Eminent Know-how has introduced the Mannequin Twenty Two – the “world’s first flat panel lively guitar speaker.” Tremendous-lightweight and in regards to the measurement of a chunky image body, this 120-decibel oddity can now be your guitar amp, cab and FRFR speaker.
It is fairly a step ahead from the Mannequin Twenty we first noticed in 2022. That was only a speaker cab, maintain the cab. Standing 32 in (812 mm) tall and 22 in (558 mm) huge, and weighing a particularly roadie-friendly 23 lb (10 kg), its complete back and front panels had been lively diaphragms pushed by a proprietary transducer someplace within the center.
You needed to carry your personal amplifier, although; it’d take something from roughly 20 W-100 W, and its makers promised sonic response as much as an octave increased and decrease than an everyday heavyweight guitar cab, with “much less compression and far wider dispersion.”
It was ok to impress John Mayer’s outdated guitar instructor (and Berkeley professor) Tomo Fujita, who ran a Milkman Dairy Air 30-W head by way of it and loved the expertise a lot that he bought a bit misplaced in it and forgot he was alleged to be off to do some actual work. Try the video under.
Emiment Know-how Mannequin Twenty Flat Speaker DEMO
The brand new Mannequin Twenty Two, launched at this 12 months’s NAMM present, takes the idea a lot additional. For starters, it is half the scale, at 16 x 22 inches (41 x 56 cm) – and weighs significantly much less at simply 16.5 lb (7.5 kg), making it an excellent friendlier amp to take to a gig.
What’s extra, it is now absolutely lively, with its personal built-in 350-W energy amp, which permits it to run as a full-range, flat response (FRFR) speaker. Which means you’ll be able to run all types of guitar amp modeling items, like Fender’s Tone Grasp Professional, or IK Multimedia’s ToneX pedal, straight by way of it and make it sound like all types of drugs. You can too run vocals, keyboards, or a CD participant by way of it, and deal with it like a small PA system able to as much as 120 decibels.
Plus, it is also bought its personal modeling system inbuilt. There is a fundamental clear, high-headroom preamp, designed for each acoustic and electrical guitarists to make use of at the side of a pedalboard, and there is a cab voice you should use both at the side of the built-in preamp, or with an exterior amp just like the earlier mannequin.
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It is also a good bit cheaper; the place the outdated one was US$2,600 a pop, the brand new one’s promoting for $1,699. Sadly, the corporate does not appear to have put collectively any video to showcase it – and certainly, the photographs do not even allow us to see what the management format appears to be like like.
But when advertising is not a robust swimsuit for Eminent Know-how, it certain appears these guys make one distinctive and noteworthy amplifier, that is bought to be one of many best in the marketplace to haul round. This is cheers to that! We stay up for listening to it.
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