Launching at Plasa 2005 will be the W8LMD and WMX, two exceedingly versatile cabinets designed to further augment the already highly successful range of Martin Audio Line Array products. Also making their debut will be a new series of high performance ceiling speakers.

Wider Waves

The Martin Audio W8LMD is a mini, wide-dispersion vertically arrayable enclosure. Designed to be used individually and in small quantities for short to medium throw (<30m) applications or as a downfill element for the W8LM. With its 20° vertical dispersion fewer cabinets cover the same area as a conventional line array element, yet still benefit from the smooth, predictable coverage of a vertically coupled system.
Using one or two W8LMD cabinets at the bottom of a W8LM array benefits the whole system. The W8LM array becomes less curved and throws further and the W8LMD’s 120° dispersion is now covering ‘front row central’ and the extreme front left and right.
The W8LMD is also effective in arrays of 1 to 4 cabinets when used over short to medium (<30m) distances and coverage areas that require a large vertical angle.
The W8LMD is a full-bandwidth system (-3dB @ 60Hz) and may be used without subwoofers in many applications. Where additional low frequency extension is required, it is ideally complimented by the WMX subwoofer from which the W8LMD can be flown, pole mounted or ground stacked.
The Martin Audio WMX is a compact, 1 x 18" high performance flown/groundstack sub-woofer featuring our trademark Hybrid™ loading. Primarily intended for use with the W8LM, it shares the same cabinet width and is directly compatible with the W8LM and its flying hardware.

Ceiling... the deal!

A welcome addition to the Martin Audio Architectural portfolio will be a completely new series of high performance ceiling speakers. The range consists of the C4.8T 25W 4" (100mm), C6.8T 75W 6.5" (165mm), C8.1T 150W 8" (200mm), C10.1 200W 10" (250mm) and the CS10 200W 10" (250mm) ceiling sub-woofer.
The C4.8T, C6.8T and C8.1T models feature a 2-way design using soft dome tweeters to achieve the widest dispersion and excellent off-axis performance. The exceptionally wide dispersion of the C4.8T and C6.8T make them particularly suitable for low ceiling areas.
The C4.8T, C6.8T and C8.1T units are set to 16 ohms as standard but contain proprietary line transformers that have excellent low frequency characteristics, and so can be easily switched to 70/100V working. The C10.1 is supplied as a 16 ohm unit with a 70/100V transformer available as an optional extra. The CS10 sub-woofer is supplied in 8 ohms.