• 3 LCR speakers in one 50″ long enclosure 
  
• Three independent M-T-M Arrays 
  
• Can be wall mounted or placed on a shelf 
  
• Beautiful piano gloss black finish 
  

Reducing Diffraction to Ensure Maximum Intelligibility  

Sound waves emanate out from a woofer or tweeter the way that ripples in a pond emanate away from the spot where you tossed in the pebble. But if you put something in the water near that spot—like the leg of a pier—when those ripples hit the obstruction, they’ll break up into many smaller waves and the smoothness of the original wave is gone.
That’s exactly what happens when a speaker sends out its sound into a nearby obstruction—like the frame of a typical grille. The sound hits that frame—like water ripples hitting a post—and the sound breaks up, smearing the clarity of the original signal.

The drivers of the FS5 (and also our FS3, LCR2 and LCR3) are mounted in a dense resonant-free mounting plate that fits into a reciprocal cutout in the grille frame. The result is that the drivers “see” a smooth local acoustic environment, so none of their sound diffracts off the blunt inner surface of the grille frame, the way it does on a conventional speaker. Instead of multiple “ripples” interfering with each other, the FS5’s sound is always clear and unfettered, for maximum clarity.