Blue Sky Big Blue: 2.1 System

Blue Sky Big Blue: 2.1 System  (2) SAT 12 & (1) SUB 15

SAT 12

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 Universal, 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.

SUB 15

Big Blue has been designed to integrate perfectly with Blue Sky's new SUB 15 Universal, 1000-Watt subwoofer. The SUB 15 Universal is a sealed box subwoofer, designed around a 15" forward-firing driver with a massive cast aluminum frame, dual 2.5" voice coils - which has 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 Universal'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 Universal 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 Universal is also compatible with the SAT 6.5 and SAT 5).