Artison RCC Nano 1 Mini-Subwoofer Promoted as The World’s Smallest High-Performance Subwoofer

December 9 2014, 04:00
Artison, the Nevada-based loudspeaker manufacturer launched its first crowd-funding campaign on Kickstarter, to raise money to build and market a small high-performance DSP subwoofer and to promote the product to the average person. The project’s funding goal was not reached, achieving only $38,729 of the pledged goal of $250,000. Still, probably the marketing goals were achieved.

Artison hoped its first Kickstarter campaign would create demand for dealers, and if successful could cause Artison to use crowd funding to launch other new and interesting products. This crowd-funding campaign featured the 300-W Nano 1, the company’s first freestanding subwoofer in years. Still, since Artison is an established company with a history of delivering high-end audio equipment, it should have no problems with the project follow-up.

The Nano 1 is being promoted as the world’s smallest high-performance subwoofer. It features dual active 6.5” long-throw aluminum drivers on opposing sides to deliver significant sound pressure level (SPL) down to 35 Hz in an extruded-aluminum cabinet, measuring only 7.5" × 8" × 9" (including feet and grille).

The Nano has a 60-to-160-Hz low-pass filter, 0°-to-180° phase control, choice of 12 dB or 18 dB per octave crossover slope, high- and low-level inputs, signalsensing input, and 12-V trigger and hardwired IR input for custom integrators. The subwoofer also comes with its own IR remote and front-panel LEDs
that indicate volume level and choice of music or movie modes.

Lessons learned, the company should now confirm if the Nano 1 will be available in 2015, as scheduled, which it will probably do soon. The announced $899 price also included an embedded frequency-hopping wireless receiver and there’s a compatible wireless transmitter available for $99.

Sometime in 2015, Artison plans to launch the Nano 2 and the Nano 3 subwoofers, which will incorporate the same dual-driver design with dual active 8” and 10” drivers, respectively, and will be only slightly larger than the Nano 1.
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Artison CEO Cary Christie poses with the company’s new Nano 1 subwoofer.
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About Vance Dickason
Vance Dickason has been working as a professional in the loudspeaker industry since 1974. A contributing editor to Speaker Builder magazine (now audioXpress) since 1986, in November 1987 he became editor of Voice Coil, the monthly Periodical for the Loudspeake... Read more

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