Thiel Audio Products SS2 manual Product Features, Watt Amplifier, Placement Correction

Product Features

The SS2 is a very high performance, innovative subwoofer system that provides exceptionally deep, uniform, dynamic and low distortion bass reproduction. In addition, it will provide near-ideal performance with any room placement and when used with any type of main loudspeaker. These performance abilities are the result of new (patents pending) technology developed to overcome the major problems that subwoofers typically exhibit: poor integration with the main speakers and altered response due to nearby walls.

The SS2 can be used as a stand-alone unit, with a THIEL passive crossover or with the SmartSub Integrator, depending on your requirements. Here is a brief description of some of the unusual performance features this subwoofer system provides.

1000 Watt Amplifier

The SS2 is powered by a Class D, switching-mode 1000 watt RMS amplifier.

The amplifier’s very high power ensures that the woofers can provide all the output they are capable of without power compression or limiting.

Very High Output, Very Low Distortion Woofers

The SS2 uses two very high output, very low distortion 10" drivers that utilize aluminum diaphragms, heavy cast chassis and THIEL’s short coil/ long gap, copper stabilized motor systems powered by 10 lb magnets in structures with a total weight of 20 lbs.

The short coil/long gap design results in very low distortion levels that are only one-tenth that of typical drivers with the same excursion rating. This magnet system’s very long magnetic gap, along with the very high excursion suspension, allows each driver to move a very large amount of air (65 in3) – as much as many 15" woofers. By using two of these drivers the SS2 can effortlessly reproduce even demanding sources at high volume levels.

SS2 1000 watt amplifier

Since switching amplifiers are very high efficiency, about 92% in this case, very high power and currents can be delivered without large heat sinks, fans or additional power supply capacity for large amounts of waste heat. This type of amplifier is ideal for subwoofer applications since the amplifier does not have to deliver significant power at high frequencies.

Placement Correction

Placement controls (patent pending) on the SS2 match the unit’s performance to its environment, whether away from walls, in a corner or anything in-between. These controls correct for both the general increase in level and for the partial cancellation of certain frequencies caused by a nearby wall. By providing correction of these effects for both the side and rear walls, the SS2 can provide accurately balanced,

One of two SS2 driversuniform response with virtually any room

placement.

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