Arc Audio – Ubiquitous Reference Standard Car Audio
Since its conception last century Arc Audio has evolved from a niche supplier to an internationally recognised leader in innovative audio products. Featuring an engineering team without peer, it now delivers its award-winning products to more than fifty countries worldwide. To Arc Audio the monika Made in America is more than just a designation of origin; it's a promise of quality that everyone at Arc Audio remains committed to. Whether it be car, bike, boat or lifestyle related audio; years of experience and acquired technical acumen is conducive to components capable of reproducing acoustics as authentically as possible, thus optimising your sonic experience and enjoyment ever further.

DSP Amplifiers Series – Spectacular Processing Teamed With Awesome Firepower
When it comes to fusing a comprehensive digital sound processor together with a powerful amplifier, there're few companies that possess the technical acumen required to achieve the feat successfully. If however you're dealing with US born and bred Arc Audio, then you're not only talking about a company more than able pull it off; you're in fact looking at a product range against which many others are measured. For Arc Audio's DSP Amplifiers series units are absolutely dux of their class.

Design Ideologies
Following in the footsteps of Arc Audio’s PS8-50 DSP amplifier was always going to be a tough act for any product engineer. Yet the engineers at Arc Audio have taken the evolutionary step in engineering technology, in-house design, overall sound quality and performance with the Blackbird DSP Amplifier.

Striving For Betterment
Arc Audio engineers are always striving to get better at what they do. Whether it’s uncovering a bit more grunt, reducing annoying sound distortions or simply enjoying endless hours of music; these astute engineers are on the lookout for that perfect balance of amazing sound and pure imagination. The reason Arc Audio products stand out as premium is because it has invested time and effort aplenty into refining every single aspect of its products.

Design Features
The rich heritage of this astute and masterful designer, together with its ever-increasing technical acumen; is conducive to these components featuring a vast array of impressive design ideologies incorporating the latest technological advancements. Let’s expound but a few below.

Install Friendly Chassis
The Blackbird comes in an OEM-location, installation-friendly chassis design, sized the exact same as its predecessor the PS8-50. Equipped with all the latest advancements, features and acoustically transparent benefits of Arc Audio’s Pro Series DSP platform; the Blackbird will easily fit under a seat or in a storage compartment of almost any vehicle. Capable of over 1,000 Watts of combined power across eight channels of bridgeable amplifier speaker outputs; the Blackbird delivers between 75W – 250W of power per channel, depending on your configuration. As with all Arc Audio amplifier models these power ratings are continuous power ratings, i.e. real music power ratings; and are conservatively rated assuring you get more power than the published rating.

Expandability Aplenty
Additional advancements on the Arc Audio Blackbird include four dedicated DSP-controlled RCA outputs capable of up to 8 V output each, for a total of 12 channels of pro series DSP control. These additional RCA outputs offer users and installers the ability to add additional amplifiers with dedicated DSP control without taking away any tuning control from the Blackbird’s primary eight amplifier outputs.

Exquisite Interfacing
The Blackbird features optimum design for the most discriminating audiophiles building a complete aftermarket system, as it offers one of the most extensive and finite tuning feature-sets; tied in with one of the largest built-in catalogs of hardware options designed for OEM-integration-based systems on vehicles where removing the stock radio is simply not an option. Adding on to the list of features, the Blackbird is also equipped with iDATA Maestro OEM Integration technology. Maestro compatibility ensures direct plug-and-play OEM integration with thousands of vehicles, giving you the flexibility of a fully customizable audio system while retaining all the OEM features and operations that you have become accustomed to.

Powerful Tuning Suite
DSP power and tuning you want? The Blackbird has it covered. The all new 12 channel pro series DSP platform in the Blackbird is capable of processing audio streams up to 96kHz at 32-bit, thus raising the bar on what can be achieved in high-end audiophile and OEM integration audio systems. The new DSP features 444 bands of one-third octave or parametric equalization, with adjustments up to +20 dB /-24 dB per band in 1/10th dB increments, by either individual band / global / mix adjustments. The pro series DSP also features completely assignable first and second order all-pass filters, shelving filters, output signal delay up to 30 ms per channel, output phase 0 / 180 degrees per channel, input and advanced output signal mixers, output trim controls and one of the most extensive selections of crossover damping types and mixed slopes available of any processor in the 12 V market.

Simply put, prepare for the Blackbird to redefine the industry standard for all-in-one, compact amplifier / DSP technology.

Electrical Specifications
– Nominal configuration: eight channel class D amplifier with twelve channel processor
– Continuous power @ 4 Ohms: 8 x 75 Watts
– Continuous power @ 2 Ohms: 8 x 125 Watts
– Continuous bridged power @ 4 Ohms: 4 x 250 Watts
– Frequency response: 10 Hz – 30000 Hz
– Total harmonic distortion: 0.004 %
– Damping factor: 100
– Signal-to-noise ratio: 108 dB

Physical Specifications
– Length: 262.9 mm
– Width: 152.4 mm
– Height: 50.8 mm
– Weight: 4.1 kg

Documentation
– Software download
– User manual

Important Disclaimers
Given the dynamic nature of electronics industries these days; below are listed some very important specifics you need to be aware of.

Brand Authorization And Stock Sourcing
We are a fully authorised Australian dealer of this brand and all stock is sourced through legitimate channels. It therefore enjoys full Australian warranty, backing and support.

Pricing Structure
Whilst we endeavor to offer the best price possible, we ask that if you do find a better price elsewhere from an authorised dealer; please contact us. Also be aware that we regularly conduct group buys and sales, therefore pricing can sometimes be subject to change without notice.

Stock Structure
Being a dynamic store is conducive to our inventory constantly changing. We list only a small portion of our stable online, usually products most popular. Aside from these we also stock numerous other variants and configurations of these products, hence if you don’t see what you’re after please contact us.

Shipping
All our products are shipped with registered and insured postage. Upon ordering you’ll be issued with a receipt, a consignment note via which you can track your order, and we’ll also SMS you photos of the package for identification purposes.

Technical support
This last one we cannot emphasise enough! Please contact us if you require any further information or assistance with the setup and use of this product, especially pertaining to aspects more technical. As we want you to get the very best from this product.