Axiom Audio introduces the newest member of the DSP subwoofer family, the Epicenter EP400, a new, compact high-performance sub that satisfies the challenging need for amazingly low bass in smaller rooms. The EP400 delivers bass extension as deep as 23 Hz in smaller rooms such as dens or bedrooms, using a much smaller enclosure than a conventional subwoofer.
Borrowing the same DSP technology from the larger, well-reviewed Axiom EP500 and EP600 subwoofers, the EP400 uses a powerful 500-watt internal amplifier coupled to a tough long-throw 8-inch driver and custom DSP algorithm to extract maximum sound pressure levels as high as 116 dB from an enclosure barely taller than Axiom's M3 bookshelf speaker.
The EP400 (the EP stands for Epicenter, as in earthquake) features Axiom's intelligent Digital Signal Processing (DSP) technology. DSP—an Axiom exclusive—is a custom-designed programming algorithm that dynamically marries a driver with its digital signal over the driver's entire performance spectrum. The extraordinary result is unprecedented smoothness or “linearity”, even at maximum output levels in the driver's lowest frequencies. It is virtually impossible to overdrive an EP-series subwoofer into distortion, even at its highest volume.
The EP400 was produced to fill a specific need: to pack real subwoofer performance into the smallest possible enclosure. Used in combination with any of Axiom's compact bookshelf speakers— the M2 v2, M3 v2 or M22 v2 -- or their in-wall equivalents, the W2, W3 and W22 -- the new EP-400 effectively extends sound reproduction across the entire range of audible musical frequencies to levels that approach the subsonic region, and, if desired, at realistic output levels as great as 116 dB SPL.
Trying to decide between an EP400 and an EP500? The EP400 was not created to be a less expensive version of the EP500; in fact, if you do not have any concern with the enclosure size, then choose the EP500. What the EP400 enables is that the master bedroom or den can have subwoofer response as powerful as the home theater room, in an enclosure small enough to tuck in a bookshelf or under the bed.
The EP400 creates a state-of-the-art system for movies, classical music, rock performances or other forms of entertainment that demand heart-pounding realism and fidelity.
