Jochen Schwarz, Fohhn's CEO comments, "We are delighted to have won a prestigious M.I.P.A. award for our Linea Focus systems. It is a great honour for this relatively new product range to receive such an accolade from the international press and we would like to thank everyone for their kind recognition and support."
Launched during 2009, the Linea Focus series is already proving popular for both mobile and fixed installation applications, particularly in environments with challenging acoustics. Its innovative design enables the vertical sound dispersion characteristics of the speaker to be directed towards specific audience areas and remotely controlled in real time, from a central location, without any need to mechanically alter the speaker's position.
Fohhn's 'Two Beam Technology' enables the Linea Focus speakers to generate two separate beams in their vertical dispersion range, allowing different audience areas (such as stalls and gallery) to be simultaneously targeted, without any reduction in distance coverage, or loss of quality. A specially developed algorithm also enables the suppression of side lobes in the speaker beam, minimizing the effects of unwanted room reflections and dramatically improving speech intelligibility.
At this year's Prolight&Sound, Fohhn unveiled two new Linea Focus models including the 4.5m flagship LFI-450 containing 32 high-performance speakers, 32 separate amplifiers and DSP processors. Fohhn loudspeaker systems are distributed in the UK by Systems Workshop.
(Jim Evans)
