McIntosh has created the new XCS1.5K center channel speaker to match the company’s XRT2.1K and XRT1.1K floorstanding speakers. Rated to handle 1,500 watts of power, it is a hybrid of a 3- and 4-way speaker and can be used with a variety of McIntosh home theater processors and amplifiers. The XCS1.5K consists of 43 individual speaker drivers, four of which are 8-inch long-throw carbon fiber sandwich cone woofers housed in a vented bass cabinet. Fourteen of the drivers are 2.5-inch aluminum midranges and 25 are 3⁄4-inch dome tweeters.
has launched two new access points (WAX628 and WAX638E) tailored specifically for the residential custom integration market. These access points are bundled with four years of both ProSupport services and Netgear Insight, which is a cloud-based management platform that enables installers to remotely manage their customer’s network
