Launched in 2000 and winner of the 2001 PLASA Award for Product Excellence, the Kanguro system — the speaker within a speaker — has been upgraded.
The acoustic and mechanical designs have stayed the same, featuring 130-plus dB SPL with hi-fi quality designed for a clear sensation of “big” sound and easy adjustment. The two-channel 1000-Watt PWM amplifier module + DSP and components (a 15”, a 12” and a 1” driver) are designed to offer high headroom for a cabinet with such dimensions.
The Kanguro 2008 includes a new network card designed by Outline’s in-house technical team. The DSP is designed for control that allows it to utilize its capacity. An RJ 485 connector mounted on the sub’s rear panel can be controlled via TCP/IP protocol.
The project’s completed by proprietary software — Outline E.Q.U.I.P. (Equalization Using Internet Protocol) — which ensures a multitude of settings (ten parametric and two shelving filters, polarity, two gain and two delay controls on output, as well as the control of a virtually unlimited number of interconnected enclosures and many other possibilities).
Four presets (of which one is a factory-set default configuration) can be recalled from the rear panel of the sub at the press of a button; these are useful when there are very different acoustic requirements in the course of an evening.
At the PLASA show, Outline is also presenting its new ET250-3D turntable for measuring loudspeaker enclosures’ polar dispersion. Further details will be available shortly.
Stand K39 will also host the new mini-COM.P.A.S.S. ultra-compact line array with adjustable directivity (first consignments by the end of 2007), the entire range of DVS enclosures and the Genius M 412, a digital matrix in a single rack unit (four inputs and twelve freely configurable outputs), controllable via proprietary software and fitted with DSP.
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