Transparent Audio's handsome building is located on 10 acres of woodland in an office and industrial park area of Saco, on the beautiful coast of southern Maine. Transparent is particularly proud that in the year of its completion, our building received the "Best of Manufacturing Category" award from Varco-Pruden Buildings. The building encompasses nearly 19,000 square feet of warehouse, manufacturing, design, laboratory, and office space.

Visitors enter the building from a large door to the right of this picture. The entrance to the Music and Film Studio is located at the left, beyond the desks. Amy, Demos and Sabrina work in this light-filled space, at the hub of all the office activities. Amy manages export accounts and inventory, provides customer and dealer service, and is a marketing assistant. Demos provides customer and dealer service. Sabrina is responsible for accounting and data management, and also provides customer and dealer service.
Transparent's state-of the-art 13,000 cubic foot Music and Film Studio is completely isolated within the larger building. Transparent's significant investment in this studio facility and the component systems within has paved the way for more and better interface products for home and professional music and film applications, with many more to come.

The room's concrete floor has its own footings to support walls and ceiling, which weigh approximately 10 tons. The concrete floor of the room has been physically decoupled from the rest of the building. The walls of the internally isolated room are constructed with five layers of 5/8-inch drywall. Inside this second "isolation chamber" is a custom designed framework which supports a massive set of RPG absorption and diffuser panels, each specifically selected for its position within the listening environment.

The Transparent studio also has a dedicated, whisper quiet heating and air conditioning system. The room's lighting has a totally separate AC source from the room's impressive power station for audio and video equipment. Each audio and video component has its own circuit. The AC includes four dedicated, 220 volt, 40 amp circuits for amplification alone, and sufficient dedicated AC lines for all other future needs.
To continue developing the most flexible and accurate components for all high performance audio, video, and power applications, the Transparent studio houses a wide range of the best audio and video components available. To this end, Transparent's audio paths include components from Audio Research Corporation, Ayre, Classe, Conrad-Johnson, DCS, Jeff Rowland, Krell, Mark Levinson, Meridian, Rotel, T+A, Theta, VTL, Wadia, and many others. We are currently using speakers from ATC, Aerial, B&W, Genelec, Magnepan, Martin Logan, Monitor Audio, Revel, Rockport, Sonus Faber, Thiel, and Wilson Audio.

Our reference video system includes a Vidikron Vision One Projector, Stewart Studiotek 130 Film Screen, Snell & Wilcox Video Interpolator Gold II and Meridian 800 DVD player. In addition to this system we own a wide variety of video components from Denon, Faroudja, Mitsubishi, Pioneer, Runco and Sony.

A Crestron Home Automation System controls lighting, audio, and video operations.

Transparent is dedicated to continue adding products to this impressive list to keep pace with the changing interface needs of the home entertainment industry.

Power conditioning, power cords, and analog, digital, and video cabling in the music and film studio is, of course, all Transparent.

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