Overview

The H&H Electronics Tessen Active models use the same ‘audiophile’ braced plywood cabinets and purpose designed HH drivers as the passive systems, but couple them with dynamic and responsive amplifiers.

• H&H Electronics TNE 115A 15” Active Speaker - 500W Class D units drive the woofers, while 50W Class A/B amps drive the 1.4” exit compression drivers.
• Active crossovers and subtle equalisation ensure the cabs, amps and drivers are perfectly suited to each other, and outperform expectations.
• As with all HH systems, Tessen Active cabs don’t feature multiple inputs, gains and EQ’s or any of the other functions best performed by a purpose built mixer, just high quality amplification to make your sound louder without colouration.
• A great system for mobile DJ’s, and also for rehearsals this provides full range sound at high levels with minimal set up time.

Technologies:

PA WOOFERS

• Many aspects must be considered in PA woofer design: Is it for a sub or a front-of-house cab? If front-of-house, what compression driver will it be used with? What size and type of cabinet must it suit? How many drivers will be in the cab? When all this is considered, it is clear why designing and building our own speakers is a great advantage.
• FOH woofers must have enough high mid to match the compression driver used, but must reproduce enough bass to work without a sub. Subwoofer drivers must be able to shift a lot of air without suffering mechanical damage, or becoming non linear, and also should not reproduce much mid, which would need to be rolled out by expensive X-over components.

TESSEN RANGE SPEAKERS

• All Tessen systems have cast frame, designed-for-purpose woofers with highly efficient ribbon wire coils, massive magnet structures and glass-fibre reinforced felted cones with long excursion surrounds. Cones are manufactured to our specification by world renowned U-Sonics Power Cone and specially imported for Tessen cabs. The glass fibre reinforcement greatly enhances the stiffness of the cones without compromising weight, and provides the correct tonal character and smoothness to seamlessly blend with the large format 1.4” exit compression drivers used in all Tessen high/mid cabs. The 1.4” exit / 50mm Titanium dome compression drivers give a smoother, clearer upper mid character for superb vocal reproduction with great projection and very high power handling

TOTAL SYSTEM DESIGN

• Unlike many of our competitors, we design and build every part of our products. Speakers, electronics, cabinets and other parts are all designed and refined together to make a system; every part is fine tuned in development to work in harmony with the others resulting in performance far greater than the sum of the parts

FRONT OF HOUSE

• The main PA facing the audience is the vital link between your talent and your audiences perception. Your front-of-house cabs carry your message. Loud isn’t enough ; detail, clarity, responsiveness and even subtlety are essential. Your speakers should be good enough that nobody even notices they exist. By fine tuning every detail to work together our PA will put the focus on you, not your speakers. Understated looks with robust build and components sourced from the best suppliers after extensive testing combine to give outstanding acoustic performance.

ACTIVE FRONT OF HOUSE

• HH Active front-of-house cabs use our proprietary Biamp electronics. A high efficiency, lightweight switch-mode power supply drives a Class D low/mid frequency amplifier rated conservatively at 500W (RMS @ 4 ohms), and a 50W Class A/B high frequency amp to give high sound pressure levels with dynamics, headroom and clarity. The inbuilt active X-over includes EQ and phase correction to perfectly match the drivers. The input panel includes features a balanced line input and link output, level control, preshape switch, and indicator LED’s for clipping and protect. Mixing and EQ are left to your mixer and outboard, where they should be. Our active cabs just make your sound louder.

CABINET DESIGN

• Good Engineers realise that you can’t create a perfect design on a computer. After optimising the theoretical cabinet acoustics we build and extensively test samples. During testing braces, handles, pole mount fittings, ports and drivers may all be moved or altered. Sometimes just a few millimetres make a big difference to overall performance. Bracing the cabinet in the right place costs no more than a brace in the wrong place, but greatly improves clarity. A few days of extra testing and cabinet building is justified by the result.