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Eastern Acoustic Works   One Main Street   Whitinsville, MA 01588   tel 800 992 5013 / 508 234 6158   fax 508 234 8251   www.eaw.com

EAW products are continually improved.  All specifications are therefore subject to change without notice. 

Part Number:  RD0273 (1) MK5326   June 2005

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DESCRIPTION

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Permanent installation system, selectable single-amp or bi-amp

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Rotatable HF horn provides mounting options

The MK5300 Series of 2-way, high output, trapezoidal loudspeakers are
designed as main PA for smaller venues, including houses of worship,
auditoriums/theaters, A/V systems, hotel ballrooms, and meeting rooms.
The Series is also ideal for distributed or fill purposes in larger venues,
including houses of worship, auditorium/theaters, arenas, stadiums,
nightclubs, and themed-entertainment complexes.

To meet the design goals for the intended applications, EAW engineers
developed a new, high performance, 3-inch voice coil, compression
driver mating it to a selection of six different HF horns with patterns from
60° x 45° to 120° x 60°. The horns are as large as the enclosure size
allows to maintain consistent directivity throughout the HF passband. A4-
inch voice coil, 15 inch LF driver, was designed to complement the sonic
character and output of the HF driver. All MK5300 models are carefully
voiced to sound similar, permitting diverse horn patterns to be mixed
throughout an installation while maintaining the same sonic quality. The
results are  cleaner, usable, high-fidelity output to significantly higher
levels than is normally expected from loudspeakers of this size and price.

Single-amp and bi-amp operating modes are user-selectable. In single-
amp mode, the beamwidth-matching passive crossover is designed for
even power response through crossover, low power losses, and high
power handling. In bi-amp mode a digital signal processor (DSP) is
required, providing sophisticated processing to maximize performance.

Foam-backed grilles hide the drivers from view for pleasing aesthetics.
Thirteen mounting points allow enclosures to be mounted in virtually any
configuration. Additional mounting points mate with OmniMount® 120.0
Series or similar brackets. Standard colors are black and white. Other
colors can be specified as a special order items.

The MK5300 are the larger companions to the MK2300 Series
loudspeakers. Enclosures for both series are the same height facilitating
installation where more than one horn pattern and/or type of loudspeaker
capability is needed.   Six Year Warranty.

2-WAY FULL-RANGE   

120° x 60°

See NOTES TABULAR DATA for details

CONFIGURATION

Subsystem

Transducer

Loading

LF

1x  15 in cone

Vented

HF

1x   1.4 in exit, 3 in voice

Horn-loaded

coil compression driver

Operating Mode

Amplifier Channels

External Signal Processing

Single-amp

LF/ HF

High pass filter

Bi-amp

LF, HF

DSP w/2-way filters

PERFORMANCE 

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Operating Range

62 Hz to 20 kHz

Nominal Beamwidth (rotatable)

Horz

120°

Vert

60°

Axial Sensitivity (whole space SPL)

LF/HF

97 dB

62 Hz to 20 kHz

LF

97 dB

62 Hz to 1650 Hz

HF

107 dB

1200 Hz to 17 kHz

Input Impedance (ohms)

Nominal

Minimum

LF/HF

8

6.9 @ 145 Hz

LF

8

7.0 @ 165 Hz

HF  8

8.4 @ 5800 Hz

High Pass Filter

High Pass

=>50 Hz, 12 dB/octave Butterworth

Accelerated Life Test 

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LF/HF

80 V

800 W @ 8 ohm

LF

80 V

800 W @ 8 ohm

HF

35 V

150 W @ 8 ohm

Calculated Axial Output Limit (whole space SPL)

Average

Peak

LF/HF

126 dB

132 dB

LF

126 dB

132 dB

HF

129 dB

135 dB

ORDERING DATA

Description

Part Number

MK5326 2-Way Full-Range Loudspeaker Black

0013578

MK5326 2-Way Full-Range Loudspeaker White

0013762

MK5326 2-Way Full-Range Loudspeaker Black-WP 0013788

Optional Accessories

Eyebolt/Forged Shoulder (3/8-16 x 1.25 in)

104001

MK2/5000 U-Bracket Black

0007869

MK2/5000 U-Bracket White

0015076

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To achieve specified performance, the listed external signal processing with EAW-provided settings is required.

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For recommendations to select power amplifier size refer to :  “HOW MUCH AMPLIFIER POWER DO I NEED?” on the EAW web site.

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