Meyer Sound #1011

Meyer Sound Laboratories is an American manufacturer of professional sound equipment, known for its self-powered loudspeaker systems for concerts, touring, installations, and cinemas. It produces line arrays, point-source loudspeakers, subwoofers, processors, electro-acoustic architecture systems (Constellation), and measurement/design tools (SIM, MAPP).

The company was founded in 1979 by John and Helen Meyer; it started out in a small industrial space in San Leandro before moving to Berkeley. Its first products were the ACD/John Meyer studio monitor and the UM-1, and in 1980 the UPA-1 loudspeaker was released with its signature trapezoidal enclosure. The SIM measurement technology was introduced in 1984, and in the mid-1990s (with the MSL-4) the company became one of the first to switch to self-powered loudspeaker systems with built-in amplification. Meyer Sound later expanded into electro-acoustic architecture (Constellation, 2006) and cinema acoustics.