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INTRODUCTION
Thank you for selecting Tannoy loudspeakers developed in the UK by our dedicated team
of design engineers. The Tannoy Arena Highline 500™ speakers are designed to blend
perfectly into your room and provide a sound stage which is at least as good as you
would hear in a commercial movie theatre, but in the comfort of your own home. You
have a choice of speakers, mounting brackets and floor-stands to help you to get the
very best sound quality and appearance. Tannoy Professional Studio Monitor speakers
are used by mixing engineers, producers and directors in the creation and production
of many movie soundtracks. Tannoy Arena Highline 500™ home cinema speakers are
engineered with the same technology, design and manufacturing principles as Tannoy
Studio Monitors to create realistic special effects with clear crisp dialogue capability. The
carefully designed appearance of Tannoy Arena Highline 500™ system components
allows discreet placement of the speakers giving the movie screen pride of place as the
centre of the visual movie action.
TANNOY DUAL CONCENTRIC™
The Arena Highline 500™ loudspeakers incorporate the legendary Tannoy Dual
Concentric™ drivers. Intensive research and development has produced an all-new
version of this proven technology that builds upon the legendary performance of this
exclusive Tannoy driver design. The time coherent, point source and constant directivity
nature of the dispersion characteristics inherent in the Dual makes it an accepted industry
standard in studio monitoring. By exceeding the rigorous demands of the recording and
mastering environment Tannoy can ensure that playback performance in the home,
whether in two channel stereo or multi channel home cinema mode, is strictly controlled
to accurately reflect the sound engineer’s artistry. In nature all sounds emanate from a
single point in space. The high frequency unit of the Dual, centrally mounted in the throat
of the main mid/bass driver, is so positioned as to acoustically replicate this single point
source; delivering an incredibly natural sound with an incredibly wide imaging 'sweet
spot' that creates an expansive soundstage with remarkably focused placement of vocals
and instrumentation.
TANNOY WIDEBAND™
Tannoy has incorporated its own WideBand™ technology into the design of all Arena
Highline loudspeakers. Not only does this exceptional in-house technology resolve fine
detail of high frequency information but it also effectively enhances the listening experience
throughout the whole frequency range. The WideBand™ high frequency system creates
an increased immediacy, airiness and impact making music sound more natural and true
to life. Music contains transient information and rich harmonics beyond the range of
human hearing for pure tones. Even bass notes have leading edge transients reaching
30kHz. Operating between the roll-off point of the exclusive Tannoy mid-bass driver unit
and 51kHz, the Tannoy WideBand™ high frequency unit will accurately reproduce the
leading edge of individual notes allowing the listener to experience the entire bandwidth
information of instruments. In addition, the extension of the frequency response, by fully
two octaves, corrects time and phase response within the bandwidth of normal human
hearing. Taking these acoustical phase anomalies beyond the audible range adds realism
to the soundstage through improvements in imaging and the placement of instrumentation
and movie special effects.
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