Renown for its touring and live performance sound reinforcement systems, French company L-Acoustics successfully expanded its outreach to the commercial installation market, from where it created extremely well-engineered designs for the residential and luxury custom install segments. The Xi Series seats right at the core of its installation range and offers a wide choice of installation-focused coaxial enclosures with distinct formats, bandwidth, and SPL specifically tailored for short throw applications. Discreet speakers that provide pristine sound quality, with designs that blend elegantly into venues requiring natural and powerful sound.
"The Xi Series represents a significant leap forward in meeting the diverse demands of premium installations," says Germain Simon, Director of Product Management at L-Acoustics. "The refined acoustic and physical design combines with a plethora of simple yet purposeful accessories to ensure premium professional audio can be created in any space."
One of the key features of the Xi Series is its coaxial technology, which allows for a compact design and constant tonal balance over distance. This technology ensures smooth coverage for off-axis audiences, eliminates the need for a minimum listening distance, and provides high feedback rejection. With an exceptional bandwidth-to-size ratio, the Xi Series boasts L-Vents to deliver clear low-frequency power and features a weather-resistant IP55 rating, making it suitable for indoor and outdoor installations.
The new X6i and X8i speakers feature slender, streamlined designs that seamlessly integrate into high-end architectural settings while providing clear, studio-like sound. These passive loudspeakers boast a 1.5" neodymium compression driver coaxially loaded by a 6" or 8" low-frequency transducer in a bass reflex cabinet. The 90° axisymmetric directivity imparts a smooth tonal response, free of secondary lobes over the entire frequency range.
Both loudspeakers can be driven by two presets, allowing them to adapt to the acoustic needs of different projects and subwoofer coupling configurations. In their native presets, ideal for vocal reinforcement or when used alongside a subwoofer, the X6i boasts a maximum SPL of 123dB and a frequency response down to 69Hz, while the X8i features a maximum SPL of 129dB and a frequency response down to 67Hz. For standalone applications and close proximity listening experiences, the X6i_50 preset delivers full-range sound reproduction down to 54Hz and produces a maximum SPL of 117dB. The X8i_40 preset reaches 43Hz, producing a maximum SPL of 123dB.
The combination of pristine yet powerful sound and elegant form make the X6i and X8i ideal for vocal or musical reinforcement in small theaters, live clubs, luxury and hospitality spaces, houses of worship, home and yacht, broadcast, and recording studios.
Visitors to ISE 2024 will be able to see and hear the freshly launched X8i and X6i models in Hall 7 booth #7F150, Hall 2 #2G500, and Hall 8 Audio Demo Room #B4. The X6i and X8i speakers ship in April 2024.
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