“Entry-level” doesn’t apply to its sound”

 

 

The Atlantic Technology IWTS-4 LCR IP is our lowest-priced in-wall speaker but it borrows much of its technology and simplicity of installation from its more costly brethren.  It will also support the newest IP streaming Audio Systems (Netstream).

This speaker uses a 6 ½” GLH (Graphite-Loaded

Homopolymer) woofer for solid bass down to 57 Hz

and Atlantic’s renowned 1” soft-dome Low Resonance

Tweeter (LRT™). Because of its low crossover point,

this remarkable tweeter allows the IWTS-4 LCR

to deliver much wider midrange dispersion than

conventional in-wall speakers for greater placement

flexibility, without the severe acoustic and mechanical

drawbacks of the so-called “pivoting tweeter.”

Here’s why: The woofer in conventional in-wall

speakers handles too much of the midrange and

woofers send out the midrange like a flashlight beam—

pretty much only straight ahead, with very little sound

side-to-side or up-and-down. So even if these speakers

have a pivoting tweeter, that doesn’t really help, since

it’s the woofer, not the tweeter, that handles the

directionally-critical midrange frequencies.

What’s needed is a speaker where the tweeter, not the woofer, handles more of the midrange, because unlike woofers, tweeters spread their sound out over a very

wide area.  Because of this, Atlantic has engineered an extremely sophisticated, high-performance tweeter (the Low Resonance Tweeter, or LRT™) for the IWTS-4 LCR, and it can play most of the middle tones as well, thereby relieving the woofer of having to do what woofers can’t do. Our LRT tweeter spreads out the midrange sound over a much wider angle than the woofer, so the IWTS-4 covers the entire listening area beautifully in both the midrange and treble, even when it’s mounted high up on the wall. This tweeter technology was originally developed for our In-Wall Closed Box series (retailing for up to $1000 ea.), but is now available in the IWTS-4 LCR, at a fraction of the price.

 

We know of no similarly-priced in-wall speaker that can match its performance.

$250 ea