YAMAHA DZR SERIES Powered Speakers
Yamaha’s always trying to go faster or louder, no matter if it’s speakers, motorbikes or jet-skis. Sitting squarely atop its portable speaker range is the new DZR series, which aims to be the loudest, deepest and best controlled speaker in its class.
PURE POWER
Three of the four models in the DZR range are two-way designs with newly developed 10-, 12-and 15-inch woofers with three-inch voice coils, weight saving aluminium frames and neodymium magnets. High frequencies are produced by a two-inch voice coil and neodymium magnet with a titanium diaphragm into a one-inch throat compression driver and constant directivity horn, which is rotatable for flexible installations and stage monitor applications. The biggest and baddest model, the DZR315, is a three-way design with an eight-inch mid-driver as well as the 15-inch woofer and horn.
The speakers are powered by new 2kW (peak) Class D amps specifically optimised for the DZR range with integrated DSP processing (there’s also a passive CZR series available). The DZR series is the first Yamaha portable speaker range to use 96kHz converters for higher resolution audio with low latency. Precise real-time control of amps, power supplies, drivers and output levels enables very high SPL levels without anything distorting or breaking. The specs are crazy. Pink noise @ 1m on the DRZ10 can reach 137dB, for the DRZ12 and DRZ15 that rises to 139dB, while the DRZ315 can output a blistering 143dB.
QUALITY TO THE EDGE
Top of the line cabinets need to look the goods, and the DZR range achieves this without gimmicks. Wood helps, and
