The HEDD Bridge – Paving the Way toward Digital Connectivity

Today, a number of digital protocols have become established
constants in various audio sectors. While they certainly exhibit
different advantages, they all essentially focus on the transportation
of audio signals. In order to secure an ideal – future-oriented, safe,
and flexible – integration of our HEDD studio monitors
in digitally based work-spaces, we developed our very own modular
input-card system, the HEDD Bridge. The HEDD Bridge was inspired by the
rather simple and yet absolutely vital idea that our speakers should
feature a freely configurable system that, being located on the back
panel of each monitor, allows for the integration of a digital audio
protocol.
The diverse range of our HEDD Bridge modules ensures that we can
provide solutions for many platforms. At the moment, we offer modules
that can integrate AES3/EBU as well as modules that can – and this is
unheard of – read Audio-over-IP
protocols such as Dante and Ravenna Network/AES67 (in the course of
2016, we will in addition introduce input-cards that can integrate USB2
and Wireless). Not unlike many other renowned manufacturers in the
professional audio sector, we are convinced that Ethernet-based
multi-channel systems are the future of the studio, live music, and
installation sector. While Audio-over-IP has by now become more and
more prominent in mix-down, interface, and microphone technologies, this
development has yet to reach the level of studio monitors. The HEDD
Bridge is the first system to close this gap.