Lavoce Italiana launches its next-generation 1.4” exit neodymium compression driver. Exhibiting a smooth, extended frequency response to 20kHz and low distortion, the new DN14.30TK has a 110W AES Power rating, 3” edgewound copper-clad aluminum voice coil and 108 dB sensitivity. Closely following the advanced HF design ethos of its successful bigger brother, DN14.300T, it employs the same phase plug, but in a slightly more compact product footprint (120mm diameter) with a hybrid Titanium diaphragm with a Polyimide surround.
Compared to a one-piece Titanium diaphragm and surround, the hybrid Titanium/Polyimde diaphragm assembly used on DN14.30TK offers a lower resonant frequency (Fs) due to the softer surround material. This enhances the low frequency performance around the recommended crossover point, 1.2kHz, which can help simplify the crossover designs and improve the quality for vocal reproduction.
The DN14.30TK also employs their patented Integral Input Surface (IIS) phase plug technology, which incorporates a perfectly smooth, one-piece, input surface for the dome of the phase plug which reduces the risk any misalignment issues in this critical high-pressure area. Together with its improved assembly topology, this technology ensures production batches are fully compliant to performance requirements and maintains consistency in the field.
Like all Lavoce next generation compression drivers, DN14.30TK has been designed and optimized by their R&D team in Potenza, Italy, using the company’s proprietary FEA software applications. This software includes sub-models for simulating the HF motor, dome, phase plug and the interface with a horn, and then combines them into a system level fully coupled model, which is presented in a customized GUI. This significantly speeds up the development process and produces very accurate devices, which are not only acoustically impressive like DN14.30TK and DN14.300T, but also completely optimized for production efficiency and consistency.
Pierpaolo DeMinicis, Pro Audio Division Manager, added “DN14.30TK is another elegant Lavoce product which emphasizes our commitment to premium performance HF devices which compete at the highest level. The development resources our Italian R&D team have created are industry leading and our wholly owned production facility in China is first-class, so watch this space for more exciting high frequency products to come.”
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