INTRODUCTION
Thank you for selecting Tannoy loudspeakers developed in the UK by our dedicated team of design engineers. The Tannoy Arena Highline 500™ speakers are designed to blend perfectly into your room and provide a sound stage which is at least as good as you would hear in a commercial movie theatre, but in the comfort of your own home. You have a choice of speakers, mounting brackets and floor-stands to help you to get the very best sound quality and appearance. Tannoy Professional Studio Monitor speakers are used by mixing engineers, producers and directors in the creation and production of many movie soundtracks. Tannoy Arena Highline 500™ home cinema speakers are engineered with the same technology, design and manufacturing principles as Tannoy Studio Monitors to create realistic special effects with clear crisp dialogue capability. The carefully designed appearance of Tannoy Arena Highline 500™ system components allows discreet placement of the speakers giving the movie screen pride of place as the centre of the visual movie action.
TANNOY DUAL CONCENTRIC™
The Arena Highline 500™ loudspeakers incorporate the legendary Tannoy Dual Concentric™ drivers. Intensive research and development has produced an all-new version of this proven technology that builds upon the legendary performance of this exclusive Tannoy driver design. The time coherent, point source and constant directivity nature of the dispersion characteristics inherent in the Dual makes it an accepted industry standard in studio monitoring. By exceeding the rigorous demands of the recording and mastering environment Tannoy can ensure that playback performance in the home, whether in two channel stereo or multi channel home cinema mode, is strictly controlled to accurately reflect the sound engineer’s artistry. In nature all sounds emanate from a single point in space. The high frequency unit of the Dual, centrally mounted in the throat of the main mid/bass driver, is so positioned as to acoustically replicate this single point source; delivering an incredibly natural sound with an incredibly wide imaging 'sweet spot' that creates an expansive soundstage with remarkably focused placement of vocals and instrumentation.
TANNOY WIDEBAND™
Tannoy has incorporated its own WideBand™ technology into the design of all Arena Highline loudspeakers. Not only does this exceptional in-house technology resolve fine detail of high frequency information but it also effectively enhances the listening experience throughout the whole frequency range. The WideBand™ high frequency system creates an increased immediacy, airiness and impact making music sound more natural and true to life. Music contains transient information and rich harmonics beyond the range of human hearing for pure tones. Even bass notes have leading edge transients reaching 30kHz. Operating between the roll-off point of the exclusive Tannoy mid-bass driver unit and 51kHz, the Tannoy WideBand™ high frequency unit will accurately reproduce the leading edge of individual notes allowing the listener to experience the entire bandwidth information of instruments. In addition, the extension of the frequency response, by fully two octaves, corrects time and phase response within the bandwidth of normal human hearing. Taking these acoustical phase anomalies beyond the audible range adds realism to the soundstage through improvements in imaging and the placement of instrumentation and movie special effects.
