One of my favorite things about demonstrating speakers is to create magic – I mean that literally because the best audio demos happen when the speakers completely fool you into experiencing an alternate reality. But I am not a magician by trade so I don’t really care about giving away the secrets! So here’s a good one I showed last week in Hong Kong during our big sales meeting. I played our Classic Series CS 26’s and our new CPS 10Wi “wireless ready” subwoofer for a group of twenty-five people. I played a Yellowjackets cut with lots of low end and it sounded great. Then I picked up the power cord for the sub, which wasn’t attached to anything, and the crowd went wild! Where was the bass coming from? Well, I said, it is actually the smaller CPS 8Wi model (only $399.99 US) halfway down the hotel meeting room (about thirty feet away). I marched all twenty-five people down the room so we could have a look at the CPS 8Wi, which was pounding away heartily, without complaint.
And I showed them how an audio cable was leading across the room to the CPS 8Wi, and thereby the sound was playing. But now for the double-whammy: I then yanked out that audio cable leading into the sub and THE SUB WAS STILL PLAYING. (Yes, it was plugged into AC power.) So, what’s the deal? I was streaming the bass to the CPS 8Wi from our handy accessory, the WT 50 Wireless Transmitter, which works with the Boston Acoustics CPS 8Wi, CPS 10Wi, and the CPS 12Wi subs. Out of their boxes, the subs are normal wired models, which takes care of many situations, but who needs wires when you can add the WT 50, put the sub across the room like I did, and fool all your friends with your new subwoofer magician trick. Abracadabra!
-Stephen Shenefield
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