Calling it “the Shape of Things to Come”, British company Martin Audio announced a major new dedicated installation loudspeaker range at the 2015 Prolight+Sound show in Frankfurt. The CDD Series introduces an interesting design, combining distinctive curved enclosures with Coaxial Differential Dispersion drivers.The new CDD series was designed to deliver class-leading performance, fidelity and coverage consistency to bars, AV installations, churches or prestige nightclubs. Martin Audio’s CDD includes six two-way full-range coaxial systems — from the most compact CDD5 speaker to a powerful CDD15, complemented by high-performance subwoofers. All CDD models come in black or white as standard and all RAL color variants, available to order.
According to Martin Audio’s R&D Director, Jason Baird, “Coaxial Differential Dispersion technology delivers more consistent audience coverage than systems with fixed dispersion X° x Y° horns — projecting more output to the rear of the audience to distribute sound evenly from front-to-back, while having wide horizontal coverage close-up. This increased coverage area can reduce the speaker count in larger installations.”
Moulded in rigid UPM Formi — a natural fibre composite which combines stiffness with excellent internal damping properties — the series visually-appealing enclosures can be discreetly mounted close to a wall or ceiling. They can also be used in either horizontal or vertical orientation, with rotation of the coaxial driver easily accomplished by removing the screw free, protective grille.
As Jason Baird, declared, “We didn’t want to do ‘just another’ installation box, we really wanted to bring fresh thinking and innovation to the install market and with it deliver superior sound quality and coverage. With CDD we have all the benefits of coaxial point source, but because we have developed a patent pending two-part static and moving waveguide that merges with the low frequency cone we are able to maintain the dispersion pattern out to very high frequencies.”
“By making these waveguides produce differential dispersion, we’ve created a rectangular coverage pattern to reach all corners of the audience, whilst wide horizontal coverage is achieved very close to the loudspeaker. Walking the room, the consistency in frequency response and SPL — both close to the loudspeaker and further back — is exceptional. Essentially we’ve advanced point source technology to bring MLA-like (Multi-cellular Loudspeaker Array) consistency to the more intimate spaces of the install market. The improved coverage close-up also means that CDD speakers can be spaced further apart in some instances, reducing overall speaker count.”Managing Director, Luke Ireland, adds that the CDD series “is a significant landmark in Martin Audio’s history but more importantly our customers are being offered a vastly superior product at a price that’s significantly less than our current AQ range that CDD is replacing. It’s not often that superior technology and performance are offered so competitively, but that’s another reason why we expect big things for CDD in the installed sound market.”
The new series will start shipping from late June 2015.
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