VELODYNE DEEP BLUE SUBWOOFERS

Velodyne has released four totally new subwoofers which it’s curated in a series called “Deep Blue”, or “dB” for short. Each subwoofer in the dB Series has a differently-sized high-excursion bass driver, but all are new drivers for Velodyne and all feature four-layer, vented voice-coils in differing diameters. The smallest DB8 ($1,199) has a 203mm bass driver with a four-layer, 52mm voice-coil driven by a 300-watt amplifier.

The DB10 ($1,499) has a 254mm bass driver with a four-layer 52mm voice-coil driven by a 350-watt amplifier. The DB12 ($1,749) has a 305mm bass driver with a four-layer 65mm voice-coil driven by a 350-watt amplifier. The top-of-the-lineVelodyne DB15 ($2,099) has a 381mm bass driver with a four-layer 75mm

voice-coil driven by a 450-watt amplifier. Rather unusually these days, all amplifiers are classic linear Class-AB designs, not Class-D (switching) types. And, of course, all the cabinets are totally sealed, as per Velodyne’s longtime philosophy of completely eliminating the possibility of port noise in its subwoofers.

“The new Deep Blue subwoofer series was developed by an international team from the USA and Germany,” said James Hicks, of Oceanic Distribution, which distributes Velodyne in Australia. “To achieve their enormously deep yet powerful and undistorted bass reproduction the enclosure walls are up to 25mm thick, the baffles are 50mm thick and the new extremely powerful PP high-excursion drivers have massive dual ferrite magnet motors as well as vented four-layer voice-coils.”

All models in the Deep Blue range have both line- and speaker-level inputs, plus all have an LFE pass-through to make it easy to add a second subwoofer if required. All the crossover networks have infinitely variable level and phase controls.

For more information, contact

Oceanic Distribution on 1300 556 303 or visit www.oceanicdistribution.com