Meyer Sound's new JM-1P Arrayable Loudspeaker

Tuesday, 27th October 2009

The new JM-1P arrayable loudspeaker combines Meyer Sound's famed clarity of sound and robust, self-powered performance with their latest breakthroughs in horn design, rigging and loudspeaker control. This produces an extremely easy-to-use, highly versatile arrayable loudspeaker system powerful enough to act as a main system, but flexible enough to serve in any number of supporting roles, whether horizontal or vertical, flown or stacked.

The technology of the JM-1P provides a versatility few other loudspeakers can match. The new horn design in the JM-1P, combined with Meyer Sound's patented REM ribbon emulation manifold, yields extremely tight pattern control. This means that tight-packed JM-1P arrays exhibit very little interaction between horns, and single cabinets or pairs of cabinets can be deployed to deliver coverage only to desired areas, with minimal reflections off of walls and other surfaces, or interactions with other parts of the sound system. Meyer Sound's emphasis on low distortion enables the JM-1P to maintain its clarity and pattern control even at high levels.

The JM-1P is a two-way speaker system. The wide 53 Hz to 18 kHz operating frequency range and prodigious output of 138 dB max peak SPL (measured at one meter) is produced by one 15-inch, long-excursion, low-frequency cone driver, and a four-inch high-frequency compression driver coupled through a patented REM manifold to an extremely accurate constant-Q horn.

Meyer Sound defined the point source array with the classic UPA-1 in 1980, and the self-powered UPA-1P remains one of their top sellers today. With the tremendous technology advances of the last 12 years built into the JM-1P, Meyer Sound are now doing more than announcing a new product, they are redefining point source systems.

The optional RMS remote monitoring system provides comprehensive monitoring of system parameters on a Windows-based computer.