Coda Audio AiRay Demo Day

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CODA AUDIO UK DEMO DAYS

The speaker specialist hosted a brace of product demonstrations at the Dominion Centre in London’s Wood Green to shed light onto 2 of its main product lines - APS and TiRAY.

Having worked with the Dominion Centre for many years, CODA UK’s Technical Sales Manager, Scott Fraser said it was an easy demo space to choose. The centre - formerly known as Edmonton Temple - has a multicultural congregation, representing a diverse range of nationalities.

Fraser hosted 2 demo days at the venue on 10-11 July, inviting engineers, system integrators, distributors, end users and press to attend. First up for demonstration was APS, with 3 tops stacked atop 3 subwoofers. “APS is unique in that fact that if you get up and walk around the room, you can’t actually hear the separation point between the boxes,” Fraser explained. Normally with a point source system, when you walk around the room from left to right, you’d hear the separation point. But due to CODA Audio’s advanced design using the DDC assembly with its APS-Coupler we have entirely removed that problem. The series is extremely versatile, with options to stack or hang the boxes in a variety of configurations. “If you use 20º APS boxes, you can make a complete circle using 18 of them,” he continued. A total of 18 APS tops, the amplification and all the rigging weighs in at just 750kg - making it a lightweight solution for its capabilities.

When the Coupler is added to the mix, the dispersion pattern of the boxes can be altered. The Coupler combines the energy from all transducers to perform as a single source. For the demo set-up, Scott used three 90º boxes (45º up and 45º down) and 20º wide, so altogether it offered 60º by 90º. It’s an option to make the dispersion asymmetric and to help

determine the angle, a clever feature has been built into the grill, which will tell the user what angle they have on the most part of the Coupler.

“The subwoofers in the APS Series go down to 28Hz, which if you compare with other companies that have Infra subwoofers in their range, it’s only those Infra subs that go down as low as our regular subwoofers, it gives us something extra to offer,” said Fraser. “Similar to the tops, it’s an easy system to use, put equal boxes per side or hang sub-arrays. The whole system is so small and compact that it fits in a regular sized van!”

CODA Audio’s TiRAY (small line array system) was also on display, a series of top boxes that can go down to a useable 70Hz, or if a single 12-inch flyable Lo Frequency extension box box sits at the bottom of the array, it can achieve 40Hz. The TiRAY at the Dominion Centre was demonstrated with a U4 Universal Subwoofer- a dual 18-inch subwoofer, ideal for installations providing a frequency response down to 30Hz.

The CUE Series of stage monitors were put to the test. “We’ve got 2 of the 4 monitors from the range and they go very loud,” added Fraser. “Today, we have the CUE One, a dual 12-inch and for our drummer and keyboard player, there’s a 1.4-inch coaxial driver inside too, with a dispersion of 55º up and 40º down. It’s a real 143dB peak SPL monitor and weighs 32kg.

“The CUE Two is a triaxial, 3 -way, 15-inch box and is very compact at just 25kg. When you look at a touring rig and you want to have a stereo monitoring system but it’s got to come in at a certain price point, that’s where we come in - we’ve got the performance, they sound great and they go really loud,” he explained. Fraser also brought in a couple of HOPS 8 and HOPS 5 cabinets for attendees to listen to as front / side fill to show of the flexibility of the high output point source systems.

With the presentation complete, visitors were encouraged to walk around the space, listening to the two different systems playing a series of tracks. The monitors, in particular, were definitely put through their paces by the in-house band and were met with a positive reception from the audience. An Allen & Heath dLive system was used for mixing requirements on the day.

Summing up the 2-day event, Fraser said: “We would like to thank the Dominion Centre for the use of their facility and of course thank so many people coming out to hear just how good CODA Audio is. We look forward to expanding the business in the UK with significant partners.” TPi http://codaaudio.com

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