The Ocean Way Audio Solution for Home and Project Studios

The OWA HR5 monitors deliver aspects of performance
like no other speaker of its size at any price. One of the most
important and unique qualities of HR5 is the ability to provide a
perfect 100 degrees of horizontal dispersion. What this equates to is
simply no matter where you stand the speaker sounds the same. This gives
you the biggest sweet spot of any speaker system available today. If
you are sitting in what might be described as the perfect on axis
position in front of the speakers everyone behind you will still hear
the same balance and tonal qualities that you hear. The tremendous
horizontal dispersion of the HR5 is based on the design of the speakers
at Ocean Way Recording, which utilized this same 100 degree design in
every one of the various studios’ 18 controls rooms, and is the hallmark
of the famous Ocean Way sound.

Until the creation of this unique Ocean Way technology
this was simply not possible. This is achieved through the use of our
patented twin constant directivity HF and Low band horns and their
unique driving elements. The HR5 like all OWA monitors from the smallest
to the largest are +or- 1db of matching each other throughout their
entire extended frequency range. This provides the listener with superb
imaging and the ability to position and set the level of every
instrument and vocal in a mix with complete confidence knowing that it
will translate no matter where the mix is played.

An important characteristic of the HF and mid band
constant directivity horns which are milled out of solid blocks of wood
that are totally nonresonant is their ability to provide greater
efficiency in their respective bands as compared to conventional direct
radiators. This extra efficiency means the HF and LF bands don’t have to
work as hard even at the loudest level’s and requires half of the power
of conventional direct radiating components. This translates into very
low distortion even at high volume levels. Because of their true
constant directivity nature and their unique driving elements and
construction these horns sound completely natural without a trace of
harshness or coloration. Simply stated they have no horn sound! The high
frequency driving element utilizes a 1 inch silk dome with aluminum
voice coil with a large magnetic structure so unlike conventional horn
drivers it has no phasing plug and there for significantly lower
distortion. With 1 watt in at 1k our HF section will produce 104 dB at
one meter. The HF section is driven by a separate 90 watt amp. Another
important aspect to the HR5’s exceptional performance is the ability of
each of its HF and LF components to all produce excellent performance
well above and below their respective crossover points. This and the
fact that the HF and LF band components are in exact physical time
alignment and have horns with identical flare rates provides a virtually
perfect transition between all ranges. Even if you were to listen one
foot from an HR5 the transition between the components is inaudible. It
simply sounds like one congruent sound.

It is possible to set up set up a pair of HR5’s as
virtual head phones and still get a perfect balance. There is nothing
manufactured today of this physical size and at this price that can even
approach this level of exceptional performance. The unique wide
dispersion aspects of HR5 and all the other Ocean Audio speaker systems
are traits that are simply not available on speakers made by any other
manufacturer.