Arvus International Limited
20th July 2024
               ​​​

Our new product, the H1-D, was launched with a limited Beta pricing offer in November last year. Interest in this product has been significant across many sectors, which is important to us as it is part of our long-term strategy for growth.

The H1-D is an innovative and leading-edge hardware/software platform that will be used as the basis for many follow-up products. Thus, getting this product technically stable, performant, and reliable before we ship has been critical to our credibility as a commercial audio solution provider.

Our capable engineers and manufacturing partners were confident we could ship these Beta devices in Q1 this year. However, some challenges in primary hardware supply delayed shipping much longer than anticipated.

The H1-D is built on a newly developed ADI platform that utilizes the power of both the SHARC DSP and ARM CPU cores. These SoCs finally arrived in mid-June. Since then, the team has been working tirelessly on final integration and testing.

Though we had all primary codecs working, our testing revealed that the critically important Dolby® family codecs were running in demo mode, even though we had all licenses in place.

This last major technical issue bottlenecked our ability to ship all the completed units in June, as we had promised our Beta clients back in April. However, by working closely with the ADI engineers, the issue has been successfully resolved. :-)

We are now in the final testing and QC mode and are confident that the H1-D will be available from September, with the Beta units shipping from early/mid-August.

We have a comprehensive software stack planned for the H1-D, with many partnerships established but as performance stability is paramount for us, the plan is to ship all initial units with a limited yet robust Dolby® / DTS® / Dante® / AES67 stack, with other codecs (AURO-3D, 360 Reality Audio, and MPEG-H, etc.) available in firmware updates in the following weeks/months.

Our system for firmware updating has been well tested and performs well. Once these first units are shipped, we expect to supply regular updates expanding capacity and performance.

As I'm sure many of you will appreciate, manufacturing a new product with newly developed chipsets, hardware, and software can be a 'technical journey' to put it mildly. The whole Arvus team has been committed to this product, and we genuinely value the patience and support from every Beta client and all of you "customers in waiting."

I would like to personally thank all the Beta clients who, for a range of reasons, needed a refund or to change their order to the H2-4D. All of you have been kind and communicated with understanding, and we look forward to doing further business with you in the future.

Arvus is now into its 5th decade, and yet I am still surprised and reminded of how much of an honor it is to work in such a passion-filled industry of good people. The Arvus team is excited to work with you all and to continue to develop cool products that are used across the audio realm.

Over the coming months at Arvus you will notice a shift in our branding, communication style, website, and overall feel. This evolution is necessary to support the additions to the digital product range and the new audio market sectors we will be entering.

Lastly, though 2024 has not gone exactly as we planned, the continued development of our upcoming products has progressed well. We have some truly unique analog and digital audio solutions that we are excited to share in the coming months, but for now, our focus is on the H1-D and having you all thrilled with its performance.

Kind regards,

Matthew Simmons
CEO - Founder