Overview
Ultra-Compact Indoor/Outdoor Background/Foreground Speaker
The Control® 23-1-WH 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 23-1 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
- Components:
• 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) in direct 8Ω setting, plus built-in 15 Watt 70V/100V multi-tap transformer.
- High fidelity sound character with broad frequency response of 70 Hz – 20 kHz.
Specs
| Frequency Range (-10 dB) | 70 Hz to 20 kHz | |
| Frequency Response (+/-3 dB) | 95 Hz - 19 kHz | |
| Power Rating | 100W Continuous Program (2 hrs) 50 W (200W peak), Continuous Pink Noise (2 hrs) 40 W (160W peak) Continuous Pink Noise (100 hrs) |
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| Maximum Input Voltage | 17.2 V RMS (2 hrs), 34.4 V peak | |
| Maximum SPL | 103 dB ave. Continuous Pink Noise (109 dB peak) | |
| Sensitivity | 86 dB, 1W/1m (ave. 100 Hz – 10 kHz) | |
| Coverage Angle | 100° x 100° | |
| Directivity Factor (Q) | 5.8 (averaged 1kHz – 16kHz) | |
| Directivity Index (DI) | 7.2 dB (averaged 1kHz – 16kHz) | |
| Nominal Impedance | 8 ohms (THRU setting) | |
| Crossover Type | 2nd order low-pass, 2nd order high-pass | |
| Transformer Taps | 70V: 15W, 7.5W, 3.7W, 1.8W 100V: 15W, 7.5W, 3.7W Insertion Loss <0.43 dB at any tap setting Thru Setting: 8Ω nominal |
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| Recommended Protective High-Pass |
70 Hz high-pass (24 dB/oct) (for 8Ω operation and for all 70V/100V taps settings). | |
| Low Frequency Driver | 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. | |
| High Frequency Driver | 13 mm (0.5 in) PEI diaphragm, low-viscosity ferro-magnetic fluid, and lightweight Kapton™ voice coil former. | |
| Enclosure Material | 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. | |
| Installation | 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. | |
| Environmental | 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. | |
| Termination | 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; Transformer UL Recognized per UL1876 | |
| Colors | white (-WH, RAL9016) | |
| 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. | |
| Net Weight | 1.8 kg (4.0 lbs) | |
| Shipping Weight | 3.85kg (8.5 lbs) for the pair-pack (for 2 speakers) 12.0kg (26.5lbs) for the master-pack (for 6 speakers) | |
| Included Accessories | InvisiBall™ wall-mounting system), 4 mm x 80 mm hex key | |
| Optional Accessories | MTC-23UB-1 – Yolk-type U-bracket (-WH) MTC-23WMG-1 – WeatherMax grille with backing (-WH) MTC-23CM – Ceiling-Mount InvisiBall adapter (-WH) |
