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ISE 2013: Tannoy extends QFlex line

The QFlex 64 is now the largest model in the range, with 64 individual drivers each with its own amplification channel and DSP, in a 5.5 metre high column enclosure.

Tannoy used the recent ISE show in Amsterdam to launch a new flagship digital beam steering loudspeaker array, the QFlex 64.

Extending the performance capabilities of the QFlex range, QFlex 64 complements the six existing models in this product line, with QFlex 48 previously being the largest column available, offering new possibilities for the product in particularly demanding applications.

Tannoy’s QFlex is a range of digitally steerable, self-powered column array loudspeakers aimed at the high performance installation market. Purpose-designed for applications with problematic acoustics (where good intelligibility is required), QFlex technology gives the system designer a unique set of tools for controlling sound in large, acoustically challenging, highly reverberant spaces – typically involving expanses of reflective surfaces such as glass, metal, concrete or stone.

The QFlex 64 is now the largest model in the range, with 64 individual drivers each with its own amplification channel and DSP, in a 5.5 metre high column enclosure. This new model offers greater low frequency directivity control (down to 110 Hz), increased effective range and throw, and greatly improved headroom and SPL.

Typical applications for the QFlex 64 are large public concourses, major transport hubs (such as long railway station platforms) and other long-throw situations, where great intelligibility and LF control over distances are of paramount concern.
“The ability of any steerable column to control directivity vs. frequency is proportional to its length. Our new QFlex 64 is nearly twice as long as the existing QFlex 48 model. As a result, what a QFlex 48 can do at 200Hz, a QFlex 64 will be able to achieve down at 110Hz,” explains Philippe Robineau, Tannoy’s director of engineering. “Of course, in environments with challenging acoustics, having effective beam control down to 150Hz is important to achieve exceptional levels of intelligibility, especially in spaces with particularly high RT60.”

The QFlex 64 will also benefit from a new feature update, which will apply across the whole QFlex range, providing two on-board steering presets. This new feature will allow users to quickly reconfigure an installed QFlex column to an alternative coverage pattern with the flick of a remote switch (or via third-party control such as AMX or Crestron). 
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