Who had the d12 hit points, was it the paladin?

Hmm... Elemental Designs... I hear their stuff isn't bad.
In theory, a spherical enclosure provides more gain than a rectangular one.
Cool idea, i bet it is crazy soundin. Throw that in the back of your Escalade.

That is surprisingly cheap! You can totally use this at AMC or Harkins no sweat!

Elemental Designs have some amazing products. If you are into audio equipment especialy of the mobile audio variety, you have to check out some of their experemental subwoofers. You can find videos of them on Realm of Excursion.

ive been meaning to ask why you guys dont do more on car audio?

I set up an Elemental Designs 5.1 at home with an Onkyo receiver and love the sound. They also have a great reputation for car speakers. So this is probably crazy.

This is ridiculous. Unless there's a TON of expensive DSP somewhere, all those sound sources are just going to cancel each other out at different phases.
I'm sorry I have to bash this, but low frequencies in an enclosure that is so small compared to their wavelengths become omndirectional. You regular sub irradiates sound the same way this pretends to. Cone drivers aimed at different (and opposite) directions, moving in those directions will only cancel stuff out.
This design is used for higher frequency drivers to produce omni sources for acoustical measurements.
This is idiotic, but looks cool.

Ah fudge that guy beat me to it. yeah I am skeptical of a design like this not having mondo phase cancellation problems. I have seen some very high tec subs that use additional rear facing speakers to make the cabinet MORE directional. Meyer has had a cardiod subwoofer for a while now.
But this is just silly.

@SchruteBuck: That would be the barbarian. Fighters and paladins both have d10s, as does the ranger in 2nd edition and up (in 1st they had d8s, but started with two of them).

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I can see this making its way to many a Geo Metro, owned by 17 Y/O "gangsta thugs".

That's only a decasub then. Losers.

@HeartBurnKid: Wow massive mad nerd props

@Inaki:

Actually, if you run it in dipole mode, the cancellation you'll get is desired. It'll allow for bass directly in front of each face, but after a certain distance (15+ ft), the output will significantly decrease. Essentially, you can enjoy your bass but your neighbors won't have to.

Where do you get 6000 Watts of power?

The plugs in your house (no matter how they're fused) are likely only rated for 15 Amps (20 max), per plug at 120 V -- that's a max of 2400 Watts.

Also: is it internally amplified, or do I have to provide my own set of amplifiers?

While you guys are discussing RPGs and spec flaws, I'm looking at this thing and wondering if it were hooked up to my turntables and I went through some of my Slammin' Vinyl old-skool UK hardcore records (with terrifying basslines), would it render the frame of the house structurally unsound?

Hi Eqc,
Audio output is usually measured at 2.83V...so 600 watts each is 212 Amps per channel, I'm guessing peak, not RMS which would be roughly 150 amps per channel, we're gonna need some really big freakin' speaker cables to drive all of these woofers...probably burn the house down when the amp goes all "Three Mile Island" on us. What fun, drop one in the pool and blow a continuous hole in the water on dance tunes! Count me in!

they dont cancel each other out, it set up as a dipole so the oposite subs are 90 degrees out of phase so its only loud directly in front of the sub and off about 10 degrees it gets almost to zero db's

I think I can suggest a reason why someone might want this sub: vanishingly low distortion at ordinary playback levels, and a huge amount of dynamic range (before 10% THD).

To those talking about phase cancellation: When we're working in wavelengths that don't even fit inside very large rooms (8ft-12ft long), cancellation caused by multiple acoustic sources doesn't even play a part here, since the source itself is very tiny in relationship to the wavelengths it is producing. As with any subwoofer, expect the output pattern to be spherical.

@Inaki: "Hot spots" and "cold spots" of the sound dispersion are actually part of the design of this speaker. Here is a video explanation of how it works: [www.icixsound.com]

The drivers are closer together than 1/2 wavelength. they don't cancel if they are all in phase. Wired deliberately out of phase it's a dipole. The cancellation has nothing to do with the geometry of the cabinet, it's because the rear five drivers are wired backwards. When wired all in phase, it broke the drywall in the room it was tested inside.