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500-LS

High Performance In-Wall Loudspeaker

 

7 3/4" Diameter

 

Superior sound, smallest cutout.

 

The essential element of today’s most elegant audio installations: a superior full-range in-ceiling speaker no larger (and no more intrusive) than an inset light fixture. Packed with innovative technology, from the ultra-responsive and detailed Ring Radiator Tweeter to the rear-mounted space-saving oval woofer, this tiny powerhouse is an interior designer’s audiophile dream-come-true. But you don’t have to be a high-end renovator to benefit from all this performance and style. Easy drop-in installation puts superior audio technology and “invisible” speaker style into easy reach for anyone. Turn your home into an audio showplace, without showing any audio equipment!

 

  • Full-Range 3-Way Driver Array in the Smallest Diameter Innovative new patent-pending design! It’s like having a full-range, full-size speaker in a small inset lighting fixture. Adding a woofer for low frequency response frees up the midrange and tweeter for more efficient detail. To do it, we designed a deep well and mounted the Cassini oval woofer above and behind the main driver array. This innovative deep diagonal positioning allows the 50-RT cutout to be just 6" in diameter. This full-range 3-way driver array results in the kind of broad coverage and big performance usually achieved only with… bigger speakers!
  • Practically invisible grilles and minimal flanges New design! No other moderately-priced built-in speaker is this invisible. Vanishing Series Built-In Speakers feature our exclusive wafer-thin Sheer-Grille, a magnetically-secured grille that protrudes only 7mm from its surroundings. That’s just this much ----. Painted to match your décor, Vanishing Series Built-In Speakers are virtually indistinguishable from their surroundings. Sheer-Grilles have nearly transparent, ultra-small perfs, and are acoustically inert, for dynamic, unimpeded sound and more uniform coverage, even in larger rooms.
  • Timbre-Matched to Polk Audio LSi Speakers Match Vanishing LS speakers to our flagship LSi Series Loudspeakers. Timbre-matching with the same internal components, and same lightweight Aerated Polypropylene Cone material, insures utterly seamless blending from speaker to speaker. Use Vanishing Series Speakers to build a system or complete an existing LSi system.
  • Customizable Wall Distance Setting Tailors frequency response for optimum performance regardless of room shape. Ignore the usual performance-robbing suspects of corners and adjacent wall surfaces! The Wall Distance Setting gives you the power to defeat “boominess,” even in close quarters, leaving dynamic response intact.
  • Dual Bandpass Bass Ports Bandpass Ports are the way to go when you want high efficiency in small enclosures. Each Vanishing In-Ceiling Speaker sports dual Bandpass Bass Ports, smoothly funneling the angled woofer’s detailed low-frequencies down around the midrange and tweeter array. The port design eliminates “chuffing,” so your small, practically invisible in-ceiling speakers achieve superior full-range blending and broad coverage with surprisingly deep bass.
  • Easy Installation Puts the architectural elegance of “invisible” speakers within reach for anyone. In existing closed ceilings, use the Perfect Fit Template for one-cut, pop-in simplicity. Achieve secure, vibration-free efficiency with a simple turn of the patented Rotating Cam system. Pre-construction brackets are available for new-build or open-ceiling retro-fitting. Our precision-engineered minimally flanged design lets you get professional results with no additional drywall work.

 

Driver Complements

Subwoofer     1 - 5" Diameter (12.70cm)
Dynamic Balance Cassini Oval with mineral filled polypropylene diaphragm
     
Mid/Woofer  
Midrange     1 - 2 1/2" Diameter (6.35cm)
     
Tweeter       1 - 3/4" Diameter (1.91cm)
     

Electrical

Overall Frequency Response       35Hz-33kHz      
Lower -3dB Limit       48Hz      
Upper -3dB Limit       29kHz      
Nominal Impedance       8 ohms      
Recommended Amplifier Power       10-125 w/channel      
Efficiency       89 dB      
Inputs       Gold-plated spring-loaded posts      

Dimensions

Overall Diameter       7 3/4"(19.68cm)      
Cut-out Diameter       6"(15.24cm)      
Mounting Depth
(assumes 1/2" [12.7mm] wall material)
      8 7/8" (22.54cm)      
Overall Depth       9 3/8" (23.81cm)      

Shipping/Other

Product Weight       lbs. (0.00kgs)      
Shipping unit:       each      
Total Shipping Weight       6.5000 lbs. (2.95kgs)      
Speaker Warranty Lifetime  

 



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