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Introduction and Performance Features
Performance Features
1LD/HP Pat. No. 5,151,943
Gold Plated Input onnectors
The CS350 input connectors are gold plated or superior
corrosion resistance and high electrical conductivity.
Five Tweeter Bessel Function Array
The CS350 utilizes ive tweeters wired to produce a Bessel
Function Array. The individual tweeter amplitudes and
phase relationships are adjusted so the array acts as a high
requency point source. One advantage o such an arrange-
ment is a very smooth and even acoustic polar response.
This allows the listener to move o axis without su ering a
change in high requency output. The use o multiple tweet-
ers, combined with a mechanical heat sink, also provides
greatly increased power handling at high requencies.
Patented LD/HP Technology
The McIntosh Low Frequency and Midrange Loudspeaker
Elements eature the patented LD/HP motor structure. This
design, when compared to conventional Loudspeaker Ele-
ments, reduces distortion signi icantly. It also increases
power handling and e iciency.
Shielded Magnetic Field
The CS350 may be used in Home Theater Installations
near a television receiver or monitor without causing the
television image to degrade. McIntosh has designed special
shielding around the magnetic structure o the CS350 Loud-
speaker Elements to prevent inter erence.
High Power Handling
The Loudspeaker Elements and crossover components o
the CS350 are all chosen or use with power ul ampli iers
up to 350 watts.
High Efficiency
The Loudspeaker Elements used in the CS350 Loud-
speaker System have also been designed or high e i-
ciency. As a result any McIntosh Power Ampli ier, even
our smallest, will provide satis ying room illing sound.
Automatic Overload Protection
The CS350 has built-in Loudspeaker Element Protection in
the orm o three automatic resetting solid-state devices as
a part o the crossover network.
Adjustable Stabilizer Bar
The CS350 Loudspeaker System is equipped with an ad-
justable stablizer bar, attached to the back o the cabinet, to
prevent the speaker rom rocking. Its adjustability allows
the CS350 to be angled down when the speaker is placed
above a video display.
The McIntosh CS350 Loudspeaker System is designed or
Home Theater and Music Reproduction. It is a three-way
system with two 6-1/2 inch LD/HP1 woo ers, one 4 inch
LD/HP midrange and ive 1 inch dome tweeters. The
CS350 comes with a stabilizer bar that attaches to the back
o the cabinet. This bar prevents the speaker rom rocking
when it is placed on its side. It is adjustable so that the
CS350 can be angled down when the speaker is placed
above the video display. The CS350 is designed to work pri-
marily as a Center Channel Loudspeaker in a Home The-
ater System, but will unction equally well as a Le t or
Right (Main), or Surround Loudspeaker. The McIntosh logo
can clip anywhere on the grille rame. This is use ul in the
event CS350s are stood on end and used as Le t and Right
speakers.
The CS350 Loudspeaker per ormance is equivalent to
the quality o McIntoshs legendary line o Ampli iers,
Preampli iers, Signal Processors and Signal Sources, with-
out imparting distortion or coloration o its own. It also
complements the capabilities and the remarkably low distor-
tion o McIntosh Power Ampli iers.
Many o todays loudspeakers are designed only or
Home Theater applications. Not so with the CS350. It is
also designed or the accurate reproduction o music. Mo-
tion picture sound e ects, explosions, screams, and vehicle
crashes require a wide dynamic range and high sound lev-
els. These sounds are such that a speaker system having
moderate distortion would reproduce them with little audible
di erence. This is not true with the reproduction o music.
Music is by nature and de inition harmonious. To reproduce
it accurately, all orms o distortion, both harmonic and
intermodulation, must be kept to a minimum. This has been
the result o the design o the new McIntosh CS350 Loud-
speaker System. Each loudspeaker element and crossover
component has been care ully designed or durability, e i-
ciency, and above all, low distortion. The McIntosh CS350
Loudspeaker System will reproduce music accurately and
unction as an excellent Home Theater Loudspeaker.
Introduction