Echo Digital Audio
Echo Digital Audio designs and manufactures various digital audio recording interfaces, MIDI interfaces, audio test equipment, custom professional audio products, and audio software.
The company is located in Santa Barbara, CA Echo Digital Audio( formerly Street Electronics) introduced their first digital audio interface, Echo II, for the Apple II in 1978 to provide speech output for the blind, educational, and handicapped markets.
In the 1990s Echo went on to design and manufacture one of the first multi-track audio recording product for the PC markets.
Echo has licensed its DSP- based audio technology to several leading audio and semiconductor companies including: Gibson Guitar, Analog Devices, HP, Sony, Motorola, Peavey, Mackie, Carvin, Dolby Laboratories, AKM, et al.
Sony Digital Audio Disc Corporation
Sony Digital Audio Disc Corporation( Sony DADC) is a manufacturer of CDs, DVDs, UMDs, and Blu-ray Discs.
The company has many plants worldwide.
Although it primarily services Sony Music Entertainment- owned record labels, it also manufactures discs for other labels.
Sony DADC's first plant, in Terre Haute, Indiana, opened May 2, 1983, and produced its first CD, Bruce Springsteen's" Born in the U.S.A.", in September 1984.
It was the first CD manufacturer in the United States, is the company's principal CD manufacturing facility, and is the company's research and development center.
The plant was initially a subsidiary of CBS/ Sony Group, but Sony bought out CBS's stake in October 1985.
When Sony bought CBS Records in 1988, it acquired that company's manufacturing facilities, some of which later became part of Sony DADC.
Among these are the plants in Pitman, New Jersey( closed in 2011); Terre Haute, Indiana; Toronto, Ontario, Canada( plant closed in 2011); Mexico City( plant closed 2015); Salzburg, Austria; Mumbai, India; and Manaus, Brazil—all of which were originally manufacturers of vinyl gramophone records.
These plants began manufacturing CDs later — Pitman in 1988, Manaus in 1992, and Toronto and Mexico City in 1994.
LaserDiscs, primarily 12- inch disc prints of feature films and concerts, were manufactured by Sony DADC in the 1980s and 1990s.
Some of the laserdiscs currently show laser rot, more than from any other manufacturer.
Sony DADC now manufactures the majority of CDs sold in the United States.
In November 2008, the company bought the American disc- manufacturing capabilities of Glenayre Technologies, which manufactured the discs of Universal Music Group.
In the summer of 2009, the company assumed the physical distribution of EMI's North American operations.
This left WEA as the only major label whose discs are not manufactured by the company, as its discs are manufactured by the operations of the former WEA Manufacturing that were sold to Cinram.
On August 8, 2011, a Sony DADC distribution center in Enfield was destroyed during the 2011 England riots.
The warehouse was used by independent music distributor PIAS Entertainment Group to distribute CDs, LPs, and DVDs for over 100 European independent labels.
The total stock loss in the fire was reported to be between 3.5 million and 25 million units.
On January 17th, 2018, the DADC plant in Terre Haute, IN announced that they would be laying off 375 employees, and shifting manufacturing of audio discs to another manufacturer, Sonopress.
It was later determined that manufacturing of most audio discs would be facilitated by CDA Inc.
The majority of audio discs manufactured for Universal Music Group US and Sony Music Entertainment US are presently manufactured by CDA Inc, while the discs are packaged and assembled into jewel cases in the USA.
Technicolor sometimes also assists in the facilitation of disc manufacturing for Universal Music Group US.
POW-R
POW- R( Psychoacoustically Optimized Wordlength Reduction) is a set of commercial dithering and noise shaping algorithms used in digital audio bit -depth reduction.
Developed by a consortium of four companies –" The POW- R Consortium" – the algorithms were first made available in 1999 in digital audio hardware products.
POW- R is now licensed for use by many companies, particularly those in the Digital Audio Workstation( DAW) arena, where it currently has significant market share.
Vítkovice Mining and Iron Corporation
Vítkovice Mining and Iron Corporation, located in Ostrava- Vítkovice in Czechoslovakia], was an iron mill founded by Salomon Meyer von Rothschild's heirs in 1873, it was the largest iron and steel works in the Austro- Hungarian monarchy.
Fairlight (company)
Fairlight is a digital audio company based in Sydney.
In 1979 they created the Fairlight CMI, one of the earliest music workstation with digital audio sampler, quickly used by artists such as Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, and Jean Michel Jarre.
They are now a manufacturer of media tools such as digital audio recording and mixing consoles.
Fairlight became such a prominent part of 1980s pop music that Phil Collins included the text" there is no Fairlight on this record" in the liner notes of" No Jacket Required".
Bang (beverage)
Bang is an American brand of energy drinks.
It is made by Vital Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a corporation located in Florida.
Westat
Westat is an employee- owned professional services corporation located in Rockville, Maryland, USA.
Westat provides research services to agencies of the U.S. Government, as well as businesses, foundations, and state and local governments.
Cockos
Cockos, Inc is an American digital audio technology company founded in 2004, most notable for their digital audio workstation software REAPER.
Rimo
Rimo is both a mountain in the Karakoram and the name of the subrange in which it lies:
Mountain Designs
Mountain Designs is an outdoor clothing and equipment business based in Australia.
They sell hiking, rockclimbing and general outdoor and recreational equipment.
The company stocks a variety of international and local brands, as well as items in their own branded range across multiple categories including clothing, accessories, sleep and shelter, packs and bags and more.
It was founded by Rick White in Brisbane in 1975.
The chain had 45 stores across Australia as of January 2018.
Mountain Designs had a retail presence in New Zealand until pulling out in 2014 citing a slow economy and a saturated market.
At the time of the announcement, it had 12 stores in the country and had been operating for over a decade.
In January 2018, Mountain Designs closed all of its retail stores, with the company stating it would transition into an online-only retailer.
In March that year the Spotlight Retail Group purchased the company for an undisclosed sum.
In April 2019, Mountain Designs relaunched its e-commerce website.
The company would also sell a selection of its range in 60+ Anaconda stores, another outdoor equipment retailer owned by the Spotlight Retail Group.

Question: Are both Mountain Designs and Sony Digital Audio Disc Corporation located in the same country?