Introducing - Konos Digital
One mic.
Every beam.
Set the beam from a 60° pencil to a 300° room, aim it electronically, or form a matched stereo pair. One array, one PoE cable.
Built for film, broadcast, and live sports.
USD 1,699 MSRP · Shipping start of 2027
NAB Show Product of the Year 2023 Audio category - awarded to the original Konos. Konos Digital is the next generation.
One beamformer · Three modes
One array. Three modes.
Three modes of one 80-element array. Flip the toggle to try each.
- 4-Beam 60°–300° · front/back
Four independent pickup cones, from a tight pencil to a full room.
- Steerable 60° beam · ±90°
Aims a constant beam electronically in 15° steps, all the way to ±90°. No gimbal, no motor, no operator.
- Stereo L/R pair · ±15–50°
A matched left/right pair either side of the forward axis. You set the splay, the width of each beam and which way the pair faces.
Polar response plot, nominal design response. A single forward cone 60° wide - a narrow beam. Showing all five frequency bands.
The cone widens or tightens without steering - you’re changing how much it hears, not where it points. Each of the four beam channels faces front or back.
The plot shows one flat slice through a 3D range - nominal design response across five frequency bands, not chamber measurements. The stereo view is illustrative, not a polar response. Individual Konos Digital units may vary slightly.
Pitch coverage
You track the ball. It aims the mic.
Twelve arrays in the same positions as your current shotgun rig. Your tracking software picks the array and sends the steer angle; it aims a 60° beam there while every other array holds four-channel cover.
This demo is illustrative. Konos Digital aims its beam on a steer command through a control API; your tracking software supplies the target.
Every channel its own beam.
Konos Digital streams five channels of network audio at once: four independently configurable beams, plus a fifth carrying Konos Select. In 4-beam mode each beam gets its own width and faces front or rear, so one mic holds a tight target and a wide room at the same time.
Konos Select
Noise suppression running on the mic itself - for wind, rumble and the tonal whine of drone rotors - tuned from any browser and saved to the mic. It carries channel 1's beam, filtered, on the fifth channel, so the clean beam and the Select take travel down the same cable. Bypass it any time to A/B by ear.
Channel map
| Mode | CH 1 | CH 2 | CH 3 | CH 4 | CH 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4-Beam | Beam 1 | Beam 2 | Beam 3 | Beam 4 | Konos Select |
| Steerable | Beam 1 | Copy | Copy | Copy | Konos Select |
| Stereo | L | R | L copy | R copy | Konos Select |
CH 5 always carries Konos Select: whatever CH 1 carries, filtered - the steered beam in steerable mode, the left beam in stereo. In stereo mode any AES67 receiver takes ch 1 + ch 2 as L/R with no remapping.
Need every element instead? 80-channel output →Stereo mode
One mic. True stereo.
Stereo is a mode of its own. Two simultaneous acoustic beams sit either side of the forward axis - not a channel split - and you shape the image: how far apart they point, how wide each one is, and which way the pair faces. One 80-element array, one cable, and any AES67 receiver takes it as L/R with no remapping.
- Splay ±15-50°
- Width 60-150°
- 4 orientations
- CH 1/3 L · CH 2/4 R
Perfectly matched channels
Both beams are formed together from the same array, so beam width, frequency response and gain are identical - channel matching no two-capsule stereo mic can offer.
Zero inter-channel skew
Left and right land in the same sample frame. L/R time alignment is exact by construction, not trimmed in post.
An image you shape
Six splays from ±15° to ±50° and seven beam widths from 60° to 150°, with a recommended width for every splay. Four orientations, saved to the mic so the setting comes back after a power cycle.
80-channel output
Every element. Raw.
Konos Digital is a finished microphone - and a research array. Open an 80-channel session and the mic streams every MEMS element as its own channel, unbeamformed, over the same Ethernet cable - for your own offline beamforming, direction finding or research capture. Record it with Konos Control - it writes plain WAV that opens in any audio editor - or take the stream into your own client.
| Standard stream | 80-channel output | |
|---|---|---|
| Channels | 5 - four beams + Konos Select | 80 - one per element, unprocessed |
| Format | 24-bit / 48 kHz | 24-bit / 48 kHz, sample-synchronous across the array |
| Network load | ~6 Mbit/s | ~97 Mbit/s on the wire - Gigabit link required |
| Receiver | Any AES67 / RAVENNA / NMOS receiver | Konos Control, or your own capture client - not a standard AES67 receiver |
| Sessions | Always on, any number of receivers | One capture session at a time |
One stream or the other: while an 80-channel session is open, the five-channel AES67 stream stops. The session is started from the capture client - Konos Control records for a set duration or until you stop it - not from the mic's web page.
Why it matters
Fewer mics in the air.
Fewer microphones, cables and rigging positions
One array covers what used to take several mics, so there is less to hang, run and manage.
Steer from the app or your tracking system
Open, close or steer the beam from Konos Control, or let your live-sport tracking feed the steer angle so the beam follows the action. Nobody climbs to move a mic.
Target and atmosphere feeds from one device
Capture a tight target and a wide room at once across independent channels.
True stereo without a second microphone
A matched left/right pair of simultaneous beams from the one array - identical width and gain, sample-aligned, with the splay and beam width set by you.
A research array on the same cable
Open an 80-channel session and record every element raw - from the same app - for your own beamforming or direction finding.
Technical specifications
Konos Digital specifications
| Beam width | Continuously variable 60-300° cone |
|---|---|
| Beam steering | Electronic 3D aim · ±90° · 15° steps · constant 60° beam |
| Stereo | Matched L/R pair either side of the forward axis · splay ±15-50° (6 steps) · beam width 60-150° (7 steps, recommended width per splay) · 4 orientations · saved to the mic |
| Transducer | 80-element MEMS array |
| Konos Select | On-board noise suppression on ch 5 · a filtered copy of whatever ch 1 carries, in every mode · wind, rumble and tonal drone noise · tuned in a web browser, saved to the mic · instant bypass for A/B |
| Connection | Single RJ45 · PoE in, 5 ch audio over IP out |
| Control | Konos Control app - iOS / macOS, Android, Windows · mic web page (HTTP) + POST API · firmware-updatable |
| Network audio | AES67 / SMPTE ST 2110 |
| Discovery & registration | NMOS IS-04 / IS-05 |
| Channels - 4-beam mode | 4 independent beam ch · per-channel width 60-300° · front or back · plus Konos Select on ch 5 |
| Channels - steerable mode | 1 steered 60° beam (±90°) · same audio on all four beam channels |
| Channels - stereo mode | L/R matched pair · ch1 L, ch2 R, ch3 L copy, ch4 R copy - interleaved so any receiver takes ch1 + ch2 as L/R with no remapping |
| 80-channel output | Every element as its own raw channel · 24-bit / 48 kHz, sample-synchronous · ~97 Mbit/s on the wire, Gigabit link · one capture session at a time · needs a capture client (Konos Control or your own), not an AES67 receiver · the 5 ch stream stops while it runs |
| Frequency response | 50 Hz - 20 kHz |
| Max SPL | 117 dB (THD < 0.5%) |
| Resolution | 24-bit / 48 kHz |
| Power | ~2 W · Power over Ethernet (PoE) over the single RJ45 |
| Housing | Anodised aluminium |
| Size & weight | 25 × 25 × 255 mm (1 × 1 × 10 in) · ~150 g (5.3 oz) |
| Mounting | 25 mm square profile · fits a Rycote Nano-Shield with the Konos mount kit → |
Suggested retail USD 1,699, excluding tax, duty and freight. Your dealer sets local pricing.
Preliminary specifications - subject to change before shipping (start of 2027).
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