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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