Voice-Acoustic | Paveosub-218 | subwoofer 2x 18-inch | passive

Voice-Acoustic Paveosub-218: 2x 18-inch passive subwoofer

The Paveosub-218 is a highly vented bass-reflex subwoofer for the highest demands in mobile use and fixed installations.

Equipped with two premium 18-inch neodymium chassis, it is capable of generating deep yet dynamic high sound pressure. A low moving mass together with a powerful neodymium drive ensures fast and accurate signal reproduction with excellent fade-in and fade-out behaviour and is sonically superior to many other 18-inch designs. The chassis features a large and highly resilient voice coil, an advanced ventilation system and low-power compression.

The generous bass reflex channels ensure the best possible efficiency and prevent disturbing flow noise to the limit. Lots of bracing and struts suppress enclosure resonances, increase rear damping and make the Paveosub-218 extremely robust and an ideal tour subwoofer.

Design

The 8 optimised handles with water drainage, which can be surrounded on all sides, ensure easy, back-friendly handling during transport and stacking. The Paveosub can be used both horizontally and vertically. To this end, it has legs on two sides with opposing stacking troughs and two M20 spacer bar flanges.

At the edge, the system is 60 cm wide for the Ikarray-12 line array, making it an elegant unit both optically and mechanically. The stacking troughs match the feet of the Ikarray-12 rigging frame and the Ikarray-12 ground stacking board.

Connections

In addition to the rear connection panel, two Speakon connections are available in the solid speaker grille. These are used for front-end wiring when the bass is located under stage platforms or for connecting inverted basses in cardioid bass arrays. The connection sockets in the grille and the loop-through socket at the rear are protected from moisture with rubber caps.

Transport

There are two options for easy transport:

• with 100 mm rear swivel castors (integrated mounting points for the optional wheel set)
• by means of the stackable single front roll board, secured with butterfly locks

Amplifiers

The Paveosub-218 is operated on a single channel (2,400 W / 4 Ω) of the HDSP-6 or HDSP-4 amplifier. A woofer is designed in 8 , resulting in a connection impedance of 4 Ω.

The HDSP amplifiers include preset settings for combination with Voice-Acoustic tops. Presets for cardioid and endfire bass arrays are also available. Up to two Paveosub-218 can be connected to an HDSP-6 or HDSP-4.

Specifications

• 2x 18-inch neodymium stroke subwoofer with 4-inch voice coil
• Lower limit frequency: 32Hz (-10 dB) / 36Hz (-3 dB)
• Impedance: 4Ω, actively separated
• Load capacity: 2400W (AES), 4800W (program), 9600W (peak)
• Average efficiency 1W/1m: 102.5dB SPL (half-room)
• Sound pressure level: 136dB SPL (AES), 139dB SPL (program), 142dB SPL (peak)
• Connection: 4 x NEUTRIK NL4 IN / OUT 2 +/-
• Polyurea coating in RAL9005
• Dimensions (mm) H x W x D: 600 x 1160 x 770
• Weight: 80.5kg

The Paveosub-218 also comes in the self-powered version with 4kW power amplifier module and DSP board (optional with Dante): the Paveosub-218sp or Paveosub-218sp DDA.