (AoIP) audio networking, audio processing, audio recording and editing, and custom furniture. The corporation also does business under the brand names Audioarts Engineering, Pacific Research & Engineering, and VoxPro.

Founder Gary Snow’s interest in audio came early: “By age 12, I was running a neighborhood radio and TV repair shop. I built my first stereo system at 15 and then moved on to guitar amps and loudspeaker enclosures,” Snow said. After high school, Gary took a job repairing amplifiers and special effects devices while attending Onondaga Community College in Syracuse, New York, where he majored in electrical engineering. Snow’s career then progressed to larger companies, where he engaged in more sophisticated high fidelity repair and installations. Gary explained, “I was sent to KLH, McIntosh Laboratories, and the Allen Organ Company for further technical training. In 1971, I was offered employment at Theatre Sound Inc. in New Haven, Connecticut, where I expanded into electronic circuit design, and large system design and installation.” After some encouragement by friends, he produced a "for sale" product in 1974. Snow chose the name "Audioarts" for his nascent company. Snow is the recipient of three Industry Innovator awards announced by trade publications in 2017.

History Wheatstone Corporation was founded as Audioarts Engineering in 1974. and was incorporated under its current name in 1981. Originally founded in Bethany, Connecticut, the company moved twice, first to Syracuse, New York in 1986, then to its present location just outside New Bern, North Carolina in 1998. The company's first product was a simple disco mixer designed by the founder. In the years that followed, Audioarts designed and sold outboard equipment for the recording industry, including one of the earliest parametric equalizers. In 1976 its first console, the Audioarts 2000, was introduced. In 1981, working under the internal project name "Wheatstone," Audioarts developed a very full-featured sound reinforcement console. Partly due to the success of this console, the company subsequently incorporated as Wheatstone Corporation.

Brands In addition to Wheatstone, the corporation also markets products under the following brand names:

Audioarts Engineering is Wheatstone's brand of standalone analog radio consoles. Audioarts was the original name of the corporation. Pacific Research & Engineering (PR&E) is a brand of digital audio consoles for radio. The brand was acquired in February 2017 from GatesAir, and the brand has been previously marketed by Harris Corporation. VoxPro is Wheatstone's digital audio recording, playout, and editing system. The brand was acquired in 2015.

Notable Products WheatNet-IP is an Audio over IP (AoIP) network with applications in broadcast radio, television, and other applications. It provides routing and distribution of audio and logic. VoxPro is a widely used digital recording and editing system optimized for live radio use. It allows simple and rapid editing of telephone calls, interviews, and other content. Wheatstone Processing is a line of processing equipment designed to optimize the on-air sound of broadcast and streaming radio. Wheatstone also manufactures equipment for processing of individual microphones and external feeds. Networked Control Surfaces include consoles connected to the audio network via Ethernet. Wheatstone markets a range of these for both radio and television audio use.

References

External links Wheatstone Corporation Web Site

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Wheatstone Corporation

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Wheatstone Corporation claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Wheatstone Corporation before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Wheatstone Corporation ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Wheatstone Corporation

In research: Wheatstone Corporation appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Wheatstone Corporation in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Wheatstone Corporation is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Audio equipment manufacturers of the United States, Broadcast engineering, Companies based in North Carolina, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Wheatstone Corporation outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Wheatstone Corporation in 20 minutes

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Frequently asked questions

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Why does Wheatstone Corporation matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Wheatstone Corporation?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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