Black Sheep Audio | BSS-WB40 | MAO Ceramic Sovereign Series Wideband Tweeter
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🏴☠️ BSS | WB40 WIDEBAND TRANSDUCER ⚡
👑 Sovereign Series Flagship Underhung System
🔊 THE BLACK SHEEP UNFAIR ADVANTAGE //
🧪 MAO Ceramic Diamond-Killer: We took a featherlight magnesium alloy substrate and blasted it with high-voltage Micro-Arc Oxidation. It bakes a diamond-hard, micro-porous ceramic skin right into the metal. You get the lightning-fast transient speed of a pure metal dome with the buttery, zero-fatigue roll-off of natural silk. No metallic sibilance. No piercing "teeth-rattling" spikes. Just pure detail 💎.
👁️ Visible Physics (The N52 Radial Engine): We don’t hide our engineering. Ten premium, segmented Neodymium (N52) magnets are locked into a high-flux radial matrix, left completely exposed through an optical-grade transparent acrylic ring. This isn't just eye candy for custom fabrication—it serves as a calculated, circular airflow guide that kills edge diffraction dead.
📏 True Underhung Topology: While mass-market brands cheat the gap, we went full acoustic purity. An ultra-tight 3.6mm magnetic gap holding a tiny 2.4mm single-layer, vertically wound CCAR flat wire voice coil. The coil never leaves the uniform magnetic field. That is how you drop Total Harmonic Distortion to a ruthless < 0.2%.
🛡️ 3-Layered Inductance Suppression Ring Defense: We choked out harmonic distortion and high-frequency impedance peaks with a triple-threat layout: a Jixin copper shorting ring, annealed copper flat washers, and a 10-layer electroplated mirror-finish gold peripheral vortex shield. Phase continuity is locked down; group delay is dead flat.
🦾 Black Nickel & Gold CNC Billet Armor: Machined from solid blocks of aerospace billet aluminum. Finished in a dark, predatory black nickel mirror-electroplating. Accented by gold-plated fasteners and CNC-machined gold terminal posts. Built to be flexed in high-end pillars and custom pods.
📊 REAL-WORLD TECH SPECS [NO BS GAUGE] //
Parameter | The Raw Truth 🛠️ |
Nominal Impedance | 4 Ω |
Sensitivity (2.83V / 1m) | 93 – 96 dB (Real efficiency, not acoustic trickery) |
Frequency Response (±2 dB) | 2.5 kHz – 40 kHz 🔥 |
Acoustic Extension (-6 dB) | ≥ 50 kHz (Certified Hi-Res Destroyer) |
THD (Target @ 96 dB / 1m) | < 0.2% (2 kHz–10 kHz) | < 0.3% (10 kHz–20 kHz) |
Inductance (Le @ 1kHz) | ≤ 0.03 mH (Near-zero motor drag) |
Continuous Power (RMS) | 30W – 60W (Conservative, real-world continuous rating. High-Pass ≥ 2.5 kHz / 12dB Oct) |
Program Peak Capacity | 120W – 160W (For when you want to get loud) |
Thermal Stability Limit | ≥ 220°C (Polyimide voice coil skeleton doesn't sweat) |
Pair Matching Tolerance | Left/Right matched tighter than a vice: Δ SPL ≤ ±0.5 dB |
🛸 ENGINEERED FOR THE BLACK SHEEP ARCHITECTS //
We don't build gear for the average listener who is fine with basic factory drop-ins. Every single BSS | MAOWB40 pair is hand-tested, curve-matched, and packed like fine military hardware. If you're ready to drag the soundstage completely out of your dash with absolute mechanical authority, stop running with the herd.
⚡ STAND APART. CHOOSE THE SOVEREIGN. ⚡
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