Over the past two days I've become acquainted with the deepest and most powerful subwoofer system I've ever encountered. It's also the coolest-looking big sub I've seen. And it's actually a prosound sub, making its debut in the home audio world at the 2025 Southwest Audio Fest in Dallas this weekend (March 21-23).
The room we're showing in is a ballroom of 28,000 to 32,000 cubic feet, estimated (we don't know how tall the ceiling is). The speakers shown in this room last year were some very nice but smallish floorstanders which were unable to pressurize the room. The room's "owner", Infigo Audio, did not want that to happen again this year. Bill Bescript of prosound subwoofer company Sonofinity came to the room last year and we talked with him about providing the subs next time, and the Dark Teal objects to the outside of the main speaker are what he showed up with:
When stacked (the bottom unit inverted, the top one oriented as in the photo) the two units constitute a single "PAQ 30" sub. It transports in two halves, each of which weighs about 320 pounds, and as you can see the two halves can be used separately. The PAQ 30 is driven by a 12,000 watt amplifier on a 240 volt line. It easily and effortlessly and thoroughly pressurizes that huge room. If the program material calls for it, the impact has incredible "slam" and makes whole room shudders. In fact Bill had to roll off the bottom end higher than normal because on recordings with infrasonic information we heard rather disturbing rattling coming from the ceiling.
My understanding is that the subs (using the plural because we are using the PAQ 30's halves as if they were two separate subs) not only have dance-club-class output (that's literally their original purpose), BUT their low-end extension goes about an octave DEEPER than their competition in the prosound world. DSP is used to shape the response of the subs as the situation requires. And Sonofinity has never had a sub fail in the field.
My understanding is that Bill intends to enter the very-high-end home audio subwoofer market. I have thought about doing so myself but his subwoofer technology vastly surpasses anything I could do even with considerably larger enclosures.. I'll stick to my little dinky subs.
I have no commercial interest in Sonofinity, but Bill Bescript IS the engineer who produced the 3D-printed Carbon Fiber horns used in the main speakers you see in the photo. That horn production project is actually how he and I first met.
The room we're showing in is a ballroom of 28,000 to 32,000 cubic feet, estimated (we don't know how tall the ceiling is). The speakers shown in this room last year were some very nice but smallish floorstanders which were unable to pressurize the room. The room's "owner", Infigo Audio, did not want that to happen again this year. Bill Bescript of prosound subwoofer company Sonofinity came to the room last year and we talked with him about providing the subs next time, and the Dark Teal objects to the outside of the main speaker are what he showed up with:
When stacked (the bottom unit inverted, the top one oriented as in the photo) the two units constitute a single "PAQ 30" sub. It transports in two halves, each of which weighs about 320 pounds, and as you can see the two halves can be used separately. The PAQ 30 is driven by a 12,000 watt amplifier on a 240 volt line. It easily and effortlessly and thoroughly pressurizes that huge room. If the program material calls for it, the impact has incredible "slam" and makes whole room shudders. In fact Bill had to roll off the bottom end higher than normal because on recordings with infrasonic information we heard rather disturbing rattling coming from the ceiling.
My understanding is that the subs (using the plural because we are using the PAQ 30's halves as if they were two separate subs) not only have dance-club-class output (that's literally their original purpose), BUT their low-end extension goes about an octave DEEPER than their competition in the prosound world. DSP is used to shape the response of the subs as the situation requires. And Sonofinity has never had a sub fail in the field.
My understanding is that Bill intends to enter the very-high-end home audio subwoofer market. I have thought about doing so myself but his subwoofer technology vastly surpasses anything I could do even with considerably larger enclosures.. I'll stick to my little dinky subs.
I have no commercial interest in Sonofinity, but Bill Bescript IS the engineer who produced the 3D-printed Carbon Fiber horns used in the main speakers you see in the photo. That horn production project is actually how he and I first met.
