Tag mclaren audio CALLIOPE CENTRE User Manual

Calliope

Aluminium Technology Loudspeaker Series

contents

02 welcome

08 getting started

09 connecting loudspeakers

10 installation

12 running in and warming up

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Centre Channel
sitting on its
metal plinth

Calliope ‘Centre Channel’ loudspeaker

13 care and maintenance

14 technical data

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heading

welcome

welcome

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Dr. Udo Zucker – Physicist, PhD in Science,

designer of award-winning electronics,

dedicated audiophile and Chief Executive

Officer of TAG McLaren Audio

Award-winning TAG McLaren technology

- the TAG2000 F1 control system has

been selected as a Millennium Product by

the British Design Council

welcome to

TAG McLaren Audio exists with one

aim in mind: to produce the very best

audio equipment in the world.

Like many people, I often have my best

ideas when relaxing to a piece of music or

watching a movie. For years, knowing the

technical capabilities of TAG McLaren, I

have nurtured the ambition to push sound

reproduction to the absolute limit; that’s

why we formed TAG McLaren Audio.

At the core of our development team

are highly experienced engineers whose

heritage of award-winning hi-fi and world-

beating electronic control systems is

envied by many and equalled by few.

In addition to our experience in the

world of hi-fi we are able to utilise our

expertise in mechanical engineering,

composite material technology, multi-layer

printed circuit boards, fast digital signal

processing, electronic noise suppression,

radio frequency technology and software

design to name but a few.

All these skills are sharpened to compete

in the toughest of all technical sports:

Formula One motor racing.We directly

apply them to enhance our high-end audio

products. For example, composite and

aluminium material technology is used to

make resonance - free loudspeaker

cabinets, suspension technology decouples

electronics from the sound field and digital

signal processing makes better home

cinema products.The list is almost endless.

TAG McLaren’s aim is sonic perfection

combined with aesthetic delight and solid

build quality, a rare combination in

hi-fi but one which TAG McLaren

Audio delivers.

Dr Udo Zucker

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welcome

welcome

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Thank you for purchasing the TAG McLaren Audio

Calliope Centre Channel loudspeaker.We are convinced it

will give you many hours of listening pleasure.

Calliope Centre Channel Loudspeaker

The Calliope Centre Channel is a magnetically shielded,

high performance, 4th order reflex-loaded loudspeaker

capable of reproducing music and voices with outstanding

clarity and transparency. It has been voiced for perfect

‘timbre matching’ to our Calliope range of loudspeakers.

enclosure technology

The Calliope Centre Channel employs

high performance materials eschewing the

traditional wooden cabinet to eradicate the

unwanted sonic signature of energy

re-radiation.The curved profile forms an

extremely stiff, single-piece aluminium

extrusion which is further reinforced with

the addition of the aluminium end caps

secured with high tension bolts.This creates

a structurally inert and inherently well

damped enclosure which ensures that the

only acoustic energy is created by the drive

units and not the enclosure.

optimised dispersion enclosure
geometry

Marrying form and function

harmoniously, the geometric form of the

enclosure has been carefully designed to

optimise the dispersion of sound energy

from the enclosure.The Calliope Centre

Channel generates an even and consistent

energy output both on and off axis resulting

in a solid and accurate image.

drive unit technology at its best

The Calliope Centre Channel

loudspeaker’s drive units have been

designed to optimise their performance

within their respective pass-bands.All

drive units are magnetically shielded to

allow the Calliope Centre Channel to be

used safely in close proximity to CRT

television screens.

The drive units are arranged in a

D’Apollito configuration and voiced for

installation above or below a screen.Their

close vicinity to each other offers a uniform

directivity with frequency and is hence

much less dependent on room geometry

than conventional designs.

The 150 mm bass/midrange units

employ a woven glass-fibre cone to create a

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