As the exclusive UK distributor and prime reseller of a number of major brands, Orbital will showcase loudspeaker systems from d&b audiotechnik, digital wireless intercom systems from HME, and digital wireless microphone systems from Zaxcom.
Making their PLASA debut are d&b's installation-specific Ti-Series loudspeaker systems, featuring the same multi-purpose flexibility as the company's T-Series introduced earlier this year - with mounting hardware to suit fixed-install applications. The Ti-Series comprises the Ti10L, for deployment in multiples as part of line-array configurations, plus the Ti10P, which is designed as a point-source stand-alone loudspeaker and supplied without the line-array rigging hardware. Both models feature 2 x 6.5" drivers, plus a 1.4" exit HF compression driver, with a unique combination of a rotatable HF waveguide horn and acoustic lens providing a choice of dispersion patterns. The arrangement produces vertical line source directivity with a 90° horizontal pattern, maintained down to approximately 600Hz, with the acoustic lens in front of the horn widening horizontal dispersion to 105 . By rotating the horn by 90°, it produces an accurate point-source dispersion that transforms a vertically-oriented T10 into a stand-alone full range loudspeaker, with 90° horizontal and 35° vertical directivity pattern.
The Ti-Series also includes d&b audiotechniks Ti-SUB, which shares the same width and integrated rigging hardware as the Ti10L, enabling deployment either flown at the top of a Ti10L array or as a separate column. It can also be ground-stacked for installation with either of the Ti10 loudspeaker versions. The Ti-SUB increases low-frequency headroom, extending the bandwidth of a Ti10 column down to 47Hz, with its bass-reflex design utilising a high-excursion 15 driver with a neodymium magnet assembly, and employing d&b SenseDrive technology when driven by the D12 amplifier.
HME's recently-launched DX121 one-to-one digital wireless intercom will be on demonstration at PLASA09, together with other models from the companys DX-Series, covering applications from theatre and conference venues, to live-event communications. The DX-121 enables wireless intercom links of up to 300 metres to be quickly established, with its flexible interfacing allow connection to a standard intercom station or belt-pack headset jack, or to a matrix intercom system.
Digital wireless systems from Zaxcom include the TRX900 stereo-capable microphone transmitter and the new QRX100 4-channel receiver, which can be operated with any combination of mono or stereo TRX900 series microphone transmitters. From multi-channel theatre deployments, to location production and AV applications, Zaxcom digital wireless microphone systems maximise signal integrity, while offering operational flexibility, including powering options, say Orbital.
Visit Orbital Sound at PLASA - Stand 1-K27
(Lee Baldock)
