Wilson Audio LōKē Subwoofer Wilson Audio's product naming strategy has always raised eyebrows, but the new LōKē reinforces its love for puns. This £9500 powered subwoofer's moniker either shows that it's the baby sister to Wilson's gigantic Thor's Hammer, or it's a play on 'Low Key'. Or maybe not. Whatever the rationale, its pronunciation is helped by diacritical marks to ensure we do not rhyme its name with 'woke'…Get more news about https://www.aoveise.com fashion subwoofer speaker,you can vist our website! Weighing 50kg and occupying a space of 530x352x552mm (hwd) with grille, the unit is just large enough to require forethought about its location, but comes with castors to make the testing of trial positions an easy task. Once you find the sweet spot, you replace the castors with Wilson's proprietary 'Spike & Diode' feet, for rock-solid contact with the floor – toolkit supplied. Sibling Style For what is effectively a box, this sub is quite handsome, especially if finished in one of the WilsonGloss colours and a contrasting grille. Also relieving it of anonymity is a slight sculpting to the sides, and you can rightly assume its looks complement the Wilson siblings with which it will be used. Its front-ported enclosure, with baffle and walls of X-material, houses a 10in woofer with rubber surround and paper-pulp cone – a new driver in the Wilson Audio lineup. Says Blake Schmutz, director of the SAE division, 'The LōKē driver is a modified version of a standard part from a USA supplier. The development process with this supplier was quite involved and took several iterations'. Powering it is a 500W Class D amplifier, also part of an outside-sourced module which also contains all of the controls and connections. My initial reaction to finding it was an OEM module was nostalgic: it was 35 years ago when the late Dave Wilson told me he would never build an amplifier because his company makes loudspeakers. Hence, Dave turned to established amp manufacturers for his powered subs. For the LōKē, Wilson Audio employs a Dayton Audio unit which Schmutz says 'was already a very well-designed and robust model with a proven track record of reliability'. Changes to certain components and the DSP functions were made to meet Wilson's requirements for a small, high-performance, rugged subwoofer with reliable amplification that was not cost prohibitive. (That, of course, is relative, as £9500 is hardly chicken-feed.) Connection is straightforward, via XLRs or RCAs that can be selected as either line- or high-level, the latter allowing the sub to be connected in parallel with the cables running to one or two of your loudspeakers. There are filtered line-level outputs too, also on XLRs and RCAs. However, the one-line LCD display and click/turn navigation rotary remains a clunky, time-consuming method of accessing the LōKē's plethora of nested functions. Suffice to say I would rather be faced with a row of knobs and switches, in the fashion of the 'old-school' subs of years past.