The Absolute Sound 2015 Golden Ear Awards - AudioKinesis Swarm Subwoofer System
September issue page 66!
AudioKinesis Swarm Subwoofer System
Getting The Bottom End Right
Equipment report
by
Robert E. Greene| May 06th, 2015
http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/audiokinesis-swarm-subwoofer-system/
The Absolute Sound Review of The Swarm Subwoofer System - April issue, (pages 86-90)
The April issue of The Absolute sound is out, and in it is Robert E. Green's review of the Swarm subwoofer system. He seems to have liked it:
"The AudioKinesis Swarm represents a new departure in subwoofer systems, and to say it works well is an understatement. It is completely stunning. To my mind, it is a revolutionary development in subwoofer design."
"It will no doubt be somewhat disconcerting to the makers of large monolithic subwoofers to report the truth here: The Swarm, in fact, worked better than one or two subwoofers, even when those were DSP-adjusted."
"The Swarm makes bass that has both power and definition. Go to an orchestral concert and you will get the idea.... The definition aspect is more than a matter of "tight bass" in the audiophile sense.... One can readily follow bass lines in orchestral music in a way that escapes most systems completely. This is how live bass sounds."
"The clarity [of the bass] combined with its natural level gets one very close to the live experience of bass in large halls."
"The Swarm, presumably because of its smoothing out of response, largely suppresses the bass signature of your listening room. And as a result one can hear the original venue in a most unusual way."
"It really does a remarkable job of taking the room out of the sound in the lower frequencies, where that is so hard to do."
"If you are interested in the reproduction of large-scale music, the Swarm will offer new dimensions - almost literally - to your audio experience."
"I think [distributed multisubs] is the future of bass in rooms. Period."
"The Swarm is such an excellent manifestation of the general idea and at such a reasonable price that one is hardly tempted to do anything except just purchase it."
"This is a system that works. Truth to tell, it seems to me to make even the most magnificent of one-point subwoofers into dinosaurs, something grandly impressive in their time, but their time is over."
Thank you, Robert!!
The Absolute Sound! 2015 Editor's Choice Awards. The Best of Audio Gear of 2015. AudioKinesis Swarm Subwoofer system included in the Subwoofer section, and several of the products we sell as well! Congrats to Sound Lab on the M-1PX in Loudspeaker section, Atma-Sphere M-60 and Parasound Halo JC1, A 23, and A21 in Power Amplifiers, also Atma-Shere MP-3 and Parasound Halo JC2 in Preamplifiers!
AudioKinesis Show Reports and Product Reviews 2015
The Absolute Sound 2015 Editors' Choice Awards - Subwoofers
AudioKinesis Swarm Subwoofer System ($2500 four subwoofers, one amplifier)
This system is based on the idea that the smoothest, most uniform bass response in a listening room is obtained by using multiple subwoofers in various (usually asymmetric) positions. The Swarm includes at a very reasonable price four subwoofer units and a 1000 watt amplifier. The subs are driven in series/parallel configuration so that the amplifier "sees" the impedance of a single speaker. This idea, says REG, is the answer to bass in rooms. The Swarm, with the subs suitably placed, produces bass down to the bottom and smoothly from there on up to where the main speakers take over, and not at just one position but over the whole room. The uniformity of response gives you a compelling impression of being immersed in the bass soundfield of the original venue in a way no single subwoofer can accomplish.
REG, review forthcoming