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EAW Debuts Element Series of Compact Weatherproof Speakers
With the new Element Series from Eastern Acoustic Works, great sound is elemental. EAW Engineering has designed these new loudspeakers to combine the highest levels of audio performance with the most robust environmental protection: IEC 60529 and MilSpec 810 ratings.
Key to this breakthrough is a new acoustically inert yet waterproof enclosure material: high-impact polypropylene with 40-percent calcium carbonate. Shaped into sophisticated enclosures with few or no parallel surfaces, this new material makes the Element Series sonically indistinguishable from EAW’s world-famous laminated Baltic birch enclosures.
To prove the point, EAW introduced four new Element Series compact 2-way loudspeakers at PLASA in London recently. The LM60 includes a soft-dome tweeter on a Waveguide Plate? and a 6.5-inch woofer. The LM80 pairs a Waveguide Plate-loaded compression driver with dual 6.5-inch woofers. A perforated steel grill backed with open cell 60ppi foam protects the drivers. An optional 10,000 pores to the inch stainless steel water barrier is also available. A further option for extreme conditions is a waterproof input panel: the standard recessed phenolic panel with barrier strip inputs is covered by an 1/8-inch aluminum plate with waterproof gland-seal nuts for the input cables, secured to the enclosure by stainless steel screws and a waterproof gasket.
Simultaneously, EAW is introducing the JF60z and JF80z, which include the same drivers, Waveguide Plate, crossover/filter network, and enclosure design, but in the familiar cross-grain laminated Baltic birch that EAW has used to build enclosures for over a quarter-century.
1st October 2004
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