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Turbosound Showing All Aspects at Prolight+Sound Frankfurt 2005
Turbosound is launching a number of new products at Frankfurt Prolight+Sound 2005 (April 6 - 9). Turbosound's award-winning Aspect series is being shown in both large-scale touring and fixed installation guises, demonstrating its on-the-road arrayability and overall flexibility. Making its world debut is the large-format TSW-218, a new sub-bass enclosure designed to complement Turbosound's Aspect series and the larger models in the QLight range. Other new products include the QLight TQ-315DP, a full-range digitally-powered design; the TSB-212 bandpass sub-bass enclosure, plus the LMS-D26 and LMS-D24 digital loudspeaker management systems.
Turbsound's highly innovative Aspect series, currently out on Natasha Bedingfield's UK tour, is the company's most efficient loudspeaker design to date. The ease, speed and practicality of creating large Aspect arrays is being illustrated at Frankfurt, with Turbosound presenting examples of the design's touring and ground-stacking installation enclosures, including the TA-890H Touring mid-high, the TA-890L Touring bass, the TA-880H Trapezoidal mid-high and the TA-880L bass enclosure.
The Aspect design incorporates numerous patented concepts, is capable of generating peak SPL in excess of 146dB with very low distortion, and utilises in-house-designed transducers with high-stability neodymium magnets. The Aspect series' most visible
innovation is the use of Polyhorn waveguides for the high frequency and high-mid frequency bands, employing equal-path-length, multi-section horns to create phase-coherent wavefronts. The unique Polyhorn concept allows wavefronts from individual boxes to coincide seamlessly with the array's curvature, minimising comb-filtering effects between adjacent cabinets and resulting in the system's tightly focused point-and-shoot directivity. This enables easy scalability from small clubs and auditoria, to the largest arenas and stadia. The Aspect series touring enclosures also feature integral flying hardware for both horizontal and vertical formats, and offer rationalised transportation, with the dimensions of the identically-sized mid-high and LF enclosures being carefully chosen to optimise truck packing in US and European vehicles.
Providing dynamic and accurate low-frequency performance at very high levels, Turbosound's new TSW-218 bass system is a double 18” modular coupling horn enclosure, capable of delivering SPL in excess of 140dB from a single unit. The new enclosure is designed for high power applications in the sub-200Hz region for concert touring and festival environments. Its performance complements Turbosound's Aspect series enclosures and the larger QLight systems.
Also boosting the lower octaves at Prolight+Sound is Turbosound's new TSB-212 bandpass sub-bass. Extending the capabilities of the existing TSB-110 bass enclosure, the new model utilises two high-excursion 12” drivers, and is designed for use in conjunction with Turbosound's TXD and smaller QLight systems, for install and rental applications.
Making its debut at the show is the QLight TQ-315DP trapezoidal enclosure, a full-range digitally-powered design, featuring a 15” LF driver, and a 1.4” HF driver on a rotatable Converging Elliptical Waveguide with an 80º x 50º coverage pattern. The loudspeaker's integral Class D power amplifiers provide 2 x 800 watts r.m.s. into 8 ohms, and its sophisticated 96kHz DSP technology combines EQ, active crossovers and output limiters to optimise the completely self-contained system. The design also incorporates an ultra-fast switch-mode power supply, with auto-sensing from 100V to 240V, enabling easy operation anywhere in the world.
Turbosound is also launching two new highly cost-effective digital loudspeaker management systems in Frankfurt. Incorporating pre-set programmes that contain the parameters of all Turbosound loudspeakers, the new systems provide full control over crossover frequency, filter slope, gain and polarity. The LMS-D26 offers a 2-in/6-out format, while the LMS-D24 provides a 2-in/4-out configuration. Both models have integral, fast-acting limiters, and worldwide-usage auto-switching power supplies.
11th March 2005
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