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Bass with the authority to move air, and you.

 

WHY CHOOSE IT

 

Fast bass that fits your room

 

A sealed cabinet and a custom 12-inch long-throw driver keep bass tight, and built-in room EQ tunes it to your space. Flat below 20 Hz in-room, and stackable for more output.

 

WHERE IT FITS

 

No system is complete without subwoofers. Below 200 Hz, the room—not the speaker—controls what you hear, creating peaks, nulls, and uneven bass. Even the best full-range speakers are placed where bass works worst.

 

Properly designed subwoofers are essential. They smooth room response, restore the missing foundation, and allow the entire system to lock into place. When bass is right, timing, scale, and realism return.

 

The Foundry series was engineered as music-first subwoofers that integrate seamlessly and disappear into the system—whether used singly, in multiples, stacked, wired, or wireless.

 

A great system doesn’t just play bass. It needs it.

 

How it's built

 

Most subwoofers call attention to themselves. Truly musical ones disappear.

 

Most subwoofers call attention to themselves. Truly musical ones disappear. When bass is right, you hear only weight, scale, and realism—not the subwoofer.

The Foundry F12 belongs to that rare class. Its custom driver, sealed enclosure, powerful amplification, and advanced DSP work together to deliver deep bass with speed, control, and exceptionally low distortion. Notes start and stop exactly when they should.

 

Designed to solve the room, the F12 integrates effortlessly into any system and any placement strategy. What you get is not more bass—but better music.

 

1,000 W - amplifier

12-inch - ultra-long-throw driver

<20 Hz - flat in-room response

 

Overview

 

Bass is the most misunderstood element in any audio system. Below 200 Hz, the room—not the speaker—controls what you hear, creating peaks, nulls, and uneven bass no speaker can fix alone.

 

Bass is the most misunderstood element in any audio system. Below 200 Hz, the room—not the speaker—controls what you hear, creating peaks, nulls, and uneven bass no speaker can fix alone.

 

After decades of experience, we know accurate bass requires a dedicated solution designed to work with real rooms. The Foundry F12 is that solution—delivering fast, controlled, musical low frequencies with the power to disappear into the system while restoring scale and realism.

 

Why accept compromised bass? Build the foundation your system deserves.

 

The Driver

 

The heart and soul of any subwoofer is its driver—the transducer responsible for moving air with absolute precision while remaining faithful to the music. For the Foundry F12, it became immediately clear that no off-the-shelf driver could deliver the combination of ultra-low distortion, extreme output, and musical accuracy we demanded.

 

The heart and soul of any subwoofer is its driver—the transducer responsible for moving air with absolute precision while remaining faithful to the music. For the Foundry F12, it became immediately clear that no off-the-shelf driver could deliver the combination of ultra-low distortion, extreme output, and musical accuracy we demanded. So we designed our own from the ground up.

 

At the core of the F12 is a state-of-the-art 12-inch long-throw driver engineered specifically for sealed-box operation and real-room performance. With massive linear excursion capability, the F12 driver moves extraordinary volumes of air while maintaining strict control and linearity across its entire operating range. This is critical: bass is not just about power, but about precision—starting and stopping exactly when the music commands, without overhang, compression, or coloration.

 

Low distortion was the primary design goal. Using advanced finite element analysis, the motor structure was optimized to maintain a constant magnetic field throughout the driver’s full stroke. Dual shorting rings, an undercut pole piece, and a carefully engineered voice-coil geometry work together to minimize inductance variation and flux modulation—the root causes of distortion in conventional subwoofer drivers. The result is clean, articulate bass that retains texture and pitch even at high output levels.

 

The cone itself is a custom composite design chosen for its ideal balance of stiffness, internal damping, and low mass, allowing the driver to remain pistonic under extreme demands. A large-diameter Nomex spider and carefully tuned suspension geometry ensure linear mechanical behavior across the driver’s full excursion, preserving musicality even when the F12 is called upon to deliver deep, room-energizing bass.

 

The result is a driver that does more than produce low frequencies—it conveys the emotion, rhythm, and nuance of the music. Tight and articulate when the recording demands subtlety, powerful and visceral when impact is required, the Foundry F12 driver is engineered to disappear, leaving only the foundation of the performance behind.

 

The Room

 

Even the finest full-range loudspeakers cannot escape the realities of the listening room. Below roughly 200 Hz, bass behavior is dominated not by the speaker, but by the room itself.

 

FEATURES

 

At a glance

  • Music-first, reference-grade bass
  • Custom 12-inch ultra-long-throw driver
  • Sealed enclosure for fast, accurate transients
  • 1000-watt high-current amplification
  • Extreme linear excursion for low distortion
  • Flat in-room response below 20 hz
  • Advanced dsp with room eq and delay control
  • Multiple input options for any system
  • Wired or wireless integration via wisa
  • Compact footprint for acoustically correct placement
  • Designed for multi-sub configurations
  • Stackable for increased output and headroom

PS Audio Foundry F12 Subwoofer

R 65 000,00Price
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Color Options Satin White, Satin Black
Enclosure Type Sealed Box
Maximum Output 113 dB @ 2m ground plane
Input Impedance 50kΩ (RCA), 100kΩ (XLR)
Power Requirements 120/230 VAC, 50/60 Hz (auto-sensing)
Idle Consumption 40W
Driver Excursion 60mm Xmax p-p / 80mm Xmech p-p
Amplifier Power 1000W continuous (1800W power supply)
Frequency Response -6 dB @ 20 Hz anechoic (ground plane), flat to below 20 Hz in-room with room gain; ±0.5 dB to 500 Hz
Dimensions (HxWxD) 14.75"W × 16.75"H × 17.5"D (18.125" with grille)
Net Weight 77 lbs (35 kg)
Shipped Dimensions (HxWxD) 17"W x 20"H x 22"D
Shipped Weight 83 lbs (37.7 kg)
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