- Ascendo Immersive Audio launches new 64-inch and 100-inch subs
- “The most important subwoofers on this planet for house cinema”
- Anticipate a six-figure price ticket
If, like me, you suppose your hi-fi or house theater system’s subwoofer is fairly sizzling stuff, put together to really feel very small certainly. The brand new subwoofer from German audio agency Ascendo Immersive Audio might be 10 occasions greater than yours, and 12 occasions greater than mine.
My concept of a giant subwoofer is 15 inches, like the most important KEF Kube: my very own Cambridge Audio sub is a wonderfully respectable eight inches, and that delivers greater than sufficient increase to fill my room. However Ascendo’s new sub is so massive that it will fill any room earlier than you flip it on. It is a whopping 100 inches in diameter, making it over 7,800 sq. inches of floor space.
Who’s going to purchase a 100-inch sub?
The brand new 100 Sub is designed for a really specific type of buyer: the sort who regarded on the prior mannequin, the 80 Sub (sure. that was 80 inches), and thought “oh, that is far too small and quiet”. The driving force alone weighs over 570lbs (260kg).
The 100 Sub strikes as a lot air as 40 regular 18-inch subwoofers, the agency says, and there is a barely smaller 64-inch mannequin too. “These two new subwoofers are the most important on this planet for house cinema, and are extremely highly effective, environment friendly and quick,” Ascendo’s Geoffrey Heinzel says.
Regardless of the ridiculous energy, these aren’t designed to be complete brutes. There is a shallower curve than the earlier 80-inch mannequin for improved efficiency, optimized quad suspension for higher motion, and “superior” supplies for noise-free operation. The cupboards have been redesigned too, with a reported enhance to the low-end frequency response and improved damping to cut back resonance.
The worth is firmly within the “if you need to ask, you possibly can’t afford it” territory and hasn’t been formally introduced, however the 80 Sub was properly into six figures.
