D2Audio Introduces SoundSuite: A New Family of Advanced Intelligent Features That Dramatically Enhance the Listening Experience

AUSTIN, Texas--Jan. 6, 2006--D2Audio, the world's only manufacturer of intelligent digital amplifiers, today announced its D2Audio(R) SoundSuite(TM) collection of advanced audio processing features, giving audio manufacturers the highest possible sound quality with psycho-acoustic enhancements that dramatically impact the consumer's listening experience in either 2-channel or multi-channel systems. The initial set of SoundSuite advanced intelligent features include:

-- D2Audio(R) WideSound(TM): An advanced two-channel image field enhancement designed to widen the sound stage

-- D2Audio(R) DeepBass(TM): A sophisticated bass enhancement using psycho-acoustics and dynamic filtering

-- D2Audio(R) AudioAlign(TM): Sound positioning for alignment with the video display

-- D2Audio(R) DigitalEQ(TM): System level speaker correction and optimizations with preset content/source voicing

In addition to AVR-class sound quality, D2Audio SoundSuite audio processing features give manufacturers the ability to deliver a scalable range of end-products with significant differentiation. Manufacturers can also eliminate additional component costs when they use SoundSuite by taking advantage of the DSP processing horsepower embedded into every D2Audio(R) Digital Audio Engine(TM) IC platform.

"The improved audio performance of our product with the addition of D2Audio SoundSuite delivers impressive performance," said Jeff Tsai, VP of marketing at Kolin Corporation. "The additional impact to the entertainment experience by turning on the SoundSuite features with our D2Audio amplifier is incredible. This marks the beginning of a whole new level of experience from a stand-alone television. We're sure our customers will be surprised and delighted with the new listening experience that Kolin TVs will now be able to deliver."

"SoundSuite brings tremendous value to televisions as well as other mainstream CE devices such as MP3 docking stations and mini hi-fi stereo products. The superior audio quality for TVs can now be on par with next generation high resolution digital video," said Brian Wong, CEO and president of D2Audio. "Our new customers' TVs take digital convergence to a new level, where the TV has swallowed the majority of the home theater system." SoundSuite-enabled products will feature the D2Audio SoundSuite logo so that customers will know they are getting the most advanced digital audio technology, features and sound quality available.

Consumer enthusiasm is expected to be high, as buyers embrace the range of new advanced intelligent features of D2Audio SoundSuite in their audio products. Those include:

--  WideSound: An advanced two-channel image field enhancement
    designed to widen the sound stage

    --  Creates listening cues giving the impression that the sound
        stage is much wider than it actually is.

    --  Delivers a compelling and immersive audio experience from
        movies to music.

--  DeepBass: A sophisticated bass enhancement using psycho-acoustics
    and dynamic filtering

    --  Delivers the perception of deep rich bass (as much as an
        octave below the physical low frequency limitation of small
        speakers

    --  Enhances bass performance by utilizing dynamic psycho-acoustic
        and filtering techniques so that even small speakers deliver a
        compelling bass response

--  AudioAlign: Sound positioning with alignment to the video display

    --  The Image Alignment portion of SoundSuite has the unique
        capability of elevating the sound field from a pair of
        non-optimally placed stereo speakers to align with the
        physical position of the video display

    --  Image Alignment corrects for incorrect speaker elevation by
        selectively shaping the frequency characteristics of the input
        signal to create the appropriate perception of image height.

    --  When combined with WideSound, AudioAlign creates a completely
        immersive sound image field.

--  DigitalEQ: System level speaker correction and optimizations
    along with preset content/source voicing

    --  D2Audio Audio Performance Lab performs a product/system level
        optimization to maximize sound quality and audio performance
        for each specific product. This optimization is incorporated
        into all of the DigitalEQ settings.

    --  Examples of preset EQ settings optimized for:

        --  Voice

        --  Music (Jazz, Country, Classical, Rock, etc.)

        --  Movie

        --  Custom (end-customer setting using 5-band parametric EQ)

        --  On-wall and off-wall room compensation is supported

The D2Audio(R) SoundSuite(TM) advanced audio signal processing firmware is exclusively for use on D2Audio Digital Audio Engine IC platforms and subassemblies intended for use in consumer electronic products such as digital televisions, premium digital audio docking stations and stereo products.

Consumer audio equipment enhanced by D2Audio(R) SoundSuite(TM) is identifiable by the D2Audio SoundSuite logo on the front of the product. New features and technology from D2Audio will be announced under the D2Audio SoundSuite brand in the future. Look for many D2Audio SoundSuite-enabled products at the Consumer Electronic Show in the D2Audio booth in South Hall 1 # 22050 this January in Las Vegas Nevada.

About D2Audio

The D2Audio Corporation, maker of the world's only intelligent digital audio amplifiers, supplies a full line of cost-efficient, powerful, multi-channel amplifier solutions with market-leading performance and superior sound quality for consumer, professional, and automotive industries. The patented D2Audio(R) Intelligent Digital Amplifier(TM) technologies, now with D2Audio(R) SoundSuite(TM), deliver an immersive audio experience on the D2Audio(R) Digital Audio Engine(TM) (DAE) IC platforms. For more information on D2Audio and its products, please visit www.d2audio.com.