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KAM Vortex 15 A full range Speaker

First look November 2008

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Alright folks, a bit of a look at this guy here. It's from a company called Cam and it's known as the Vortex 15. It is a full range speaker. What we've got there, we've got a 15 inch speaker and that guy there is a compression driver. So this guy here will do the bass and mid, that guy there will do the treble sounds. Alright let's have a look at a bit of the specification for you. Right, this guy here is 400 watts RMS at 8 ohms. The frequency response is from 55 Hz up to 20 kHz. So, alright, what is 55 and 20? Well, 55 Hz is the low subby sound that you'll get from the big guy here. And then as we move up the scale, we get to 20 kHz, which is what we will get from that guy there, which is the compression driver. If you can see those two tiny areas there, they're the portholes.

They'll help the bass sound to move away from this particular speaker. Right, what I'll do now, pause the camera and we'll have a look at the back. Okay, what have we got here? Now, all this tells us how to configure the speak-on. And if we have a look on here, we've got pin 1 is plus, pin 1 here minus. So pin 1 plus basically means that we need to put the red cable to pin 1. And we need to put, say, the white cable to pin 1 minus. So red, pin 1 plus, white, pin 1 minus. Pin 2 plus, pin 2 minus, plus, minus. We leave those alone. There's no need to do anything with those. We just need to plug in pin 1, pin 1 plus and minus. Okay, CAM Vortex 15. Input, this is a speak on input, and link. So what is link? Well basically if you go from your amplifier, you will go into this guy here at 8 ohms. But if you have two of these each side, what you do then is you go from your amplifier into here, you'll go out of this guy into the next speaker. Now this unit is 8 ohms. If you go into another one of these at 8 ohms, then that will bring that down to 4 ohms.

Okay, we've got here serial number. Now it's not just a whole bunch of numbers that someone's put there because they feel like it. That is the individual number for this speaker. There's only that number for this guy here. No one else has got that number. So what you need to do is you need to write that down and put it somewhere safe. That is your personal number for this speaker. Okay, a little bit of an insight into this guy here from a company called CAM. It's known as the Vortex 15. Practice and enjoy.

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