MK Sound CS-150, CS-35 Introduction, The Column Surround Speaker, The Tripole Surround Concept

COLUMN SURROUND SPEAKER

1. INTRODUCTION

Congratulations! Your new M&K Tripole® surround speaker will give you years of unmatched enjoyment and excitement while listening to your favorite musical and audio/video sources, whether in DVD-Audio, Dolby Digital, DTS or other discrete multichannel digital systems, Dolby Pro-Logic, or your processor's enhanced music surround modes.

We encourage you to read this owner’s manual, as there is a great deal of information provided here to help you get the best possible performance.

If you have any questions about your speaker system, please contact your M&K dealer or call the M&K factory directly at (818) 701-7010, from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM Pacific Time, Monday through Friday. We will be happy to help you with any question. Alternatively, you may send an e-mail to support@mksound.com or you can also access our web site at: www.mksound.com.

2. THE COLUMN SURROUND SPEAKER

A new concept in surround channel loudspeakers, the M&K Column Surround gives listeners an option for high quality sound in a home theater when they cannot place the surround speakers up on a wall. With its unprecedented combination of style and functionality, this real-world speaker solution lets you hear audiophile- quality sound from the surround channels of your multichannel speaker system -- without disrupting your room environment.

Out in the open, or behind a couch, chair, or other furniture, they sound and look great!

You can place your Column Surrounds virtually anywhere in your room. On its pedestal base, a freestand- ing Column Surround can be located out in the open or behind a couch, chair, or other furniture. And with its baseboard mount, you can permanently secure it to the base of any wall, without sacrificing any floor space.

Using exceptionally high-quality European drivers, the Column Surrounds produce a brilliant sound quality with an incredibly large sound, evoking the quality of M&K professional monitors. You’ll hear the world-class sound quality that has made M&K the choice of professionals.

Each Column Surround model uses M&K’s exclusive Tripole® design to deliver remarkably uniform coverage of sound in the listening room. Regardless of where listeners are seated, they will hear a smooth response, with good sonic imaging and envelopment.

The Column Surround radiates sound simultaneously as a dipole (from its left and right baffles) and a direct radiator (from its front/top baffle), thereby combining the diffused, spacious sound of a dipole speaker with the immediacy and imaging capability of the best direct radiating speakers.

3. THE TRIPOLE® SURROUND CONCEPT

The Tripole® is a new concept in surround channel speaker design, offering the performance aspects of two different types of speakers. Think of it as a dipole surround speaker that includes a very high quality direct radiating speaker in the same cabinet.

As a Tripole® , the front baffle drivers (direct radiator) operate full range. The side Dipole drivers also operate, so sound is radiated on three axis. This means that the speaker can simultaneously produce a directional stereo image in the surround channels and an enveloping sound that wraps around the listeners. The directional qualities and stereo imaging may be preferred for playing back the "split" (stereo) surrounds of 5.1 channel discrete digital recordings

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