Hnh TNA--2051 Tessen Line Array Passive System Video 1

0:00 I mean, for people who don't

Right, ladies and gentlemen, this is going to be one of my first reviews on these speakers from a company called H&H. They are the TNA2051. Now, here we have a speaker with two 5-inch and one 1.33 compression driver, also known as a CD horn. Now, the AES power output is 200 watts, continual 800 max, but if we want that in real money, it's around about 180 watts. Now, there's a lot about this speaker, so I'm going to try and go through as much as I can, and I've got a little bit of a cherry for you at the end, because at the moment we're just looking at like a box. I mean, for people who don't know speakers and whatnot, they'll probably look at this and go... What is it? Is it some kind of suitcase? Is there an opening at the top where you can put lemonade or... But you and I know it makes lots of noise and it makes people dance. So, what is it? Now, first of all, if we go back many years to when line array started appearing, you know, we'd all look at it in awe, dribble and think, how can we afford that? Probably never could because one speaker would probably cost...

Your mortgage and the rest of the village's mortgages put together, in fact probably the whole town, ridiculously expensive. But what H&H have done is they've gone, hold on a minute, why don't we make something that's affordable to the masses? Now this is one unit but ideally you would have four of them. Now each speaker comes with two brackets and they come like that. So what that means is that you can bolt these together, angle them and it's pretty much rock solid. Now each cab is 16 ohms and they're wired in such a way and also make sure your wiring if you're going to get them is correct with your cables. If you put two together you get down to eight ohms, you get four, together you get four ohms. So in a way a lot of amplifiers today are four ohms.

2:12 Inches centimetres

But again, check. And if you are a professional audio engineer, you'll know exactly what I'm on about and you'll probably think I'm talking a load of nonsense. But what I'm trying to do is keep this as simple as possible. So here it is. What I'll do now is I have a tape measure and I'll give you an idea of the size. The depth is 10.5 inches, which is 26 centimetres and because it's very slightly trapezoid, what that means is that the front of it is slightly wider than the back, so the front we are looking at about 6.25 inches, which is 16 centimetres Just about five inches, which is 13 centimeters. Okay, so on the back, very simple, yet we have the Speedcon connectors we have in and out. So you go in, out, daisy chain into second, third and or fourth, depending on how many you get. Now also, you've got small feet here, so you can sit them neatly on top of each other. Now what you will be seeing over...

4:38 All of this information, do your own research and check it out

Quite a few of my videos now is I'm going to be using these as monitors because all I've done, I've got myself a little amplifier over there and that is going to power up these. All right, so if we have a look at them, I mean what we've got here, the SPL level on these is around about 123 decibels. Now the actual frequency response is 100 hertz to 18. This is my rough kind of video where I do make mistakes, but then this is real. All of this information, do your own research and check it out. Okay, so like I said, what I've done is I've got one wired in to the amp over there and I've got another one here. Now, this is the fun bit because if you're anything like me... You love pulling things apart. Now what I will highly recommend is if you buy a new piece of kit and you think you want to open it up and have a look inside, you could void your warranty because what a lot of companies do now, they're very clever, some of the screws they'll actually put some paint on the screws and they will know if someone has taken that screw out because all the paint has disappeared and if that's the case you could

Void your warranty. So just be careful. So for the sake of you opening things up and having a look inside, I've done it for you. Now here we go. So that is what it looks like. Okay, so you've got two 5-inch, you've got a nice wide dispersion compression driver there, a really nice horn, H&H logo on the front. And let's have a look, where have I got the grill? Okay, so the grill itself is here. and you've got some a thin piece of foam i think the grill itself is one and a half millimeters thick so it's it's not cheap and cheerful all right i can't see you uh denting that very easily and because it's quite thin um you've got a lot of strength there as well and i could probably see myself taking that foam off just so you should i shouldn't i i don't know if you're one of these people who likes

6:50 I'm going to put some information in the description

The look of a system, you know, likes a look of the speakers and whatever, then do something like that. But alternatively, by keeping this on, it almost makes you think what's behind the system. You know, I mean, a lot of cheaper products, you can see the 15 or the horn or the 18 and you can see the compression drivers or the piezo little tweeters, about 6 million of them that sound terrible. But when you see a cab with just a black grill on the front, it's a little bit like, I wonder what's behind there. And that is what H&H have done. OK, so I was clever. I'm going to put some information in the description. You will see more of these. And what I'm going to do is the next video I do when I do say, I don't know, play some tunes or a mix.

I'll play them. Now, the only reason really now I'm not doing a big full-on review and using them audio-wise is because I've only got two of them. I'm not really using them to their best ability because these are meant ideally for mid and high. Having said that though, what I'm doing, I believe I'm using them in what I would class as a correct manner. It's because I've got them on a small hi-fi system, I'm having them relatively low and I've got a nice sound. So in a way what I'm doing is I'm using them in more ways than one. It's almost like, not reverse engineering, but you get a product, it's meant for A, B and C, but you go, hold on a minute. I could do the rest of the alphabet with it and still get away with it. So there you go, alright? I will put more information in the description, all the specifications, and also there will be a direct link to the H&H website, alright? So don't forget, these aren't toys, you know, they're not the sort of things you want to... Ooh, I'm going to buy some of those for Jimmy upstairs who's like 12 for his hi-fi.

Don't go doing that. You've got to be a professional because these are pro quality and I'll leave it with that. Thank you for watching. Practice and enjoy. Nice one.

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