AKG Features WMS 60 Wireless Mic System at Summer NAMM

July 10, 1998 -- With more than 50 years of experience as the world's premier manufacturer of professional microphones for studio and stage, AKG Acoustics has now made its renowned capsule technology available to musicians everywhere with the incredibly affordable AKG WMS 60 wireless microphone system, featured at Booth #343 at the 1998 Summer NAMM Convention in Nashville.

Introduced at the 1998 Winter NAMM show in Los Angeles, the WMS 60 system offers musicians a choice of eight AKG microphone capsules and tops all competitors in its price range by providing as many as 15 separate channels of inter-modulation-free wireless operation The result is an affordable and flexible wireless system that bears the legendary sound and reliability long associated with AKG.

The WMS 60 VHF wireless microphone system offers a wealth of features, all centered around AKG's exceptional capsule technology. The system offers a modern proprietary diversity design, offering selectable frequencies on seven frequency sets and four transducer capsules that feature extended frequency responses and exceptional gain-before-feedback characteristics.

The SR 60 receiver operates in a sub-band up to 4 MHz wide between 138 MHZ and 250 MHZ. Incredibly flexible, it features both balanced and unbalanced outputs and Line/Mic switchability, allowing the AKG wireless systems to work with musical instruments, as well.

The HT 60 hand-held transmitter and PT 60 bodypack transmitter also offer a multitude of features, including a low-battery indicator, a sensitivity control and a protective cover that keeps those controls set even during the most active performances. The heart of the new AKG wireless system, however, is the microphone capsule, a technology that AKG pioneered and has maintained a leading role the world over for more than five decades.

The new AKG wireless system offers the choice of three handheld transducer capsules - the dynamic D 880, D 3800 and the condenser C 535EB - each of which are identical acoustically and mechanically to the hard-wired versions of those microphones. Transducer elements can be easily changed to allow the highest degree of sonic flexibility ever provided by a wireless microphone system. All three capsules have extended frequency responses and exceptional gain-before-feedback characteristics, as well as the legendary AKG sound quality.

Capsule options being made available for the PT bodypack version include the C417 lavalier microphone, the C419 instrument microphone, the C410 headworn microphone and the C420 headworn microphone.

"AKG has taken 50 years of experience and innovation in microphone technology and given it the freedom of wireless, all in the affordable, flexible package of the WMS 60," said Doug MacCallum, Vice President, Sales & Marketing for AKG Acoustics, U.S. "By providing a product of this quality to the musician market at such an affordable price point, AKG has set a new standard by which other wireless systems in the market will have to be judged. The AKG WMS 60 System will make all performances - from music to theater to Sunday church services - sound better."

See the AKG website at http://www.akg-acoustics.com.