Ravenous? – Meadowlark Audio's new fully active Raven [$10.5K/pr] is with dual 9½" subwoofers beneath a 4" 2-way head. A 5th-order DSP high pass at 18Hz protects and linearizes the critically damped sealed bass system by allowing 6dB of built-in boost driven by 250-watt nCore. A matching class D module powers the SB Acoustics midrange whilst a 100-watt module fronts the Seas ferrofluid-less soft dome. 24/192 digital inputs cover coax, AES/EBU and optical, analog is on RCA/XLR with auto signal detect. At 85lbs and available in a range of real-wood veneers, Raven is very compact: a square-foot cross section rising to just a few centimetres past a metre. That's really small for what promises to be true full bandwidth of high output with uncommon dynamic linearity.
