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If there was a league for speaker cables, our new representatives would definitely be part of it. With Neutrik as team mate and German manufacturing skills, the enormous high quality of our cable team shines through.

The 2 pole speakon cables from PSSO have been developed to serve the demanding and professional engineer. It was our goal, to produce a highly reliable cable which is rugged enough for the road and which overcomes a vast number of plugging procedures uncomplainingly – everything without being too expensive. In collaboration with Neutrik we have achieved this goal.

Neutrik supplies the very stable Speakon NL2FC cable plugs, the cables are made in Germany. Up to now we offer three cables with different lengths, 5 m, 10 m and 15 m.
With our PSSO Speakon cables we have accommodated a new product family which is perfectly suited for our PSSO audio products. And one thing is sure, it won’t be the last family to join our cable assortment.

• Connector A: Neutrik Speakon NL2FC plug
• Connector B: Neutrik Speakon NL2FC plug
• Cable cross-section: 2.5 mm²
• Cable length: 5 m, 10 m, 15 m
  
• Cable diameter: 7 mm
• Weight: 0.5 kg
• Cable construction 140 x 0.15

The human ear is mainly adapted to the frequency range where speech is transmitted. Frequencies below this frequency range are less noted although the same physical level is present. In practice, this effect requires higher bass power e. g. by more powerful subwoofers, more subs or a mixture of both. As speakers generally have a low efficiency comparable to a halogen lamp, manufacturers try to achieve the highest efficiency by optimized housing shapes. But not every housing shape is suitable for every event location and audience. The following article should help to find the suitable subwoofer type.

1. Introduction

The loudspeaker celebrates its 150th anniversary based on the invention of the telephone by Philipp Reis in the year 1861. Already in the year 1878, the electro-dynamic loudspeaker was patented. This kind of loudspeaker is still built into most speaker-systems today.

If such a loudspeaker is operated without housing, an acoustic short-circuit is produced because the sound waves produced by both membrane sides are eliminated by each other. The volume is clearly reduced, especially the lower frequencies. A pragmatic use is not possible like this so that diverse types of loudspeaker housings for different applications were developed. Read more »

The preset we provide for the PSSO Compact Line Array is based on the last years’ experience and should help to find the perfect settings for your application.

For this setup, we use the following components:

8x PSSO CLA-228 at PSSO HP-1400 (Hi) and HP-2400 (Mid)

2x PSSO CLA-115 at PSSO HP-2400

4x PSSO CLA-118 at PSSO HP-3200

2x PSSO SUB-2180 at PSSO HP-3200

The gains of all power amplifiers are set to maximum.

Settings overview: Read more »

In order to facilitate the use of the Compact Line Array, PSSO presents a simulation software for the users. This software is based on the Engine of RAY-END (former GPA). We would like to introduce this software to you with a little introduction and five short tutorial videos.

If you have not dealt with Line Arrays in general, we recommend to read the article „The line array in theory and practice“ explaining the basics of line array technology and the PSSO Compact Line Array.

The simulation software is very intuitive and only presents those functions really needed in sound engineering. Read more »

We want to complete the list of tools described in the first part. We start with equalizers – also a vital part of oudspeaker controllers. The frequency range of a PA-system can easily be corrected with fully parametric equalizers. While mixer equalizers are mostly semi-parametric, i. e. only amplitude and frequency can be changed, a fully parametric equalizer can also change the filter bandwidth or shape of the bell. Consider that a high filter bandwidth (Q-factor) equals a small bandwidth and vice versa. As already mentioned, too harsh adjustements of the frequency response have to be avoided because the phase problems make the positive effects of the correction void. Here, less is often more!
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