The Control® 23-1L is a two-way 3” speaker with rich sonic character, wide coverage, consistent dispersion, versatile mounting, and a contemporary high-design look that fits into a wide range of decors. This makes Control 23-1L an excellent choice for a wide variety of applications, including retail stores, restaurants, health clubs, theme parks, educational facilities, hospitality, music cafes, leisure venues, and anywhere where a top quality compact indoor/outdoor foreground/background music (and/or paging) speaker is required.
FEATURES
- 3” woofer with woven fiberglass cone
- 1/2” PEI diaphragm tweeter with fluid cooling
- Contemporary, high-design appearance
- Built-in InvisiBall® mounting hardware, plus available U-bracket
- Weather resistant enclosure and transducers
- Wide 100° x 100° coverage
- 50 Watt power handling (100 Watt program)
- High fidelity sound character with broad frequency response of 70 Hz – 20 kHz
SPECIFICATIONS
- Frequency Range (-10dB)
- 70 Hz to 20 kHz
- Frequency Response (±3 dB)
- 95 Hz - 19 kHz
- Power Rating
- 100W Continuous Program (2 hrs) *Continuous Pink Noise rating is IEC-shaped pink noise with a 6 dB crest factor. Continuous Program Power is defined as 3 dB above the Continuous Pink Noise Rating and is a conservative expression of the system’s ability to handle normal speech and music program material.
- Maximum Input Voltage
- 17.2 V RMS (2 hrs), 34.4 V peak
- Maximum SPL (1m)
- 103 dB ave. Continuous Pink Noise (109 dB peak) *Calculated from sensitivity and power handling, exclusive of power compression.
- Sensitivity
- 86 dB, 1W/1m (ave. 100 Hz – 10 kHz) *Half-space (on-wall) averaged 100 Hz – 10 kHz, 2.83V.
- Coverage Angle
- 100° x 100° *Coverage angle (-6 dB) average between 1.5 kHz and 12 kHz.
- Directivity Factor (Q)
- 5.8 (averaged 1kHz – 16kHz)
- Directivity Index (DI)
- 7.2 dB (averaged 1kHz – 16kHz)
- Impedance
- 8 ohms
- Crossover Type
- 2nd order low-pass, 2nd order high-pass
- Recommended Protective High-Pass
- 70 Hz high-pass (24 dB/oct) *For protection against driving below resonant frequency and to keep transformer out of saturation.
- Drivers
- LF: 76 mm (3.0 in), woven-fiberglass cone with pure butyl rubber surround with Weather-Edge frame protection, high-temp Kapton™ voice coil former, high-temp voice coil wire, optimized cone geometry, linear suspension spider, and FEA optimized motor structure.
- HF: 13 mm (0.5 in) PEI diaphragm, low-viscosity ferro-magnetic fluid, and lightweight Kapton™ voice coil former.
- Enclosure
- High Impact Polystyrene (HIPS), painted with highly-UV resistant paint on white (-WH) version for maximum UV fade resistance.
- Grille
- Highly zinc-plated, finished in durable TGIC polyester powdercoating. MTC-23WMG-1 (&-WH) available with WeatherMax™ multi-layer foam and tight-weave mesh vapor barrier backing.
- Mounting Hardware
- InvisiBall™ wall-mounting system included. Two 6 mm attachment points (on top and bottom) for optional MTC-23UB-1 (&-WH) U-bracket. Secondary safety attachment loop point on back panel.
- Outdoor Capability
- IP-44 per IEC529 (IP-55 when installed with the optional MTC-23WMG-1 WeatherMax™ grille and either MTC-PC2 or MTC-PC3 panel cover.) Exceeds MilSpec 810 for humidity, salt-spray, temperature & UV. Passes MilStd-202F for salt spray and ASTM G85 for acid-air plus salt spray. Optional MTC-23WMG-1 WeatherMax™ grille for breaking up driving rain and for especially difficult environments.
- Input Connectors
- Screw-down terminal strip, zinc-plated copper based, nickel-plated metal screws and washers. Accepts up to 9 mm outside 4 mm inside open lugs (#6, #8, or #10 lug), plus bare wire (up to 12 AWG / 2.5 mm2). Optional MTC-PC2 and MTC-PC3 protective panel covers available to provide sealed entrance for additional weather protection.
- Agency Rating
- ROHS-compliant
- Colors
- Black (RAL9004)
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
- 200 x 141 x 111 mm (7.9 x 5.6 x 4.4 in); 141 mm (5.6 in) deep total when mounted on InvisiBall wall-mount bracket. *In vertical orientation
