How much bass does $10,000 buy?
CEDIA is well known for its wildly wild-looking and expensive speakers. But you figure that for a five or six figure price tag, you’d get plenty of bass from a pair of skyscraper-sized floor speakers.
You’d figure wrong. Revel’s 225-pound ottoman-sized (around 28 inches square) Ultima Rhythm2 subwoofer is capable of outputting 5600 watts of boom boom at peak, for which you will pay 10 g’s. And I’ll be honest – based on the price tag of some speakers I’ve run across on the show floor, this might not even be the most expensive subwoofer available.
Since this is the second gen Rhythm, you have to believe that there’s a market for this kind of bottom. I just don’t know anyone in that market. If you are in the market for a $10,000 subwoofer, you’ll have to wait until January to buy it and, after you buy it, can you buy me a new 65-inch plasma?