RCF celebrates 25 years of ART speakers with the introduction of a new generation of the series, featuring a sleek new design and 6 active speaker models to choose from. The new ART 9 speaker series sets new standards in professional audio with its innovative electro-acoustic design and extreme versatility, offering outstanding performance in a rugged, tour-ready enclosure. The ART 9 is a reliable audio solution that can be used as FOH system, fill speaker or stage monitor.
Power
Common to all models is the best-in-class 2,100 watt two-channel Class D amplifier with integrated DSP. The ART 912-A, in conjunction with a 12″ woofer with 2.5″ voice coil and the newly developed 1″ compression driver with 1.75″ Kapton voice coil, provides ideal frequency response from 50 to 20,000 Hz.
The amplifier is energy efficient, so no fan is required. For improved performance, the new RCF transducers are made of advanced materials such as Kapton, titanium and neodymium. Its durability is up to ten times greater than its predecessors. Redesigned bass drivers get more stability at high load and less distortion. The exceptional clarity and minimal distortion of the new Kapton driver is matched by a remarkable sound pressure level of up to 130 dB.
The ART 912-A is up to 50% more powerful than previous models.
The innovative electroacoustic design of the new ART 9 speakers lies within their enclosure. The new True Resistive Waveguide (TRW) is the result of detailed improvements to both the transducer design and the bass reflex port through finite element analysis and hundreds of measurements in RCF’s anechoic chambers.
The new shape and positioning of the bass reflex ports, combined with the innovative FiRPHASE technology, ensure that the ART900 speakers acoustically merge the high and bass drivers into a single sound source for a perfect sound image. The TRW waveguide mimics a resonance-free and purely resistive load. This avoids the high frequency distortion of a classic horn in front of the tweeter. The radiation angle of the waveguide with its asymmetrical shape ensures an adapted radiation. This ensures consistent volume, homogeneous sound and a perfect stereo image throughout the audience area.
These components work in harmony with two RCF-exclusive DSP algorithms. One for phase linearization and crossover design, the other for woofer excursion management. Thanks to FiRPHASE, an FIR technology, a coherent distribution of sound without phase distortion is enabled, ensuring minimal latency in the system. A Bass Motion Control to control the woofer excursion knows the complete image of the dynamic behaviour of the transducer to limit over-excursion. This allows a completely free signal reproduction and avoids high-pass filters as well as broadband limiters and compressors. As a result, the speaker is able to reproduce the input signal at all volumes across the entire audible spectrum, preserving all the nuances of the music with deep, detailed bass response.
Elegant housing, ergonomic handles
The elegant black enclosure is made of a special polypropylene composite material with a radical new design concept. RCF’s M-Brace internal reinforcement design connects four sides of the enclosure to the amplifier, preventing any deformation for a completely insensitive enclosure with increased acoustic damping even at maximum volume. The M-Brace stiffening also provides greater resistance to mechanical stress.
With ergonomic handles on both sides and the top, the speaker is easy to transport. There is a mount on the bottom for mounting on a tripod or subwoofer spacer pole. Each model can also be flown, wall or truss mounted using multiple M10 rigging points or special accessories.
Designed with transparent and clear music reproduction in mind, the new ART 9 series is manufactured at RCF in Italy to ensure optimum build quality.
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