Gizmodo
Let's put aside this sub's ability to rumble your guts with 2100-watts of peak, or 750-watts of continuous power. What really has the Giz going is the power knob that goes one through eleven. We don't need to hear it in person, nor do we care that it won't *really* give us an extra 10 percent of juice to fly with. We still love it, and hereby declare the obvious standard: 11 is the new 10.
Where was I? Oh yes, the sub, more about the interesting speaker config, and a photo after the jump...
The sub places three aluminum drivers, each with its own amp, at 120 degrees to each other. That theoretically cancels out cabinet vibrations that color sound with noise. The drivers are 10-inches across. $2,995 for all this glory.
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Spinal tap devotees unite!! Now if I can only find $3 to spend frivilously then we'd be in business!!!
I'll stick with my Velodyne sub for now. But nice item nonetheless.
Damn, Klipsh 5.1 pro media is nice(what I have) but I've been looking for the extra umph of about 2100 watts... time to start saving
Yeah, but this one goes to Eleven.
"why don't you just make 10 louder???"
you can balance a nickel on top of these and it won't budge no matter how loud the brown note is sounding.
Grifter: Excellent taste. Velodyne subs are amazing.
I'm sure it sounds great, but my SVS cost quite a bit less, and sounds as good as I'll need.
Looks pretty darn sweet. I always turned my tunes up to 12 to piss of the 'rents back in the day though. I'd like to see it do that!
The Polk LSiW aka PSW1000 pulled that joke first:
http://akamaipix.crutchfield.com/products/2005/107/h107PSW...
but the Descent wins hands down on delivering "11"
Oh hohoho YES!
Very nice!
A major guitar amplifier company (Marshall?) made a series of amps with a gain control that went to 20 many years ago. They hired Nigel Tufnel to do print ads for them. "We're really very excited about it."
Pdizzle obviously doesnt get it.
I love Martin Logan.
I need $10k for the prodigy's *drool*.
I'm not buying it unless it comes with a cucumber wrapped in aluminium foil.
@Trance-Addict
Actually, Pdizzle gets it.
Much more interesting is Martin Logan's electrostatic speakers. Essentially a metallic grocery bag between a set of positively charged screen doors, they're 6'x2' of sound-projecting surface area.
if you want bass, car subs are the way to go! you can run them indoors with a little bit of effort:
http://www.lehigh.edu/~evb209/projects/jlsubs/jlsubs.html<...
What I wanna know is what's this bs with peak wattage listed... what the hell is peak... that's such marketing bs. I hate when companies post a supposed "peak wattage". Define your peak.
end rant, sorry.
I don't know how old that Polk is, but my two-year-old 12-inch Klipsch sub also goes to 11.
Pdizzle's comment obviously went over Trance-Addict's head.
I think the Polk LSiW came out in 2002, but they had to recall it since it went so loud that it would catch fire (I'm not making this up). It was re-released as the PSW1000 about a year and a half ago.
Yep, Trance-Addict thinks he knows... but he doesn't.
You guys are so wonky! I love it.
Send me tips, please.
ooh they could have made it in all black
@tiny hands, cass, unc2701
Just carrying on the 11 joke.
My point was this is an awesome sub.
Um.....
That's stupid.
11 has nothing on the oldschool 10.
That or you could just get a better amp...
why would they put 11? if they wanted to do it to 'appeal' they should've made it like... blue or something, instead of the same other colors....
Hi sailentshadow. We know that you're probably 14 or 15 years old, but the '11' on the volume is actually a reference to a classic film called 'Spinal Tap'. I won't explain the details to you, but it will suffice to say that it's very funny to us that a company may have actually emulated the movie like that. You may want to broaden you horizions a bit by renting it sometime.
And just FYI, people who tend to spend $3k for a home subwoofer like this generally don't think its aWExom3 for everything to be blue or have neon lights coming out of it.
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