Meyer Sound Launches MINA

Designed for live sound and installation applications facing size and weight limitations, MINA carries the same remarkable musicality and intelligibility that define other members of the MILO family loudspeakers of which many thousands are in use around the world today. With MINA, smaller venues such as theatres, ballrooms, and houses of worship can provide their audiences with superb sound transparency and impact, while benefiting from the directional vertical coverage of a Meyer Sound line array.

MINA is less than 18.5 inches wide, yet capable of producing up to 128 dB SPL at one meter. Its operating frequency ranges from 75 Hz to 18 kHz over a wide 100-degree horizontal coverage area. In addition to sightline advantages, each MINA loudspeaker weighs only 47 pounds, making it an excellent component for integrators working with historic theatres and other venues with strict rigging requirements.

Like all Meyer Sound loudspeakers designed and built in Berkeley, Calif., the low-distortion MINA exhibits the cabinet-to-cabinet consistency essential for a line array to accurately project energy where it is needed. MINA can be installed as main arrays, and can integrate seamlessly with M’elodie and MICA line arrays as fill subsystems. With its flexible rigging options and benefits as a self-powered system, sound rental companies will also find MINA a versatile and transport-friendly option for AV events and tours.

In a Meyer Sound-patented trapezoidal enclosure, a three-inch high-frequency compression driver is coupled to a low-distortion, constant directivity horn through a new acoustical combining manifold derived from the proprietary REM ribbon emulation manifold. Two 6.5-inch neodymium magnet cone drivers produce the low and mid frequencies. MINA deploys Meyer Sound’s new three-channel Class-D power amplifier and has 950 Watts of output (1900 W peak). The optional RMS remote monitoring software reports all operating parameters of each amplifier to the system operator’s computer. Other available options include weather protection and custom colours. A small footprint, light weight, and high output are all key features that distinguish MINA in the sound reinforcement marketplace.

Meyer Sound’s MINA line array loudspeaker will begin shipping in June 2010. For more information about MINA, please contact Meyer Sound at sales@meyersound.com.