Patent ID: 8027493

Claim:
A loudspeaker having a biplane arrangement of line arrays, comprising: a housing; a woofer panel disposed in the housing and comprising a first line array of low frequency transducers, each transducer having an acoustic center, the first line array having a first axis through the acoustic centers of the low frequency transducers, wherein the first line array has a staggered configuration such that the low frequency transducers are staggered with respect to the woofer panel; and a tweeter panel disposed in the housing and in front of the woofer panel, and comprising a second line array of high frequency transducers, each transducer having an acoustic center, the second line array having a second axis that is substantially aligned in front of the first axis, and passes through the acoustic centers of the high frequency transducers, and wherein there is a substantially uniform distance between the first and second axes.