"Overcoming distortion and thermal compression are major challenges for anyone designing industry-leading, professional loudspeakers," says product development director Ian White. "By focusing on the key areas of magnet, chassis and voice coil, we've created a new kind of driver that represents an evolution in technology to achieve very high levels of performance."
Concentrated research and development at Celestion's new purpose-built facility in Ipswich has resulted in a new kind of driver, say Celestion. FTR's design focuses on thermal control, enabling heat to be conducted rapidly away from the voice coil assembly, minimizing the effect of thermal compression. It also improves upon the distortion performance of many LF drivers, through an innovative magnet structure, evolutionary voice coil construction and an optimized chassis design, say Celestion.
FTR can handle up to 1000W RMS, which requires a large voice coil, in turn demanding a substantial magnet. The cast aluminium chassis is robust enough to support a larger magnet and has been designed to dissipate more heat away from the voice coil, say Celestion.
Five of these drivers form the initial offering from the product range, intended for a variety of typical pro audio applications: these are the FTR18-4080FD (18", 1000W), the FTR18-4080F (18", 600W), the FTR15-4080FD (15", 1000W), FTR15-4080F (15", 600W) and the FTR15-3070C (15", 400W).
(Lee Baldock)
