Overview
The PHA-16's high-performance, full-range drivers offer a well-defined dispersion pattern with no hot spots. It is a compact array speaker designed to work on its own or paired with flat-panel displays and video walls in industrial, commercial and residential home-theater applications. Its 25-inch length makes it ideal as a center channel above or below a video wall, as a perimeter fill for outlying zones in commercial spaces, or as a timbre-matched surround in a residential theater - it shares the driver complement and tuning of the PHA-5125.
Mounted horizontally as a soundbar, the signal drops off dramatically off-axis while maintaining a very uniform sound field in the vertical dimension. Mounted as a vertical column, it delivers a uniform sound field 360° around the speaker - ideal for public venues or hidden away at home. Options include an external HideAway™ amplifier and a PADS™ or TPA receiver.
Features & benefits
- 16 full-range patent-pending drivers
- Weather-proof for indoor and outdoor installations
- Efficient energy consumption
- External HideAway™ amplifier option
- PADS™ or TPA receiver option available
- CE compliant
- Neutral color options for easy décor blending
- Compact 2" × 2" footprint
- Timbre-matched to PHA-5125 for multi-channel designs
Applications
- Residential home theater applications
- Digital signage - pairing with flat-panel and video-wall displays
- Hotels, fitness clubs, restaurants, theme parks, museums, shopping malls, grocery stores
In the field
Five PHA-16B arrays (the black-finish PHA-16) at the Starlight Express Room, Monash Medical Centre (Melbourne, Australia) - the Starlight Children's Foundation's in-hospital space for seriously ill kids. The brief: independent audio zones above the gaming stations, so kids can play different games side by side without disturbing each other. Each ceiling-mounted array beams its station's audio straight down onto its players - five games at once, one calm room. Installer and client feedback has been very positive. (Photos courtesy of the project's dealer/installer; faces blurred for privacy.)
PHA-16W - the white-finish PHA-16 - in the ceilings of the world's largest big-box retailer, deployed in stores nationwide. High in the open rafters, white-on-white against the deck and trusses, the columns are all but impossible to spot from the sales floor - while beaming announcements and program audio down into the aisles. Mounted vertical or horizontal to suit each bay. One extrusion, every finish: black between wood slats, white in steel rafters.
PHA-16B beneath the dual menu-board screens at the Tire & Battery Center of a very large club-warehouse retailer with over 600 locations nationwide. The black bar mounts directly below the displays, beaming the signage audio to customers at the counter; the MBA-120-PS mono-block amplifier and the digital signage player are tucked out of sight behind the screens - the whole audio system disappears into the display fixture.
PHA-16 in outdoor digital signage at Las Vegas bus stops - mounted above the displays, running program audio outdoors year-round.
Watch
Make your video wall sound as good as it looks
A 53-second look at why line arrays belong on video walls: conventional speakers spray sound everywhere, while a vertical PHA-5125 column focuses it across the room — intelligible from the front row to 10 m back, with no ceiling slap. Corporate boardroom, hospitality lobby and home-theater layouts from the application white paper.