Reality Technologies Australia

Braeside, Victoria

Phone: +61-3-85817638

Fax: +61-3-9587-4986

Email: info@reality-design.com.au

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Who Are we?

Reality Design Australia, and Reality Technologies Australia, are the entities launched to represent  the decades of electronic, design and audio engineering expertise of our team. With a passion for excellence in audio and sound reproduction, coupled with a genuine  desire to push forward what is widely regarded as a stagnating audio reproduction industry these companies represent the very best in sound technology today. No other company has the underlying technology to produce the quality in sound that is produced by Reality from the very largest to the best known brands. Today Reality stands on the brink of bringing a new sound paradigm to the market and we invite all those who truly wish for a better sound experience to join us.

Historically, the engineers of Reality, led by Charles Van Dongen, have had a wide range of experience and combined in 2008 to develop the Whise HA-1500 loudspeaker, a speaker that was originally shown in 2007 at the CES in Las Vegas, where it won an award for Design Innovation in Technology. The speaker itself a fully powered hybrid electrostatic, with unrivalled clarity and detail and is considered by some of the world great golden ears to be the best loudspeaker on earth and indeed  has been tested as such.

The challenge for these engineers was to deliver an even better sound in the future at lower cost and make it available to all.

The Goal

Reality Technologies came about with the purpose of re-igniting interest in the audio market, and doing it in such a way that brings people back to the reason for music and surround in the first place – to engage and involve the audience in what they are hearing.

The Key Issues

In a review of the Hi-Fi market today the following factors are apparent and, although there are exceptions, they are a broad representation where the industry is today.

• Dolby dominates the surround sound industry, particularly the theatre/DVD market, with its  5.1 system with all its faults. No hardware manufacturer enjoys the same level of dominance.
• Multiple encode/decode formats exist outside Dolby and do enhance the market but on the downside are adding significant confusion.
• In music Stereo is still the key standard.
• Standalone speakers have, in the main, become a cube of wood with a few cone drivers and perhaps a horn driver.  Cone speakers have not enjoyed any leap in performance for many years and price is usually a fair predictor of performance.   
• A sub-woofer is another wooden box but performance has been improved.
• Most audio development companies seem to be announcing or releasing more channels as a means of saying they have improved the sound stage e.g. Dolby 7.1 . These are not selling to the broad market as they are expensive, complicated and impractical whilst offering minimal improvement.   
• There is no standard for genuine three dimensional audio to go with and enhance 3D Vision.

To put it plainly, there is little that is new in audio, just updates and upgrades.

Reality changes this. We have developed new audio technologies that inject a breath of life back into the Audio side of Audio/Visual, and will rekindle the excitement and passion that used to exist.

Total Perspective

A system of creating a consistent stereo, surround or virtual surround audio image in all positions within a room, scalable to n-channels, and free of the constraints of a centre channel.

Involve Audio

A 4/5 : 2: 4/5 channel to surround matrix encode / decode system with super high accuracy and linearity, and the ability to extract ambient, intentional and unintentional surround information from existing stereo signals.

Involve 3D

Practical and real 3D audio from four channels, using 8 speakers .  This technology ultimately leads to a fully spherical audio presentation that is accurate for every person in the audience.

T.S.S Virtual

An even, encompassing surround experience using only two speakers.

Use the menus above for more information on each of these technologies, or to arrange a demonstration use the contact form or use the information below. We are currently based in Braeside, Victoria – Australia.