Blue Sky introduces 'Big Blue': SAT 12 & SUB 15

[The Press Desk at Gearslutz.com]

Blue Sky International's Big Blue / SAT 12 is a three way, tri-amplified,
500-Watt, mid-field monitor featuring a 12" high excursion hemispherical
woofer, an ultra low distortion 4" hemispherical midrange driver, and a 1"
dual concentric diaphragm tweeter with integral wave guide, for superior
off-axis response. To reduce destructive cabinet diffraction reflections,
Blue Sky has developed and incorporated into the baffle, the proprietary
"Multi-Aperture Acoustic Diffraction Absorber", which helps to maintain
smooth on and off axis frequency response throughout the critical MF and HF
frequency range, without the need for a large wave guide or horn.

Big Blue is powered by a dedicated low distortion 200-Watt amplifier for the
12" woofer, a low distortion 200-Watt amplifier for the midrange, and a low
distortion 100-Watt amplifier for the tweeter. Big Blue effortlessly
delivers clean and accurate sound with a frequency response of 45Hz to 30kHz
+/-3.0dB (200Hz to 15kHz +/-1.5dB). For full compatibility with Blue Sky's
new SUB 15, SUB 12 and BMC (Bass Management Controller), an 80Hz high-pass
network, with phase correction filter is also included. For the ultimate in
monitoring flexibility, the rear panel of Big Blue incorporates two
completely independent balanced input stages with XLR connectors. The main
input is for standard 80Hz bass-managed operation and the second input is
for traditional monitoring, without the use of a sub. The rear panel also
has controls for "full space" (placement in a room) or "half space" (mounted
in a baffle wall) operation, along with individual HF, MF and LF level
trims, as well as controls for fixed or variable gain settings. Big Blue is
designed to operate both vertically or horizontally, thanks to the rotatable
MF/HF plate.

Big Blue has been designed to integrate perfectly with Blue Sky's new SUB
15, 1000-Watt subwoofer. The SUB 15 is a sealed box subwoofer, designed
around a 15" forward-firing driver with a massive cast aluminum frame, dual
2.5" voice coils - which have almost 2.36" of excursion (peak to peak) and
features an enormous 20+ Lbs. motor structure (total driver weight 36 Lbs.).
One of the SUB 15's unique features is a switchable low frequency response
characteristic, of either 30Hz to 200Hz +/-3dB or, in "extended LF mode",
20Hz to 200Hz +/-3dB (anechoic). The extended mode is ideal for large rooms
that don't exhibit the room gain phenomenon of smaller sealed spaces. In
addition, the SUB 15 also has built-in 2.1 bass management electronics with
both a 4th order 80Hz Linkwitz-Riley low-pass filter and a 2nd order 80Hz
high-pass filter that is compatible with Big Blue's bass-managed input (the
SUB 15 is also compatible with the SAT 6.5 and SAT 5).

For more information about Big Blue, please visit www.abluesky.com/bigblue
or our web forum at www.abluesky.com/webforum .

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