UK - Fane Acoustics, manufacturer of professional audio components, has launched the first range of high power, ready to install, portable Distributed Mode Loudspeakers (DML) - MiniPro. The flat panel speakers are manufactured using second-generation, high-output, grounded transducers and are ideal for use in visually sensitive architectural situations.

MiniPro can deliver 114dB at peak output, handling up to 80W. Suitable for almost any type of program, the operating range spans from 60Hz to 21kHz. The product is extremely lightweight at just 3.6Kg.

DML technology has reached a stage where high power transducers can produce significant sound output levels with a full spectrum frequency response. MiniPro will fill unusually large spaces with clean and clear non-directional sound due to its unusual and diffuse dispersion characteristics. Beaming is eliminated and adverse room effects are thereby substantially reduced.

MiniPro is suitable for a variety of applications such as: Multimedia and high intelligibility speech, acoustic musical instruments, schools and places of worship, retail spaces, restaurants and bars and as a highly portable P.A. system.

To tackle the problems that often cause poor sound quality such as high or unusual ceilings, wide stage areas, absorption panels etc, MiniPro units can be teamed with conventional loudspeaker installations in an application called Layered Sound. The result is a significant improvement in diffusion, clarity and frequency response and the creation of the correct balance between direct and reflected sound, for instance in the challenging Kölner Dom theatre.

Adam Hall, project director for Fane Acoustics commented: "The take-up of advances in technology always has to overcome inertial barriers caused by the way installers and their own client bases have become accustomed to familiar concepts. Nevertheless, the startling in-situ performance of these new second-generation flat loudspeakers convinces us that we are onto a winner, even if it doesn't happen in the first year. Having actually experienced the results, along with the positive reactions of audiences and performers alike, our early adopters in several German concert venues would now not rely solely on their original installations."

(Sarah Rushton-Read)


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