Transducer manufacturer Lavoce Italiana has announced the new CPF082.00K weather-resistant 8-inch common HF/LF magnet coaxial driver with ABS basket.
Aimed at OEM manufacturers looking to design a high-powered permanent outdoor loudspeaker, the CPF082.00K includes a corrosion resistant ABS basket, waterproof acoustically transparent dust cap and waterproof treatment on the front side of the cone and surround. The common motor magnet structure adopts component parts from Lavoce’s range of compression drivers and features a single magnet low distortion ‘dual gap’ motor designed by their Italian R&D team using proprietary advanced linear modelling techniques.
Adapted from the steel basket version CSF082.00K, the weather-resistant CPF082.00K maintains a similar premium performance with 400W programme power handling and 95.5dB sensitivity for the LF, and 70W programme power handling and 103.5dB sensitivity for the HF. The LF woofer uses a 2-inch edge-wound copper voice coil on a glass-fibre former and the Polyimide diaphragm and surround employed for the HF uses a 1.4-inch copper-clad aluminium voice coil on a Kapton former. This combination offers a frequency range of 90-20kHz with low harmonic and intermodulation distortion due to the addition of two demodulating rings.
‘CPF082.00K comes from a version we created for our Group’s marine audio division which has been very successful, so we decided to show this strength and capability in our Lavoce catalogue,’ says International Sales Director, Kevin Shove. ‘We think it is quite a unique device considering its weather-resistant features and high-performance specification and is already gaining a lot of interest from our OEM partners.’
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