Gadgetory

last year we had several what I would call minor new products it was fun it was great but this to me is like where's the beef beef is here at this event and the really big news is our 16 Ultra subwoofers which we have been working on in secrecy for more than two years I'm so thrilled that we're finally launching them here at Rocky Mountain there is so much new on these subwoofers that I really want to kind of take you through it in three parts first of all and this is something that everybody is thrilled about this is SBS's first ever 16-inch driver and we have been working on this for a really really long time trying different approaches I mean I can actually I say two years in the development but we actually started more than eight years ago trying to figure out how to do this why is it so difficult well here's the thing the existing 15 and 18 inch drivers in subwoofers today if you have a massive motor and a powerful amplifier you certainly can move some air by saying move some air I mean you can create extreme low frequencies you can play really loud but 15 and 18 inch drivers are subject to inaccuracies particularly in frequency response and transient response SBS is all about great bass deep low-frequency extension great SPL s but we never want to sacrifice accurate frequency response and and speedy transient response so that's why we've shied away from that this design is is the product of two years of exhaustive research we threw all our other designs out the window and came up with this innovation which is our that I think the world's first ever eight-inch edged wound voice coil the typical subwoofer driver has a three-inch voice coil trying to control this massive 15 or 18 inch driver it's not going to work this 8 inch voice coil exerts tremendous precise control over the driver we marry that up with a massive ferrite motor the driver weighs in the neighborhood of 75 pounds of weighs more than most entire subwoofers this driver can create extremely low frequencies it can create massive amounts of SPL but never sacrificing frequent accurate frequency response and speed in the transients the driver is phenomenal but a driver is only a potential it's not reality at the same time as we began development of this driver we imperil l began development of an all-new amplifier platform because without the right amplifier the driver is just a concept so we're also proud to launch our sledge 15 under an amplifier 1,500 watts of continuous power more than 5,000 watts of peak power I'm going to say arguably the most powerful amplifier ever put in a subwoofer and what's really cool about it is the output is fully discrete MOSFET output benefit there is gobs and gobs of current to be able to really drive that driver and control it we marry that with analog devices one of their best DSPs nobody puts sophisticated DSPs and subwoofers we did and the result is a phenomenal tour de force of subwoofer performance as I said phenomenal low-frequency extension great output and always accurate and speeding the transients and then we marry that up with something that nobody's ever done one thing you're going to see is the first-ever SBS from panel display so I'm really proud of that but obviously other folks have done that but I don't think anyone has done this this is the first-ever subwoofer app for smartphones it will work with your iPhone or your Android phone it's fully bi-directional meaning the app can talk to the subwoofer and tell the sub control every aspect of the subwoofers DSP but if you go up to the front panel and control it there it will the app will know you did it if you don't want to use the app you can also use the supplied credit card remote to control the subwoofer oh and by the way the app connects to the subwoofer via bluetooth so you don't even have to have line-of-sight to do it you have a full readout of what you're doing and the subwoofer can be hidden behind something and not visually see it and still be controlled by the app you can look on our site to get the specific specs but one expect that everybody want to know is our 3 DB roll-off rated for the SP 16 Ultra is 16 Hertz so well below audibility on the pv 16 ultra it's literally 14 Hertz so just an astonishing amount of low frequency output that's even below our ability