To meet the design objectives for the intended applications, EAW engineers developed a new high-performance, 3-inch voice-coil, 1.4-inch exit compression driver, loading it with a selection of six different HF horns with coverage patterns ranging from 60° x 45° to 120° x 60°. The horns are as large as the enclosure size allows to maintain consistent directivity across the entire HF passband. A 3-inch voice coil and 15-inch LF driver were used to complement the sonic character and output of the HF driver. All MK5300i models are carefully voiced to sound similar, allowing diverse horn patterns to be blended throughout the installation while maintaining the same sonic quality. The result is clean, high-fidelity output at levels significantly louder than would be expected from speakers of this size and price.
Users can select between single-amplifier and bi-amplifier (external processor) operating modes. In either operating mode, EAW's beamwidth-adaptive crossover/filter design delivers a uniform power response throughout the crossover region, eliminating the discontinuities that plague other two-way loudspeakers.
The MK5300i series systems are the larger companions to the MK2300i series systems. The enclosures for both series are the same height, facilitating installation where more than one horn pattern and/or type of speaker capacity is needed. Additionally, the SBK series subwoofers also share this height, creating attractive arrays utilizing EAW's pre-configured auxiliary bar.
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