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With LED Wall Displays inching their way into home theater environments,
this presents new challenges for installers to incorporate speakers beside
such displays. In many cases there is simply no room for speakers, except in the ceiling.
Although in-wall/ceiling speakers are not uncommon, we haven’t quite seen anything
like ASCENDO’s new DIRECTOR Series in-ceiling speakers for high-end home theaters and private screening rooms.
The new ASCENDO DIRECTOR Series is comprised of a two-way, professional AMT
waveguide speaker and 10-inch mid-woofer. The waveguide speaker is specifically
angled for ceiling mount installation, and the mid-woofer can be either wall or
ceiling mounted. The combo is sold per channel at $16,800 MSRP.
In addition, a second 10-inch mid-woofer (MSRP $4,600) can be installed to push
the system from an already insane 127dB to 130dB SPL. That’s the level of a jet
take-off and probably more headroom than most people will ever need. Nonetheless,
a remarkable achievement in dynamic capability.
DIRECTOR Overview
ASCENDO’s DIRECTOR is a direct-radiating point source speaker that is designed to
provide consistent, captivating, and powerful sound to every seat. Its flush-mount
in-ceiling design integrates invisibly for more elegant home theater and media room
designs that keep the focus on the video screen. So, even though speakers are mounted
above a video wall (or screen), sound is perceived as coming from the vertical center of the video display.
ASCENDO DIRECTOR In-ceiling and in-wall speakers left angle
Tech Note: DIRECTOR speakers can also be used in a setup that uses a non-transparent
projection screen instead of a video wall with the same effectiveness.
From Geoffrey Heinzel, ASCENDO co-managing partner: “Our design approach, as always,
is using a point source. In this case, we are using an asymmetrical, controlled-dispersion
pattern waveguide to achieve our goals,…Only point source speakers can deliver the desired
seat-to-seat performance consistency in multi-seat home theater environments, and only
a direct-radiating system is capable of the highest-performance results.”
To support the DIRECTOR concept, ASCENDO designed, developed, and tested 3D-printed special
waveguides for the DIRECTOR’s tweeter and woofer to find the best coupling between them without
significant lobing or cancellations. The speaker’s AMT-driven waveguide has asymmetrical
horizontal and vertical sound dispersion and an HF dispersion lens.
In rooms with high ceilings where steep listening angles exist, ASCENDO uses psychoacoustics
through a time-aligned, equalized, and level-matched balancing speaker positioned below the
LED wall to lower the perceived phantom sound source.
The wall channel portion of the speaker comes with a mounting plate that allows the rotation
and aiming of the speaker module in the ceiling for perfect alignment and coverage as
L/Lc/C/Rc/R speaker (any of the five channels often required for very large walls).
The optional balancing speaker used below the wall is very shallow at less than 4″ deep,
and only 7″ wide, using a powerful, point source coaxial design.
The primary in-ceiling system is a two-way, active design with external amplification and DSP.
When a balancing speaker is needed, each set of upper and lower speakers requires a
three-channel amplifier and DSP (or a processor such as Trinnov or similar,
which has these capabilities).
ASCENDO says the speaker drivers were carefully chosen to achieve record-low distortion
levels and true high-end resolution. The tweeter incorporates an AMT design,
and the woofer is a 10″ quad voice-coil, dual gap, low inductance design like
the ASCENDO 18” and 21″ drivers.
From Todd Sutherland, owner of Sutherland AV Marketing, distributor for ASCENDO in
the United States and Canada: “ASCENDO continues to innovate with application-specific
solutions for challenges like this one,…The DIRECTOR is unlike anything available,
giving the audience a realistic and exciting LED wall audio experience from an in-ceiling
system that lives up to ASCENDO’s reputation for sublime sound.”
Specifications
Speaker Type: Asymmetrical Waveguide Design with 8″ AMT and a single or double 10″ mid-woofer
Enclosure Type: Vented / Reflex
Passive | Active: Active, 2Ch DSP + 2Ch Amplifier are required
Recommended Amplifier Requirements: low-mid 71 Vrms, 100 Vpk, 8.9 A; high 62 Vrms,
88 Vpk, 3.9 A; equivalent to LF 630W@8Ω, HF 240W@ 16Ω
Recommended ASCENDO Amplifiers: DNA 2250.2
Peak Output
127 dB peak | 1 x Director sub
130 dB peak | 2 x Director sub
105 dB peak | AMT Waveguide
Frequency Range: 78 Hz – 21 kHz / -3 dB
Woofer: 10″
Tweeter: 8″ AMT
Speaker-In Connection DIRECTOR Waveguide: Neutrik Speakon Nl4
Speaker-In Connection DIRECTOR SUB 10: Neutrik Speakon Nl4
Enclosure: Internally braced birch ply
Finish: Structural paint black
Dimensions and Weight
Waveguide (WxHxD): 17.25 x 8.81 x 21.91″
Waveguide Weight: 23.15 lbs
SUB 10 (WxHxD): 12.2 x 12.6 x 13.39″
SUB 10 Weight: 18.74 lbs
Mounting Waveguide: 2 x metal mounting brackets
Mounting SUB 10: 2 x metal mounting brackets
Pricing & Availability
ASCENDO DIRECTOR Series is only available from authorized distributors, dealers,
and installers at the following prices in USD:
The DIRECTOR (Two-Way, Professional AMT Waveguide Speaker + 10” Mid-Woofer)
is $16,800 MSRP per channel.
An additional DIRECTOR SUB 10 (10” Mid-Woofer) can be added to the above
to provide an extra 3dB of peak output for $4,600 MSRP each
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