THE NETHERLANDS — Leiden, NL-based Audio van Hooidonk recently took delivery of yet another Doppia II 9075 + DBS 18-2 system from Italian manufacturer Outline. Pictured here from left is Anton van Hooidonk, Jan Fielemon and Thomas Guijt,
Just one year after company owner Mr. Anton van Hooidonk attended an Outline demo at The Audio Specialists headquarters, they ordered a second Outline Doppia II set. More specifically, the system in question is made up of four Doppia II 9075 and four DBS 18-2 subwoofer systems. All are driven by Outline’s T-Series amps, with signal processing handled by an Outline Genius 24.
Mr. Anton van Hooidonk explains, “When I heard this FOH set for the first time, I could not believe that such small lightweight cabinets were able to produce such an amount of SPL without any compromise in headroom and fidelity. Now, having worked for a year with our first Outline set, we wanted all our gigs to experience this incredible system, so a second set was ordered.”
The Doppia cabinet — Outline remarks — features a power-to-size ratio that is unique in the point-source system scenario. It weighs 55 kg, in spite of its four large-diameter components and the sturdy fibreglass waveguides loading the mid-high frequencies (two 12-inch LF drivers, a 10-inch cone mid unit and 3-inch HF driver). It has a peak SPL of 139 dB @ 1 meter with a 61 Hz to 19.7 kHz frequency response.
An example of Outline’s innovation in loudspeaker design is integral to the DBS 18-2 design; namely the “Decoupled Baffle Subwoofer” assembly. This ingenious technique contributes to the structural integrity of the entire cabinet, as well as reducing resonance (and thus unwanted colouration) and air turbulence noise from the reflex ports (143 dB SPL peak at 1 metre).
Axel Nagtegaal, owner of The Audio Specialists (Outline’s distributor for Benelux and Germany), concludes: “The market demand for conventional FOH point-sources is still very high here, but a system has to be exceptionally good. It also needs to be flexible in set-up yet lightweight as well. Outline does just that, which has resulted in the huge success since we started distribution at the end of 2011. We wish Anton and his crew a lot of satisfaction with their latest investment.”
For more info about Outline, go to www.outline.it.
