Tag mclaren audio F1 AVANTGARDE LOUDSPEAKER User Manual

02 welcome

04 features

10 installation

16 running in

17 care and maintenance

18 technical data

contents

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F1 AvantGarde loudspeaker

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welcome

welcome

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Dr. Udo Zucker – Physicist, PhD in

Science, designer of award-winning

control electronics, dedicated audiophile

and Chief Executive Officer of TAG

McLaren Audio

Award-winning TAG McLaren technology

- the TAG2000 F1 powertrain 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
high-end audio equipment in the world.

Like many people, I often have my best
ideas when relaxing to a piece of music.
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 electronics
engineers whose heritage of award­winning hi-fi and world-beating electronic
control systems is envied by many and
equalled by few.

TAG McLaren Audio F1-

RLA AvantGarde loudspeaker

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 material
technology is used to make resonant - 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.

I have been an audiophile for more than
30 years, and have used and upgraded many,
many audio systems in that time. Our aim is
sonic perfection combined with aesthetic
delight and solid build quality – a rare
combination in hi-fi but one which TAG
McLaren Audio is delivering.

It is our audio engineers’ technical
capability which provides outstanding sound
quality and our stylists’ ability to look into
the future which makes the F1 AvantGarde
loudspeaker so desirable. Employing
‘Composite Sandwich Technology’,
combined with aluminium reinforced low
distortion drive units the F1 AvantGarde
loudspeaker sounds so good, as if the
technology comes from another world.

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features

features

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type: RLA

Thank you for purchasing the TAG McLaren Audio F1

AvantGarde ‘Composite Sandwich Technology’ loudspeaker.

F1 AvantGarde loudspeakers

We are convinced this loudspeaker will redefine your

listening experience.

The F1 AvantGarde ‘Composite Sandwich Technology’
loudspeaker is a high performance, 3
loaded loudspeaker system capable of reproducing music with
outstanding clarity and transparency.The F1 AvantGarde is
ideal for all room sizes, including larger rooms which require
greater sound pressure level to recreate a performance with
realistic volume levels.The combination of a unique enclosure
with lowest distortion drive units and no-expense-spared
crossovers generates sound reproduction at a level of
transparency and clarity which is extremely rare to find. Music
reproduction pushed to a new limit.

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/2way, 4th order reflex-

TAG McLaren ‘Composite Sandwich
Technology’

TAG McLaren pioneered the use of
composite technology in F1 motor racing
almost 20 years ago, at a time when only
the most advanced aerospace programmes
used carbon fibre composites exploiting
their extraordinary combination of strength
and weight.

The F1 AvantGarde’s loudspeaker
cabinets are constructed using an open
mould system with multiple split lines to
allow the lamination of shapes with complex
curvatures.The enclosure walls incorporate
integrally moulded damping cores with two
composite epoxy skins.The enclosures are
subdivided to provide three chambers.
These chambers are created by two solid
bulkheads dividing the cabinet in such a way
as to provide the required chamber volumes,
brace the cabinet walls and ensure there are
no parallel reflective surfaces.

This construction, which we call
‘Composite Sandwich Technology’ creates a
structurally inert and inherently well
damped enclosure to ensure that the only
acoustic energy generated emanates from
the drive units and not the enclosure.
Preventing the enclosure from flexing and
re-radiating energy reduces distortion and
colouration offering a neutral and accurate
portrayal of the performance.

The resulting sound quality of this rather
complex design process is extremely clear
and transparent, almost like an electrostatic
speaker, but still with the punch which
makes electro-dynamic speakers so
desirable. It is sound reproduction at the
very forefront of technology!

optimised dispersion enclosure geometry

Marrying form and function harmoniously,
the smooth and irregular curvature of the
enclosure has been carefully designed to

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