Celestion introduces TFX0515 small-format coaxial driver

Celestion has announced the new TFX0515 5-inch ferrite magnet coaxial driver. With a rigid pressed steel chassis, 1.5” diameter polyimide voice coil, the TFX0515 provides a cost-effective addition to the company’s series of coaxial units, for applications including compact, fixed-install sound reinforcement and cinema audio.

Incorporating a number of performance improvements over the older TFX0512, including bigger LF and HF voice coils, the new TFX0515 driver also features a larger ferrite motor driving the low frequency element, delivering overall greater power handling.

For HF reproduction, the device features a high sensitivity, 25mm (1") silk dome tweeter, driven by a compact neodymium magnet motor. The resulting smaller size of the HF unit enables it to be positioned inside the LF driver’s voice coil, "at the point where the acoustic centres of both sources are 'coincident', ensuring well-matched directivity and time alignment of the LF and HF signal, delivering maximum signal coherence for a more natural sounding reproduction", says the company.

“The entire coaxial range is a reflection of Celestion’s continuing commitment to providing sound reinforcement equipment designers with new options, and the new improved TFX0515 is the latest example of this,” says Celestion Marketing Product Manager Ken Weller. “For customers who like our coaxial drivers such as the FTX series, but perhaps need drivers that are more compact, more affordable, or both of the above, the TFX drivers provides the perfect solution.”