Massdrop 500 bucks off the raals

Get a kanto sub6 and duck tape it to your chest boom fixed :laughing:

Well they do sell on body subs for silent studio use, but it’s a more niche market

Are on body subs any good?

Yeah, but it’s not like an actual sub, it’s somewhat of a studio product rather than enjoyment

Here’s an example of a system like that

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From an engineering standpoint they were very interesting to look at. Besides the uniqueness of it. The driver is really just one thin metal band, so it’s not surprising that they sucked at bass. The strip itself was about 2 or 2.5 mil in width and about 3.5 inches long? They had carbon fibery look to the panels, but I don’t know if they were CF. It looked like modern steam punk.

When I pushed them I got the same type of sound you’d get when a sub would slap. I will say, that from the mids on up, it was the best thing there.

They supposed to be ā€œmonitorsā€ so there’s that.

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I woiuld say there was no subbass, and the sustain part of mid-bass and below was very estat like (meaning basically very little or none), but I would also say it was fast and there was no late reverberations to color the sound. Great for classical, not good at all for sub 30 Hz bass where its a key part of the sound.

A lot of feedback from different places on my no bass observation. The consensus seems to be that a 100 watt per channel Vidar was not enough amp to drive these and what I was hearing was more than likely the amp clipping and not a deficiency in the Raals.

I could see that for sure. I think they can do better than the vidar amp wise imo. But the bass is naturally going to be less by design compared to other options