Сабвуферы — Living Voice Vox Elysian

The Vox Elysian is a horn-loaded sub-bass system from Living Voice, the British company behind the Vox series of horn loudspeakers. It was designed to match the efficiency and dynamic range of the Vox Olympian, so that the Olympian system is horn loaded from top to bottom with one consistent technology across the full bandwidth. The Elysian is supplied in pairs for stereo bass, with one cabinet placed on each side of the system. Living Voice offers the smaller reflex-loaded Basso for spaces where an Elysian pair is impractical. The horn mouth faces forward into the room, which is what the term front-loaded refers to.

Key specs that matter

Every Elysian enclosure contains a pair of 12-inch bass drivers front-loaded by a folded exponential horn with a path length of 4.6 m. Living Voice lists a frequency response from 25 Hz to 70 Hz, a sensitivity of 98 dB and an impedance of 4 ohm, with power handling of 1000 watts. Dedicated 500 watt amplifier and crossover modules with adjustable equalisation come with each pair. The cabinet measures 670 mm wide, 1275 mm deep and 1361 mm high, and Living Voice gives the weight as 230 kg per cabinet.

Engineering and use context

A folded horn works as an acoustic transformer, coupling the cones to the air far more efficiently than a direct radiator, and the path is folded to fit a long horn into a cabinet that can stand in a domestic room. Twin 12-inch drivers share the load, keeping cone excursion low for a given output. The crossover and amplification sit in separate modules, leaving the horn enclosure passive. PTFE skids under a built-in plinth mean a unit of this mass can be slid into place rather than lifted, although the depth of more than 1.2 m still calls for careful planning of floor space and access routes.

Pairing

The intended partner is the Vox Olympian horn loudspeaker, where the Elysian takes over the lowest octaves below the main speakers. The low impedance load is handled by the supplied amplifier modules, and the line-level crossover means the pair is fed from the preamplifier rather than from a power amplifier output, with the adjustable equalisation used to blend the horn with the main system. Because the pair operates in stereo, each Elysian is usually connected to its own channel.

Alternatives

The Living Voice Vox Basso is the compact sub-bass choice, a 250 litre reflex design with a single 18-inch driver rated at 100 dB.