AXYS^® is a brand from Duran Audio, a company founded in 1981 by Gerrit Duran.

From the outset, AXYS^® was conceived as not only a superbly engineered range of professional audio products but as a series of innovative solutions to real-life electro acoustical problems – such as poor intelligibility in voice evacuation systems and unpleasant distortion in music reproduction.

Duran Audio founder and president Gerrit Duran.
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Many of the AXYS^® technologies were so advanced when the Duran Audio R&D team first developed them, some loudspeaker manufacturers were a little skeptical. After all, actively controlled loudspeaker systems seemed a bit like science fiction 24 years ago – when a lot of the ‘leading edge’ PA had grown from the cinema systems of the 1950s.

But by 1994, the world’s first installed sound system using Digital Directivity Control (DDC) to minimise sound reflections went into the Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam. ‘Science fiction’ had become science fact.

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Since then, AXYS^® solutions and technologies have been widely accepted at an academic level and extensively proven in installations throughout the world.

They are not – and can never be – ‘the cheapest’ but they are designed to deliver continuous performance for decades in even the most mission-critical situations. Hence AXYS^® engineering offers unparalleled peace of mind, as well as excellent long-term return on investment.

Dr Evert Start, of Duran Audio, receiving the Peter Barnett Memorial Award for 2006, in recognition of his contribution to the field of electro-acoustics. Click here to learn more about the R&D team