History

The XTA storyFrom humblest beginnings in a spare room in Worcestershire, to the million pound facility of the present, the XTA story is far from ordinary.
Have a read through our history and find out how it all began, with a mic splitter, right up to the present day with our range state of the art digital signal processing.

The Start

Andrew Grayland and John Austin former R&D manager and one of the Technical Directors of Klark Teknik started XTA in 1992. Having overseen many of the benchmark products produced by KT, both Andrew and John felt that DSP (digital signal processing) technology could find a home at the heart of PA systems. At this time DSP was often disregarded because of its audio quality, but Andrew and John felt with the right algorithms and using 32-bit processing coefficients instead of 24-bit – what the majority of DSP designs were using – digital equipment could be designed that would sound very pure and clear.