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BLAZE AUDIO CBL528

Applications Theatres, houses of worship, concert halls, conference halls, sports venues, clubs

With its wide 180° horizontal and 45° vertical dispersion, this loudspeaker supports a frequency range from 54Hz to 18kHz – ensuring clear, natural-sounding music and highly articulate speech reproduction. Just as importantly, its symmetrical dispersion pattern ensures listeners hear consistent sound regardless of whether they are positioned in front of, to the left or to the right of the loudspeaker. A crossover point at 420Hz, continuing all the way up to 18KHz, allows for a blend of full-range audio from the entire reflective physical space, rendering speech intelligibility holes obsolete. Key features Highly focused pattern with consistent frequency response Symmetrical dispersion pattern Four five-inch low-frequency drivers Eight two-inch mid-high-frequency drivers Bi-amped design for system integration with Blaze amplifiers Ultra-low-distortion drivers

KV2 AUDIO VHD5.0 MID HI MODULE

Applications Medium to large concert halls, hire and production, large clubs, arenas

The VHD5.0 is a three-way enclosure handling low mids, mids and highs over a frequency range from 45Hz through to 20kHz. It incorporates eight frontloaded. ten-inch low-mid drivers, six horn-loaded eight-inch mid-range drivers and three three-inch NVPD (nitrate vapour particle deposition) titanium compression drivers on a custom-designed, manifold horn assembly with summing waveguide. Boasting the capacity to run full range down to 45Hz, the VHD5.0 is usually crossed over at 70Hz to the VHD4.21 active sub-bass modules. Both VHD5.0 and VHD8.10 cabinets incorporate simple-to-use integrated flyware that links cabinets together quickly and easily.

Key features Horn-loaded acoustic design Titanium nitride diaphragm material Baltic birch cabinet material

GENELEC 4040A

Applications Theatres, restaurants, conference rooms, museums, galleries, sports centres

With beautiful aesthetics and 120 RAL colour finishes, the 4040A delivers Genelec’s trademark precision and clarity, with controlled directivity and the ability to adapt to difficult acoustic environments through simple rear panel room compensation switches. This ensures clean, intelligible, non-fatiguing audio whatever the playback level. The active design of the 4000 series removes the need for bulky external power amplifiers, since the amplifiers, crossover filters and protection circuitry are contained within the speaker cabinet itself.

Key features

Active crossovers Minimum diffraction enclosure technology Intelligent signal sensing technology Protection circuitry Optimised amplifiers

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