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PRODUCTS Coda Audio ‘New performance dimensions’ for Community’s R-Series THE R-SERIES of enclosures from Community Professional has expanded by eight new models, with the US manufacturer claiming that the new designs will add ‘new performance dimensions’ to the installation focused range. First on the list are three new compact models, the R.15COAX, R.35COAX, and R.35-3896, all of which are described as giving ‘systems designers increased exibility by offering vastly improved music playback, additional coverage patterns and higher output’. Housed in paintable ABS enclosures, the R.15COAX and Community’s new improved R-Series R.35COAX use identical 1.25inch exit HF compression drivers, the R.35-3896 is a triaxial 8-inch featuring Community’s Tru-Phase Carbon Ring Cone speaker boasting phase plug technology, and Carbon the manufacturer’s MultiSource Ring Cone woofer technology, Waveguide, which integrates which reportedly allows LF drivers the output from du al midrange to exhibit cone areas up to 20 per compression drivers and a 1-inch cent larger than standard woofers exit HF compression driver into of the same diameter. Both models a single coherent source. Fully feature front-loaded LF drivers – passive, it is voiced for at musical 6.5-inch in the R.15COAX and 10reproduction without EQ. inch in the R.35COAX. Meanwhile Also new are ve new R-MAX neodymium woofers. Chris Barrow, Community’s director of product marketing, commented: ‘The R-MAX products are the best sounding R-Series loudspeakers we have ever produced. They are not just great outdoor loudspeakers, they are great loudspeakers period’. Shipping: Now Web: www.communitypro.com products – the R.5-66MAX, R.596MAX, R2-64MAX, R2-66MAX, and R2-94MAX. They are described as ‘the most well behaved, attest musical response, premium loudspeakers ever offered in the R-Series’. Designed to produce ‘high intelligibility and high broadband output’, the loudspeakers include 1.4-inch exit HF drivers and 600W IP speaker system enables monitoring functionality USING THE CobraNet audio standard as its backbone, SoundTube Entertainment has begun shipping its STNet IPaddressable speaker system. The system provides a rack mountable 16-port switch and 40W PoE (Power over Ethernet) input power to its speakers along with report- 1/2 Horizontal 68 PRO AUDIO ASIA July–August 2014 PROMISING AN all-in-one 2.1 sound system within a single shallow enclosure, Germany’s Coda Audio is reaching out to the karaoke market with its KTV Soundbar. The box is intended for mounting beneath a video screen and measures 1,325mm in width. Inside the enclosure is a long excursion 12-inch ultra-low distortion cone driver covering 35Hz to 200Hz. The 3-inch voice coil is 32mm high, reportedly The STNet-Switch