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SPIRIT Products' Quality is Acknowledged by D&M Professional (Denon Professional / Marantz Professional)

Moscow, September 20, 2007 - SPIRIT DSP, the world's leading provider of embedded voice & video software products, announced today that D&M Professional has integrated SPIRIT’s audio processing solution into its cutting-edge Recorders.

SPIRIT’s MP3 codec helps D&M Professional to make the next step with their latest family of Recorders, both rack-mounted and portable ones. The SPIRIT solution will run in D&M Professional Rack-mounted Recorder based on Cirrus Logic's EP931 ARM9 platform, and D&M Professional Portable MP3 Recorder using TI C55xx processor. SPIRIT’s MP3 brings superior quality to sound recording, which is a must in Hi-Fi audio systems, along with the standard compliance and low system resource requirements. High performance of the SPIRIT solution allows increasing the number of Hi-Fi quality audio channels simultaneously recorded by the D&M Professional Recorder.

“We are glad that we have found a solution that is perfectly-matched with our requirements. SPIRIT has managed to provide us with the technology that will give our products a strong competitive advantage,” said Hajime Wada, Chief Engineer of D&M Professional.

The D&M Professional Recorders offer the possibility to correct and process the recorded sound in order to make it artistically right, which is extremely important for professional top end studios. The Recorders boost high-precision control, easy navigation, and great performance making them an ideal choice for creating flawless professional music and voice recordings.

"Marantz Professional and Denon Professional quality goes unquestioned and we are proud to provide them with our codec supporting their leading positions in Hi-Fi audio market," said Alex Kravchenko, SPIRIT’s VP Sales & Marketing.

About SPIRIT

SPIRIT DSP (www.spiritDSP.com) employs 140 professionals, and has been in the international software licensing business since 1992. A bootstrap company, SPIRIT has been profitable for 15 years. For the last 10 years SPIRIT's focus has been voice, audio, video and data communication software products. SPIRIT counts among its customers Adobe, Agere, Arima Communications, ARM, Atmel, Cisco, Compal, Flextronics, Ericsson, HP, HTC, Kyocera, LG, MediaRing, Microsoft, NEC, Nortel Networks, NXP, Oracle, Paltalk, Panasonic, Polycom, Quanta, Radvision, Samsung, Siemens, Texas Instruments, Toshiba and Trinity Convergence, among 200+ other communication OEMs and software vendors. SPIRIT communication software is used in over 80 countries and powers more than 100 million embedded voice channels. SPIRIT DSP is a member of major voice-related developer communities, including ARM® Connected Community, Analog Devices Collaborative, Intel® Developer Network, TI Third Party Network, TI OMAP Developer Network for Wireless handsets and PDAs. SeeStorm is a SPIRIT affiliate for synthetic video conferencing.

About D&M Holdings Inc.

D&M Holdings Inc. is a global operating company providing worldwide management and distribution platforms for premium consumer, automotive, commercial and professional audio and video businesses including Denon®, Marantz®, McIntosh® Laboratory, Boston Acoustics®, Snell Acoustics, Denon DJ, Escienta, ReplayTVa, Calrec Audio, D&M Professional and D&M Premium Sound Solutions. Our technologies improve the quality of any audio and visual experience. All product and brand names with a trademark symbol are trademarks or registered trademarks of D&M Holdings, Inc. or its subsidiaries. For more information visit www.dm-holdings.com, http://www.d-mpro.eu.com/index2.php?lang=eng