What does everyone think of Sennheiser Spectera? It looks like a good value considering you get a single 1U 32 in, 32 out, bidirectional transceiver with wide bandwidth for wireless mics and in-ear monitors. It appears that Spectera antennas also connect via EtherCon. That's pretty cool.

22:26It is an open invitation, and we'll try and do something on the Discord, but I'll be mentioning this more later. So, Alexander, can you please go to the next question? All right, from the Show Hub question submission, this is one of my questions, which I submitted in advance days early. What does everyone think of Sennheiser Spectera? It looks like a good value considering you get a single 1U 32 in, 32 out, bidirectional transceiver with wide bandwidth for wireless mics and in-ear monitors.

23:00It appears that Spectera antennas also connect via EtherCon. That's pretty cool. And I'm sorry, I'm looking at the wrong screen. And I apologize to the back-end crew. Courtney, can you take a stab at this? Yeah, I just took a look at it. It's an interesting concept. This is a wideband FM digital, which uses a single transmitter for bidirectional in-ear monitors and wireless mic transmission.

23:28And so one receiver can handle 64 channels. That's 32 in and 32 out. And it has Dante connection on it and optional MADI connection. I'm looking at the prices here, though. So that's one thing. You have to have fairly deep pockets. A whole system is going to cost you about $30,000, $32,000, including a receiver and multiple transmitters. They're about $2,000 per pop on the transmitter or transceiver, let's call them,

24:00because they have inner monitors built into them. And then they also have a handheld here for around the same price, $2,000. And the receiver, I don't know if they unlock all 32 channels for that price. It would be interesting whether they actually have to pay, you know, you buy it with different price ranges for different unlocked number of channels. One thing I can worry about in something like this that transmits in-ear monitors and your wireless mic channel over a single body pack is I worry about things like, you know, breaking the antenna so that you lose both the microphone and the ability to tell the person that their microphone is broken.

24:42over their in-air monitors at the same time. So if they're – and this does involve software that monitors the state of the transmitter so you know what the battery level is, you know what the levels are, you can change the levels. All that on the remote control software that comes with it. It works in the 6 to 8 – the 5 and 6 megahertz band, bandwidth.

25:05And the antenna, just the antenna – what does the antenna cost? The antenna costs $1,600 just for the antenna. Here it is at Sweetwater, $1,600 for the DAD, bidirectional digital antenna on UHF. So typically those shark fins are quite a bit cheaper than that, but this is an active antenna, I assume, designed. And you might even handle up to four of these antennas

25:34off of a single transceiver so that you can place them across a stage if you're doing a big Broadway production so that you don't have very much multi-path or interference that is going to cause dropouts and things like that. So at 5 megahertz, you know, your line of sight is important. So let's just say that's what's good. Good idea to have multiple antennas out there.

26:00It does have error correction and it does, you know, have diversity, like 30-way diversity, more than just two-way diversity. So it does offer a lot of the ability to handle multipath, although you do have to probably maintain some type of line of sight. I'm still laughing at Judge Judy judging us. Ronnie? Yeah, so I was demoing this system when they launched it back in a few years back,