Niles Audio AT5 Speaker User Manual


 
Features and Benefits
Woven Carbon/Fiber Glass Woofer
with Butyl Rubber Surround,
Dispersion Stabilizer, Vented Pole
Piece and Custom Debris Screen
The Niles AT Advanced Technology series
loudspeakers employ an advanced cone
material that combines carbon and fiber glass
in a special weave that maximizes stiffness
and minimizes cone break up. The result is a
cone that delivers deep, powerful bass and
unrivaled dynamic response. The woofer also
features a vented pole piece for increased
bass linearity and a Butyl Rubber Surround
for improved midrange damping and clarity
as well as moisture resistance. A hyperbolic
dispersion stabilizer helps to maintain
smooth frequency response off-axis. Custom
debris screens keep insulation from coming
in contact with the woofer.
1” Teteron Tri-laminate Tweeter
Housed in a Precision Adjustment
Mechanism
The AT series Teteron Tweeter employs a
tri-laminate design consisting of an inner
textile layer which forms the dome, a high
damping layer to kill unwanted resonances
and an outside layer of urethane to add
stiffness and prevent breakup modes. The
result is a transparently clear, sweet, natur-
al sounding tweeter which still maintains
extended frequency response. This
advanced tweeter is housed in a precision
adjustment mechanism which permits the
tweeter to be accurately positioned after
installation for optimum performance and
without the diffraction distortion typical of
traditional pivoting tweeters.
Antiresonant Wave Bracing
The AT speaker’s baffle design employs
specially molded ribs that increase the
rigidity of the baffle and raise the resonant
frequency so that less “out-of-phase” can-
cellation takes place. Equally important,
the ribs are curved and crossed to further
shift vibration modes away from low-bass
canceling frequencies. This keeps bass
tones rich and dynamic.
Front-Mounted Bass & Treble Controls
Niles Advanced Technology speaker
models feature four position baffle-
mounted tone controls for Bass and
Treble that enable instant fine tuning
after the speakers are installed. This fea-
ture helps to lessen the effects of less than
perfect placement or other room
acoustics anomalies.
Snap-in Baffle Assembly
This proprietary Niles design enables
installers to attach Niles loudspeaker
assemblies to installed frames without addi-
tional hardware or tools. Niles' Snap-in
design makes it easy to upgrade Niles'
speakers after installation without the has-
sles associated with removal and re-instal-
lation of traditional designs. Snap-in baffles
make installation of Niles speaker baffle
easier and faster than other in-wall brands.
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Features and Benefits
Introduction
The AT or Advanced Technology group of
In-Wall Loudspeakers is designed to deliv-
er truly stunning performance with opti-
mum installation flexibility. All models in
the AT series are constructed using the
highest quality components and utilize
advanced materials technology to create
speakers capable of reproducing both
music and movie soundtracks with incred-
ible realism and sonic impact. They are
perfect anywhere that ultimate sound
quality is required.
An AT5/AT6/AT8 Speaker Kit; and the
corresponding Bracket Kit (5, 6 or 8) is
required to install one pair of
AT5/AT6/AT8 In-Wall loudspeakers in
either new or existing construction.