Review: Elemental Designs A5-350 Subwoofer
26.01.10
With up on theater subwoofers it is said that any circumstance design can maintain a small footprint, be acoustically proficient, and inexpensive … but you can usually only pick two. Subwoofer design is of course much more complex than this, with tradeoffs between enclosure types, driver designs, amplification requirements, and comprehensive design goals all being thrown into the moralistic blender hundreds of times before a ultimate product is derived. But final products large do end up following that two-of-three rule. When Elemental Intrigue was drafting the A5-350 , they clearly picked the latter two priorities.
Evaluate rarely seems to be a major design thoughtfulness for the folks at Elemental Designs. Healthy in the middle of the ED line, compared to buddy-and-mortar subwoofers in the price-span, the $800 A5-350 is a hulk (and $700 apiece if you secure two). Its 24” x 24” x 19” dimensions are punctuated by its 105-lambaste weight. While many Internet-direct rabble-rouser manufacturers shy away from heavy items like this, ED has embraced the ID performance method and uses it to its advantage. I can’t even devise trying to get one of these monsters home by myself from a municipal dealer, but FedEx did most of the heavy lifting for me. I say most because I still had to get a join of these up to my third-floor theater, but a good sugar-daddy and a couple of beers later we were in work.
Source: Electronic House