Katherine_K
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Emotiva has a new $1,799 sub, the Nostala FT12, and two details make it worth a thread rather than a shrug. First, the room correction lives in the subwoofer itself - 56-bit DSP, a calibrated mic in the box, and you run it from a Cal/Preset button on the back panel. No app, no computer, no account. Second, look at the input list: balanced XLR mono, RCA mono, stereo RCA line level and speaker level left and right. That is not an AV receiver product. That is aimed at two-channel systems where nothing else in the chain is doing any correction at all, and that group has been badly served for years.
The driver is a 12-inch high-excursion unit with a non-pressed paper cone, a 65.5mm four-layer voice coil and a 156 x 40mm magnet with a shorting ring, in a ported cabinet with two flared ports on the front baffle. Front porting does make placement near a wall less fraught, though at 68 pounds you still want to decide where it lives before you carry it in.
Rated response is 25Hz to 150Hz plus or minus 3dB, with a claimed peak in-room figure of 117.5dB at 40Hz. Read that carefully. 25Hz is a musical bass extension, not an infrasound spec - if your interest is the sub-20Hz stuff in modern film mixes, this is not the box for that, and Emotiva is not pretending otherwise. Amplification is 800 watts RMS Class D with no peak number quoted, which I count as a point in their favour.
At this price it lands against a shelf of identical black cubes. Is a walnut cabinet worth anything to you, or is that money better spent on more driver?
The driver is a 12-inch high-excursion unit with a non-pressed paper cone, a 65.5mm four-layer voice coil and a 156 x 40mm magnet with a shorting ring, in a ported cabinet with two flared ports on the front baffle. Front porting does make placement near a wall less fraught, though at 68 pounds you still want to decide where it lives before you carry it in.
Rated response is 25Hz to 150Hz plus or minus 3dB, with a claimed peak in-room figure of 117.5dB at 40Hz. Read that carefully. 25Hz is a musical bass extension, not an infrasound spec - if your interest is the sub-20Hz stuff in modern film mixes, this is not the box for that, and Emotiva is not pretending otherwise. Amplification is 800 watts RMS Class D with no peak number quoted, which I count as a point in their favour.
At this price it lands against a shelf of identical black cubes. Is a walnut cabinet worth anything to you, or is that money better spent on more driver?
