Stealth Acoustics,a producer of invisible speaker technologies for custom installation and commercial applications, announced today full release shipping of StingRay?, the world's first, completely sealed, outdoor speaker, which sets a new standard for high-fidelity audio quality, style and long-lasting reliability.
"When we first demonstrated the StingRay's unique environmental and performance characteristics to the CEDIA channel and then again to the professional market at ISE in Europe last month, we received tremendous response from dealers and integrators to the product's sound quality and near hemispherical sound field" says Steve Olszewski, Vice President of Stealth Acoustics. "This new environmental speaker delivers exceptional quality audio from an attractively designed yet fully sealed unit which provides the perfect water and environmentally-resistant solution. Traditional speakers can easily fall victim to the elements, breaking down, corroding and failing over time, and the StingRay fixes those problems."
StingRaytm Obtains IEC IP-68 Rating
Stealth also announced successful completion of IEC standard Ingress Protection (IP) rating testing for the StingRay. IP ratings certify the resistance of a product to dust and water intrusion. The Stingray obtained a rating of IP-68 which exceeds the IEC standardized category maximum of IP-67.
"An IP rating of 67 is the top standard rating, meaning the speaker is fully dust proof and waterproof down to 1meter depth for 30 minutes. Beyond that, a manufacturer can specify a more strident testing metric to receive a higher rating. In this case, we specified the water test to be for 64 hours at 1 meter depth. We achieved this goal and now have perhaps the only speaker with an IP-68 rating." continued Olszewski. "We've known all along, that no dust or water gets into our Stingray and that only hi-fidelity sound gets out, now we can share IEC codified metrics with engineers and consultants on our environmental durability."
