Two new loudspeakers are joining the Pioneer Professional Audio XY Series: the XY-1 and XY-2E. Developed to allow more versatile use of the company's flagship XY-3B, the XY-1 and XY-2E represent the LF and MHF sections respectively and each unit is available in black. Using these individual enclosures enables installers, rental houses and touring companies to easily build ground stacked point-source arrays and deploy systems in venues with low ceilings via a variety of configurations.
The XY-1 consists of two 12-inch custom drivers in a hybrid dual-chamber configuration – exactly the same as the XY-3B, maintaining the chest-pumping low end of the flagship model.
Unlkike the enclosure-less XY-2, the XY-2E provides individual control of the 8-inch cone driver and 1-inch compression driver, which wasn’t previously possible.
These adaptable new additions to the XY Series can also be used as stage fills, for live PA and DJ booth monitoring, thanks to available optional hardware (see footer image).
The XY-1 and XY-2E are available now.
To coincide with the release of the XY-1 and XY-2E, Pioneer Pro Audio also launched a new website, available with a choice of English or Japanese text initially, with more languages to reportedly follow soon.