MEYER SOUND MICA : FEATURES

MEYER SOUND MICA : APPLICATIONS

• Very high power-to-size ratio
• Exceptional fidelity and transient response for intelligibility and high-impact
• Seamless integration with MILO
• Wide and even horizontal coverage pattern
• QuickFly rigging system with new captive GuideALinks simplifies use in flown or groundstacked arrays

• Performing arts centers
• Theatres
• Churches, and other fixed installations
• Touring sound reinforcement for mid-sized venues
• Sidefill hangs with MILO in large venues
  

MICA offers all of the benefits of Meyer Sound’s 25 years of manufacturing controller-assisted loudspeakers and 10 years making self-powered systems, including carrying integral amplification, complex crossover, driver protection and frequency and phase correction circuitry onboard. MICA’s components are all newly designed specifically for it and manufactured at Meyer Sound’s Berkeley factory to meet stringent performance specifications and rigorous quality controls. As with all Meyer Sound systems, MICA exhibits flat frequency and phase response across its wide operating range of 60 Hz to 18 kHz.

MICA is built for touring, with its new QuickFly rigging featuring captive GuideALinks and a built-in front link vertical extension capability, as well as dimensions that provide an efficient truck pack.

With a peak output of 138 dB SPL, MICA sets a new standard for power-to-size ratio and raises the bar for performance in a compact curvilinear array system, whether it is on the road or fixed in one place.

All New Components: The Heart Of The System

The Meyer Sound MICA is a three-way system whose primary components were designed from scratch, building on everything Meyer Sound has learned to date about making loudspeaker drivers and electronics.

Low/Mid-Frequency Section

MICA covers low and mid frequencies with two high-power, neodymium magnet 10-inch cone drivers with 2-inch voice coils, each housed in its own vented enclosure within the loudspeaker. The two drivers operate in a two-way configuration: both work in parallel at lower frequencies to take advantage of their combined acoustic output, while one rolls off before the crossover frequency to maintain optimal polar and frequency response.

High-Frequency Section

MICA is designed to produce the smooth, undistorted high-frequency sound for which the MILO family is renowned. The high-frequency section located at the center between the two cone drivers consists of two neodymium-magnet compression drivers with 3-inch diaphragms and 1.2-inch exits. These drivers are seamlessly combined through a patented Meyer Sound REM (ribbon emulation manifold) coupled to a 100-degree horizontal constant-directivity horn. The horn’s controlled, very narrow vertical dispersion is ideally suited for use in curvilinear arrays, allowing minimal destructive interaction in the high frequencies between adjacent enclosures. REM produces a smoothly controlled wave front with low distortion and the very high output generated by compression drivers.

SELF POWERED ADVANTAGE:

As a Meyer Sound self-powered system, each MICA contains all of its amplification and processing within the loudspeaker cabinet, providing greater performance, lower cost and more convenience. Greater performance because all of the electronics and the drivers are designed as an integrated system from the beginning, eliminating the need for the compromises that come with accommodating unknown amplifiers or loads in passive systems, as well as ensuring that each cabinet performs identically to every other. This is critical in line array applications, where performance differences compromise coupling between cabinets, which is the basis of line array theory. Finally, cable runs are reduced to a matter of inches; signal loss from long cable runs are a thing of the past.

Lower cost comes from no longer having to buy, outfit and haul amplifier racks on tour, or build air-conditioned rooms in fixed installations. The space saved also translates into money. Also gone is the need to buy, carry and run lengths of loudspeaker cables.

Convenience comes from doing away with involved calibration of gain and crossover settings, while simplifying setup and modifications like adding more cabinets or reconfiguring zones. Load-in, load-out and flying loudspeakers is a snap.

MICA’s powerful four-channel amplifier

QUICK-FLY RIGGING:

Meyer Sound’s QuickFly rigging is the subject of multiple patents and broke new ground in providing rigid rigging that allowed arrays to travel fully rigged and virtually eliminated the need for pullback cables.

In addition to its all-new loudspeaker components and power amplifier, MICA also features a brand new design for its QuickFly rigging. The new rigging features captive GuideALinks that make rigging arrays both simpler and safer. With MICA’s QuickFly rigging, it is never necessary to put hands between cabinets while pinning links.

The front links also feature an integral vertical extension setting, allowing a wide splay angle to be introduced into an array, making it easy to minimize high-frequency reflections off of balconies and other architectural obstacles.

Optional Components

• The MG-MICA grid can fly up to 22 MICA cabinets with a 7:1 or 25 cabinets with a 5:1 load safety ratio* for large MICA arrays. It also allows for groundstacking of MICA as well as 600-HP subwoofers (with optional rigging.)

Newly designed QuickFly rigging features captive GuideALinks for easier and safer setup

• The MGCP-MICA attaches directly to the MG-MICA grid, and allows for a single hanging point without bridling, especially important in applications with low trim heights.
  
  
• The MTF-MILO/MICA transition grid facilitates using MICA as downfill for a MILO main array.
  
  
• The MDTL-MICA downtilt link adds a fixed amount of downtilt to ground-stacked MICA loudspeakers, with an additional 6 degrees of adjustment possible with the MICA’s rear GuideALinks. The downtilt link connects between the MG-MICA grid or the top 600-HP subwoofer and the lowest MICA loudspeaker.
  
  
• The MCF-MICA caster frame allows up to four MICA cabinets to be transported fully rigged, and is dimensioned to provide tight packing in both U.S. and European trucks. To make MICA entirely road-ready, durable nylon covers for up to four cabinets are also available.

Alone Or With Family, MICA Does The Job

MICA’s compact profile and high output make it extremely versatile. On its own, MICA is perfect for tours or rental systems working in mid-sized venues. Performing arts centers, theatres, churches and other locations that require a powerful system but do not have the scale of large-scale installations such as arenas and stadiums will also find MICA to be an ideal solution. Where size or weight limits are an issue, MICA presents an elegant answer.

MICA has been designed to be fully compatible with other MILO family loudspeakers and integrates seamlessly into systems built from them. Where main arrays are built from MILO, MILO 120 or MILO 60 loudspeakers, MICA is the best choice for sidefill arrays. MICA can also be used as an alternate downfill in situations where the wider vertical and horizontal coverage of MILO 120 is not needed. In fact, tours playing in a variety of venues can use MICA for sidefill in larger houses and as the main arrays in medium to smaller ones.

The vertical extension setting in the MICA QuickFly rigging makes it easy to avoid wasting energy on architectural faces where no seats exist. The RMS remote monitoring system, included as standard, makes it easy to watch critical performance parameters.

SUBWOOFER INTEGRATION:

MICA’s prodigious output calls for equally powerful support for the low frequencies. The 700-HP ultrahigh-power subwoofer supplies this support in abundance, boasting an operating frequency range of 28 Hz to 150 Hz and a maximum peak output of 139 dB SPL. The 700-HP can be groundstacked or flown in its own array with its optional QuickFly rigging. It can even be configured into a horizontal line array to provide even low-frequency coverage over a large area.

For applications where it is desirable to fly a subwoofer as part of a MICA array, the new 600-HP compact high-power subwoofer offers extremely high output in a form factor compatible with MICA. The 600-HP’s optional QuickFly rigging provides seamless integration with MICA cabinets, as well as the MG-MICA multi-purpose grid and the MCF-MICA caster frame.

MEYER SOUND MICA : GENERAL SPECS:

Horizontal: 100 degrees
Vertical: Varies, depending on array length and configuration

5.4 A rms (115 V AC); 2.7 A rms (230 V AC); 6.2 A rms (100 V AC)