The digital drive plus 12 has a huge 1250 watts rms, 3000 watts dynamic power amplifier, and a high gloss ebony veneer finish. Full range vs bookshelf speakers will have very different lowend capability which will dramatically change was crossovercut off you use to blend the sub to the speakers. A major plus of the dd series is that you have instant visual display of your rooms bass response via the onboard sweep generator, which repeatedly cycles a 20 to. Oneoff velodyne tradein campaign until may 31, 2020. Digital driveplus subwoofer bootcode and the velodyne digital driveplus subwoofer firmware. Deftly reproducing everything from delicate symphonies to thundering battle scenes at less than 12 % distortion, this sub is as powerful and tight as it is beautiful. It includes autoeq, a fully automatic room eq mode. The dd15 includes velodynes revolutionary digital drive room management software that works with the included microphone to. The hefty price tag is about the only downside to this fabulous product, and the end user must decide if its worth forking over the. Velodyne dd12 overview and full product specs on cnet. Velodyne acoustics manuals, schematics and brochures. Just when you think a product cant get any better, it gets better. It has a 1,250 watt rms power amplifier 3,000 watts peak and a frequency response of 14. Velodyne s digital driveplus is the ultimate subwoofer in the world today.
Velodynes dd10 shows some serious thinking about the problems of subwoofers, particularly for accurate musical reproduction in real rooms. Bass test on my velodyne subwoofer spl ultra 10 inch drive optimum10 high performance series duration. Download free pdf for velodyne dd18 subwoofer manual. Velodyne recommends this practice as a way to back up your work and to be able to retrieve subwoofer settings without having the. The velodyne hdl is a networkbased 3d lidar system that produces 360 degree point clouds containing over 700,000 points every second. Because the hdl devices are network based, however, there are a few gotchas on some platforms. Even though velodyne offers several preselected scenarios for the subwoofer, which are easily available through the remote control, the dd15 deserves proper setup and calibration.
For dd15 and dd18 units, a microphone jack is also located. Make input destructors virtual commit 5e4a52e author. The magnet, at 40 pounds, weighs as much as some small subwoofers themselves. And there was the velodyne dd15, which i thought at the time was. Please click on the pdf file to the right for further information. The industry benchmark in lowdistortion bass for medium to large rooms or any home theater, with less than. Velodyne dd10 digital drive plus 10 inch subwoofer. Inside you find a microphone, a mike stand, and a set of conveniently long cables. The industry benchmark in lowdistortion bass for very large listening rooms or home theaters, with less than. Velodyne has achieved digital perfection with the digital drive series subwoofers. My room size is 22 length by 14 with 9 ceiling height. These speakers were positioned 5 from the rear wall, 8 apart, 3 from the side walls, and toedin slightly. The 15 forward firing kevlarreinforced resin driver has a 12.
These satellite speakers are now over 10 years old and still perform perfectly with a stateoftheart subwoofer. I recently replaced my 14 year old velodyne fsr12 with the dd15. The enduser must decide if they are willing to shell out almost 5000 clams to don the velodyne name in their theater room. Download free pdf for velodyne dd15 subwoofer manual. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Reference standard in digital servo bass reproduction.
Click save to file to save the preset changes to a file on your computer. At the top of velodynes subwoofer world is the digital drive 1812 signature edition. The series consists of 4 digital subwoofers the dd10 10 driver, 8 piston. Bottom lineim not going to call the dd15 plus the best sub ever, as i did with the original dd15, but the fact that i considered doing so should tell you a lot. I have a velodyne dd15 subwoofer that has started making. The hefty price tag is about the only downside to this fabulous product, and the end user must decide if its worth forking over the cash to don the velodyne name in their theater room. Digital drive users manual 1 congratulations on your purchase of a velodyne digital drive subwoofer system. The digital drive plus 18 has a huge 1250 watts rms, 3000 watts dynamic power amplifier, and a high gloss ebony veneer finish. The hdl grabber provided in pcl mimics other grabbers, making it almost plugandplay. You can save up to 1,590 for the multiawardwinning highend subwoofer model velodyne dd 10 plus now and only for a short time. The sound is a sort of howl that drops in frequency then sounds like white noise for about 1015 seconds and then it stops for the rest of the time the sub is on.
Velodyne dd15 plus or rel gibralter g1 or focal jmlab. This introduction is your road map to which parts of this manual apply to your audio system and needs. Velodynes digital driveplus is the ultimate subwoofer in the world today. My listening chair faced this short wall of my lightly damped, rectangular, 4056cubicfoot listening room. Setup i unpacked and shoved the dd18 across the living room to a spot along the rear wall, between the quads.
Velodyne digital drive dd18 powered subwoofer page 2. How to set up velodyne dd15 audiogon discussion forum. I have a velodyne dd15 subwoofer that has started making a weird sound about 1 minute after turning it on. However, the front of the dd15 plus stuck out almost a foot further into the room than a typical sub does. I was able to put the dd15 plus into my usual subwoofer sweet spot, the place where a single sub sounds best from my listening chair. However, if you want to use manualeq optimization you need to use one of the user interfaces. Its common to read ads for new audio hardware that crow about revolutionary breakthroughs in sound performance, and thats how velodyne crowed about their new digital drive dd18, servocontrolled, powered 18 subwoofer. I doubt youre going to find a subwoofer that delivers substantially more output or better sound quality that this one. The biggest collection of velodyne acoustics manuals and schematics. Velodyne s dd 10 shows some serious thinking about the problems of subwoofers, particularly for accurate musical reproduction in real rooms. I did so because the fsr12 was struggling in our new house with larger great room, and because the dd15 was on sale due to its being replaced soon by the dd15 plus at considerably higher price. Contribute to ritzalamvelodyne lidarparser development by creating an account on github. I havent seen anything else that delivers a tuningeq capability that can match that of the dd15 plus. Velodyne dd18 overview and full product specs on cnet.