Outline’s H-Series column loudspeaker aims to ‘make every word audible where the acoustics work against the voice’.
‘Column loudspeakers have long since drifted off their original function of concentrating energy in the horizontal plane, chosen more for their form factor than for what they do,’ the company says. ‘The H462 was designed to put that function back to work, safeguarding intelligibility in reverberant spaces – lecture halls, congress centres, houses of worship, airports, and shopping malls.’
Eack column is loaded with six 4-inch drivers with heavy rear-side attenuation across the audio range, located beneath (or above) a twin-1-inch HF horn that flips mechanically on its vertical axis. The enclosure dispersion is 90°x30°, with full-spectrum cardioid rear rejection, and a frequency response extending from 95Hz to 19kHz to cover the full vocal range with out the support od a subwoofer.
Being a passive system, on its own the H462 is driven by the external ISA4D32 amplifier, the Outline model the whole design was built around.
Where music takes over from speech, the column can be mounted on top of a H102S Sub which carries a purpose-built amplifier that drives both its own pair of 10-inch woofers, switchable between cardioid and omnidirectional dispersion, and the column above it. The result is a full-range combo with almost no visible cabling.
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