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COMMUNITY PROFESSIONAL LOUDSPEAKERS

A TRADITION OF EXCELLENCE AND INNOVATION FOR OVER 30 YEARS

Before 1967, most sound reinforcement systems were made up of components designed for use in movie theaters. Although these components worked well in theaters, the enclosures were large, bulky, heavy, and lacked output capability in the critical midrange portion of the audio spectrum. This was very evident to a young audio engineer named Bruce Howze, who was already involved in the fledgling touring sound industry, working with various rock groups. He had a vision for a better way and, as a result, founded Community Light & Sound in 1967.

His concept was simple – design and build products that meet the needs of sound reinforcement with consistently better products at a fair price. He also felt loudspeaker performance should be described in real-world terms. Community is now well known as one of the only loudspeaker manufacturers to publish accurate, detailed, and essentially raw performance data on its products using TEF™ measurements at realistic listening distances.

Community’s first product, dubbed the "LMF", was a fiberglass mid-bass horn for a 12 in. / 305 mm driver. It was efficient, amazingly light, yet strong, making it ideal for touring use. Since then, Community has been distinctively associated with fiberglass and with paying close attention to efficiency in converting electrical into acoustic energy.

Community continued to develop other unique products. The M4™ driver hit the market in 1981. This high power, midrange compression driver covers the most critical portion of the audio spectrum – 200 Hz to 2000 Hz. This removed the need for the usual crossover point right in the middle of the speech range. In keeping with not designing “me too” products, the M4 diaphragm was made of thin aluminum skins sandwiching a structural foam core – a fabrication technique still unique to Community. Recently the M4 has evolved with the development of a nonpareil carbon fiber diaphragm virtually eliminating diaphragm failure. The M200™ midrange driver appeared 2 years after the M4 with an innovative diaphragm of aluminized mylar. Community has also demonstrated to the world that big sound can come from small boxes, with the RS/VBS™ Series of electronically-controlled loudspeaker systems that has now evolved into the Community Solutions™ series.

Most recently, Community has captured the audio world’s attention again with a number of innovative products: the Leviathan II full-range horn system, the VHF100™ high frequency compression driver, the EM280™ and EM282™ extended midrange, carbon fiber diaphragm compression drivers. The EM282, M4, and VHF100 are the drivers used in the revolutionary, forced-air cooled AirForce Concert System. With AirForce Community has, in a sense, come full circle from the LMF, but this time with incomparable performance and hardware for a complete touring system.

Community’s History of Technological Firsts Include:

•First successful fiberglass MF / HF horns and giant fiberglass bass horns.

•First compression loaded midrange horn for touring systems – The LMF.

•First suspensionless diaphragm HF driver – VHF100.

•First midrange decade (200 Hz to 2 kHz) high power compression driver – M4.

•First carbon fiber diaphragm compression drivers – M4, EM280, EM282.

•First Ferrofluid-cooled professional woofers – VBS Series.

•First product series with all drivers Ferrofluid-cooled – SLS/SBS Series.

•First forced-air cooled drivers for touring system loudspeakers – AirForce.

•First passive loudspeakers with internal multi-band and multi-level processing – CSX-S2.

•First triaxial full-range horn system – Leviathan II.

•First sound reinforcement application of TDS (Time Delay Spectrometry) for signal-alignment – RS440.

•First integral signal-aligned 3-way sound reinforcement systems – RS Series.

•First TEF/TDS documented loudspeaker line – RS/VBS.

•First 3-way cinema systems – Paramount Exec. Theatre, Warner Bros. screening theatre/dubbing rooms.

•First electro-acoustic system to equal the sound level of pneumatic warning sirens.

•First to provide loudspeakers for sound coverage of an entire country – Denmark Emergency System.

•First comprehensive calibrated testing of sound reinforcement products.

•First to publish AudioCAD data on CD-ROM.

•First professional audio company with an Internet web site – http://www.loudspeakers.net

•First compact, weather-resistant, full-range horn systems - R2 Series.

•First custom configurable outdoor systems - WET Series

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