Tannoy Flex Muscles With Major UK Product Launches At PLASA

Loudspeaker manufacturer Tannoy makes a welcome return to the PLASA show after being absent for a couple of years.
The company will be using the Earls' Court event as the perfect platform for a first UK demonstration of their newest pro-audio product lines, VQ and QFlex, as well as exhibiting some of the existing V-Series loudspeaker range.
The new Tannoy VQ Series is a range of revolutionary loudspeaker designed for any application where precise directional control, outstanding sonic performance, and high SPL's are critical issues, such as large corporate AV systems, stadiums, large dance clubs, live concert hall, theatres, houses of worship and open-air venues.
Utilising precision engineering and design, the VQ series can produce enough power and clarify to be used individually, maintaining your building's aesthetics, unlike line array solutions.
The VQ's high sensitivity ensures exceptional SPL levels can be achieved with a very modest amount of amplifier power. As an example, the VQ 60 will produce 115dB for 1 Watt; and 138dB (144dB peak) for only 200 Watts of amplifier power.
With the Houses of Worship sector in mind during the development of VQ, VQ enjoyed a successful US launch earlier this summer at June's InfoComm2008 in Las Vegas. Some leading audio consultants and specifiers had exceptional praise for the new product including PMK Consultants' David H. Stearn, who commented: "The majority of theatre and auditorium venues require a loudspeaker, with full vocal range projection, at 120'. The Tannoy VQ series gives me the modular tools, power handling and true constant directivity, through the vocal range, to serve those clients."
The other big Tannoy product launch at PLASA is QFlex, a series of self-powered, digitally steerable loudspeaker arrays using 'beam-steering' DSP technology. By focusing the acoustical output in the target directions where it is needed Tannoy's revolutionary new range is designed specifically to overcome intelligibility problems, associated with highly reverberant surroundings.
QFlex will satisfy a host of audio installation requirements such as airports and other transportation hubs, shopping malls, conference facilities, museums, houses of worships and many other locations with problematic acoustics. Now a part of the VNET range of products, this architecturally pleasing system from Tannoy integrates cutting edge DSP, network control and amplification to provide class-leading steering control (+/- 70 degrees) for not only extremely intelligible speech but also music reinforcement.
Tannoy Sales, Marketing and Engineering personnel will be on hand to demonstrate the innovative VQ and QFlex models and provide information about the rest of Tannoy's versatile loudspeaker ranges.
Tannoy will be exhibiting at Stand D27 at PLASA at Earl's Court, between September 7-10.
(KMcA)