This year Beyma has centred its work on renewing its range of coaxial loud speakers, as well as continuing to develop models to enable the design of compact and efficient Line Arrays. Beyma's coaxial family was the last family in the Pro range which remained to be improved, after the intense and deep renovation that has taken place in its general catalogue over the past two years.
Two new series within the coaxial family were born: the XA series, which substituted the well-known KX series, and the XC series. The 12XA30/Nd and 15XA38/Nd are specially designed to provide an extremely flat response with a wide dispersion (80%) and high sensitivity (98 and dB at LF and 105 dB at HF). They include 4" coils of flat aluminium wire for considerable power management (700W Program) with minimum weight. The high pitch unit is similar to the CP-750/Ti and CP-755/Ti models with their excellent sound quality and linearity.
The XC series comprises 8", 10" and 12" models with a new compression motor made in neodymium, which is extremely compact and powerful. This family is designed to be fitted in compact sound boxes for sounding and monitoring with considerable average power (from 300 to 500W per program) and with special attention to its sound quality.
The filters of both families have been carefully designed to obtain an extremely uniform and linear sound dispersion including the use of acoustic resounders. Beyma also continues to be committed to supporting designers in the production of Linear Arrays in compact sizes for medium size equipment, where high power is not necessary, but a compact manageable size is. Thus, there are two new wave guides that join WL5, WL4 and WL3. These guides are of the same design as WL5 but with a new neodymium compression motor that is much more compact and with an outlet mouth 4" and 3" high respectively. The guides are made from aluminium providing the motor with an excellent heat dissipater and good rigidity.
Along with these new guides, the new models 6G40/Nd and 5G40/Nd join the current G40 family range. They are designed to be used in symbiosis with the wave guides. Once again, it has also been decided that these models are to be made in neodymium in order to reduce weight as much as possible but with the same performance as in the original design with ferrite magnets.
With the incorporation of these new products, along with the current neodymium and ferrite models, the designers have a wide range of possible combinations open to them, allowing full freedom and adaptability to any requirements.
(Sarah Rushton-Read)
