Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Car AudioNews

Earthquake Offer World-Splitting Highs To Go With Their Lows

We have known for some time about just how bonkers the Earthquake Sound car audio kit can be and how far they go in the Weapons-Grade direction with some of the baddest subwoofers and most powerful amplifiers available. They also do a whole range of bass kit in the ‘˜affordable yet still potent’ bracket for those who cannot afford to split fault lines with seismic levels of lows and of course a full line of coaxes and component speakers for the rest of the music.
Nowadays, though, the whole SPL (Sound Pressure Level) thing has come full cycle from the first ever contests, where they thought that SQ (Sound Quality) was the only way to go that was respectable and that bass heads were hooligans, to a place where boom is king. Just like I always knew. And in a world where the Hertz SPL Show line includes bullet tweeters and others are also offering bullets, like Ground Zero, Earthquake have gone one better.

For the Bullet tweeter is a professional audio product. Designed to cut through huge sound systems in clubs and concert halls. But that’s only in the near field or for those nearby the speakers. For those further away, you need a horn with a device on the end called a compression driver to squirt the upper mids. This is a large clamshell of magnet with a big diaphragm inside that fires all its output compressed through a narrow throat of one or two inches (some are inch and a half) which makes frequencies from quite high to deep into the midband where a ten or even twelve inch mid can take over. (Don’t forget that lead guitarists’ backline stacks have only 12inch speakers in them!) A six foot long horn like a trumpet on the front of a magnet the size of a baby’s torso will reach the back of a stadium.
And Earthquake, as we know, has got some compression drivers and as of just recently in the UK, in a delivery that has come in since the business transferred to Joe Ajji’s bro Tej, they now have the horn fittings to go with them for UK automotive use.

This means you can have a bullet and a horn in your wall that will tear the world apart in mids and highs and reach to the other side of where EVER you are parked!

The BT44S bullets are £39.99 EACH, the HD250X compression drivers are £79.99 each with a horn costing £20 a pop, which ever ones you choose. They vary according to the angle at which the sound spreads out at, expressed in degrees of arc, like say 120 degrees x 60 degrees.

Check out the latest on the Earthquake UK website here: (live very soon after publication of this news piece)
link