That Other 3 Letter Sub Company to Release Bookshelf Speaker. (1 Viewer)

[Arthur S]

You can figure out who that other 3 letter sub company is.
The company rolled it out at the HE 2006 show, along with another new product, a mid subwoofer. The new bookshelf has a 6.5 inch ported woof and a horn tweeter with projected price of $125, availability, likely by the Holidays.

Apparently they are going for a sort of 3 way system. Bookshelf crossed over at 80Hz, mid woofer to handle ~50 HZ region and their top of the line sub for the really deep stuff.

If you can picture the Velodyne DD1812, the mega-buck sub from that venerable company, it might give some idea of what *** is thinking. The 1812 has an 18 inch driver combined with a 12 inch driver in one large cabinet. This beast goes for $10K-$13K.

*** is apparently trying to offer a similar approach that would require two boxes, but cost perhaps $1,500.

Back to the new bookshelf. Unfortunately, the ever popular other company, (the one that makes the 20-39PCi that I own), did not have a display at CE 2006. It sure would have made for an interesting comparison.

Mods, as always, if you have a problem with this post, please just delete it.

Thanks

 

[ThomasC]

Are you not suppose to disclose the name of the company because the bookshelf is supposed to be kept secret until they make a press release, or are you just trying to make people guess? The only company I can think of is HSU.

 

[PaulT]

What's the big deal - it is HSU and there are photos here:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...&&#post7769261

I'm sure that thread will turn into a p*ssing contest like most of them do

Here is more info:
http://blog.ultimateavmag.com/he2006/060206Hsu/

 

[AlanZ]

Arthur must have been taken off the Hsu payroll....usually he's taking preorders by now

 

[Arthur S]

Paul

Thanks for the link to the ultimate AV mag article. Sounds like HSU is raising the bar.