EAW Anya Installation guide
Introducing Anya
Anya is the most technologically advanced sound system ever created. She is
so dierent from every other sound system that we shouldn’t call her a “sound
system”. In fact, she is not.
Anya is a concept – a whole new way to deliver sound reinforcement.
Anya is born from more than 15 years of research into technology that shapes and directs large-scale
audio output. Anya adapts total array performance to deliver stunningly uniform high SPL coverage with
such precision that the room eectively disappears. We call this Adaptive Performance™.
With Anya, you never have a reection from a large wall because she makes it as if there are no walls.
There is no ceiling, no roof, no nearby houses. With in-situ renements, there are no balcony faces.
Nor are there any cheap seats. Anya so precisely crafts performance that virtually every location receives
powerful, full frequency response. Sculpt the sound beam to reach the top of the farthest balcony, but not
the wall just above it. Anya lets you be that exact.
Yet for all her capabilities, Anya is simple and intuitive. No complicated array angle, no addressing
individual loudspeakers. Just tell Anya where you want the sound; she’ll do the rest.
With the room eliminated, all that remains is a dened coverage area where the people that bought
the tickets will experience what they came to experience – the artist.
Anya sees everything.
Anya can cover nearly the entire 180 degree vertical plane. A single column covers 70 degrees horizontally
and columns array in 60 degree increments. Simply add columns up to 360 degrees. Adaptive Performance
allows Anya to control the horizontal coverage of multi-column arrays.
Anya adapts.
Anya can recongure array response in situ in a matter of seconds. No more dropping rigs to recongure
angles or waiting for processors to update. Should a fault occur, she can diagnose it and automatically
adapt to compensate. With your permission, of course.
Anya is complete.
Simple, reliable rigging connects modules. Fly bars lock together for easy multi-column hangs.
Precongured cables use standard connectors. Modules ride up to 4-high on a caster pallet with
dimensions that work in standard truck pack congurations.
Anya is almost alive.
Anya knows what she is. Anya knows where she is. And Anya understands how best to deliver sound
in any specic situation. The more information you give her, the better she adapts.
Anya is nearly self-sucient.
Anya needs three things: AC power, network connectivity to Resolution™ software and audio signal.
Each module carries all required amplier power and signal processing.
Anya works for you.
Anya uses high-resolution Adaptive Performance™ technology to deliver custom-sculpted vertical and
horizontal coverage with idealized response at all locations. One module builds any number of unied,
multi-column, straight hung arrays. There is only one way to rig them. There are no angles. There is no “J”.
There are no side lls.
Anya is powerful.
Each module includes 14 high frequency transducers, six mid frequency transducers and dual 15-in low
frequency transducers. Horn-loading and true line source coupling maximize eciency and output.
The full width of the enclosure serves as a horn in the
horizontal plane, ensuring even horizontal coverage
and smooth integration of adjacent columns
Outer slots provide enclosure venting
for enhanced LF performance
Anya’s high frequency horn uses a proprietary
loading technology to reduce apparent source
spacing for more accurate adaptive control
Each module deploys 14 independently powered
and processed HF compression drivers
Built-in microphone for in-situ diagnostics
EAW’s Concentric Summation Array™ technology
and a new, proprietary phase plug design ensure
that two columns of three mid frequency cone
transducers sum coherently with the HF section
Slotted vents provide a degree of loading to
the dual 15-in low frequency cone transducers
and shift the apparent LF sources farther
apart, extending horizontal pattern control
to minimize the buildup of LF energy
Safe and simple bar-and-pin rigging
has only one conguration
Every aspect of Anya’s design serves to optimize acoustic performance in a
simple, intuitive, easy-to-use package. Even though she’s revolutionary,
Anya reects the classic EAW engineering values of high output,
optimized pattern control and delity to the human voice.
Touchpad controller uses
onboard batteries to report on
self-diagnostics anytime, anyplace
Deliver analog audio via XLR; deliver digital
audio via EtherCon (Dante™) or XLR (AES/EBU)
Standard connectors: Neutrik™ True1 PowerCon,
XLR, Neutrik™ EtherCon, USB A & B
Redundant dual EtherCon connections ensure
continuous network connectivity
XLR USB B & A EtherCon PowerCon
Multiple paths for both audio and digital network connectivity
An Anya module’s self-contained, eld-replaceable power and processing unit includes 22 separate
channels of signal processing and amplier power totaling nearly 10,000 watts. It also houses the
onboard testing, measurement and self-identication systems.
Infrared send/receive units on four sides
sense neighboring modules, allowing arrays
to self-identify and self-congure
Easy access handles integrated into amp module
Safe and simple bar-and-pin rigging system
Active cooling via dual intake
and single exhaust fans
ESTIMATED 23.50 in
CL TO FRONT RACK RAIL: 9.33 in
FRONT RACK RAIL TO REAR RACK RAIL: 14.00 in
NETWORK
PANEL
DISTRIBUTION
PANEL
DISTRIBUTION
PANEL
NETWORK SWITCH
NETWORK SWITCH
POWER
Custom distribution panels from Motion Labs®,
featuring robust, standard connectors for both 230
and 115 volt three-phase input. Circuit breakers feed
a consolidated, multi-pin output that connects to
precongured cabling for individual modules.
NETWORK
Custom network panels from LinkUSA®, featuring
standard network connectors for input and throughput,
high-bandwidth switches and multi-pin output that
connects to precongured cabling for individual
modules. Opt for redundant connection to 12 modules
or non-redundant connection to 24 modules.
Anya’s electrical power and signal distribution system is nearing completion,
with design sketches for the 230 volt version shown here. Each unit will supply
power for up to 12 modules and fully redundant Dante™ network for 12
modules. The rolling cases will stack or y near the array to shorten cable runs.
Each time you assemble an array, the self-aware and neighbor-sensitive modules collectively determine
their conguration and express themselves to Resolution™ software as a single unit. Based on user
specications, Resolution sends each module – in fact, each transducer – instructions to adapt total array
performance for any specied coverage area. These application proles oer a small sampling
of the possibilities.
Large indoor arena,
stage right array
This complex, multi-
level venue requires
two substantial
columns to manage the
disparate requirements.
Each array covers 120
horizontal degrees
but with varying
vertical directivity from
column to column.
Still, each array delivers
sound as a single,
integrated entity.
Coverage Area:
220’ x 280’
Broadband SPL
Range (dB):
111.1 – 104.8
Large, outdoor
amphitheater
With just 8 modules
per side, Anya covers
this very large,
steeply raked outdoor
amphitheater within
+/- 2 dB. Straight hung
single columns direct
a powerful lobe up
15° to reach the back
but rolls o smoothly
to the lower section.
Coverage Area:
300’ x 150’
Broadband SPL
Range (dB):
110.3 – 106.4
Coachella Festival
2013 (Gobi tent),
stage right array
This design for stereo
coverage points the
6-module main column
to the tent’s far corner,
covering most of the
space. The 2-module
outer column lls the
immediate neareld
and house left. The
stage left array mirrors
this performance.
Coverage Area:
200’ x 165’
Broadband SPL
Range (dB):
117.3 – 113.6
The people of EAW oer their deepest appreciation to all of our partners in the
vast network of technical manufacturing expertise that makes Anya possible.
Many of them are near us in the northeast USA, but they span the globe.
We hope we’ve done you proud.
In particular, we would like to thank LOUD Technologies CEO Mark Graham for
insisting that we produce this innovation and that we make it a beautifully-
designed product. He gave us both the space and the directive to get the job
done, and the process has improved our company in a permanent way.
Thank you, Mark, for your leadership.
Finally, EAW must again thank Dave Rat and Jon Monson of Rat Sound.
Their insights have improved this product immeasurably. On behalf of all the
roadies whose jobs you’ve made easier by focusing on the details, thank you
for showing us how it’s done.
www.eaw.com
©2013 LOUD Technologies Inc. EAW is a registered trademark of LOUD Technologies Inc in the U.S.A. and all other countries.
This device has not been authorized as required by the rules of the Federal Communications Commission.
This device is not, and may not be, oered for sale or lease, or sold or leased, until authorization is obtained.
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All rights reserved. PATENT PENDING. Products are not drawn to scale.
All terms, conditions, and specications subject to change without notice.
P/N: 2042326-2013
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