The Tale of the Waterproof Infra 18
Hey guys, this is about my Bag End Infrasub 18 bought maybe around 05, I meant to write you guys back in 2010, but…
Here is the tale of 2 wet events, and thousands of hours of great music listening.
I bought the sub for 2 channel music (and some occasional morbid home theatre curiousity).
The first day I got the sub and added it to my 2 meridian dsp 5000’s I played Toto Kingdom of Desire, then straight to On Every Street Dire Straits, then 4 or five hours later Some Bruce Cockburn…..HOOOOOOLLLY SHEEEEEEEEEEEET. It was the most musically satisfying home listening I had encountered!! It blended so beautifully, it was like the speakers just became painted together …amazing.
I play drums and there is nothing more satisfying than a great chest soul punching kick drum……. and now I finally had at home what I usually had in my Meyers monitor rig on stage … that danmar wood beater smacking a coated emp shaking your dinner loose !
So… May 2 2010
Our house on the Cumberland River is submerged by the flood, my wife and daughter escape the attic in zodiacs after a six hour huddle. I finally get back into the house 7 days later after the river subsides….. my sub had floated thru the house from its dedicated spot, thru the kitchen, past the dining room and finally landed in the living room area ….the screen wasn’t even torn as my family and the rest of Nashvilles wonderful volunteers helped clean up I found all kinds of excuses to never let the sub get tossed. Finally in July, I pushed the sub up against the front door to hold it in place and we moved on to our next home up in Ky. I would get down every few weeks to check on the house, the sub sat thru a whole winter and finally in July of 2011 we were going to have the house demolished… there was my infra sub still proudly holding the front door in place…this was going to be a tough day!
Something made me wonder, so I called a great buddy of mine to bring over the appropriate cords and we plugged the Infra into the contractors generator and then ran some RCA’s from a boom box and …….wow…we didn’t even clean the Cumberland mud out of the RCA plugs.
We loaded her up and I brought her 200 miles to the new home to meet my Genelec. I wired her in ……and I swear it sounded even BETTER, maybe even a little tighter, but even after all that time it was still just massive seamless low end….
…so 3 years later… Wet, Part 2
1/28/2014
The basement pipe froze, burst etc, soaking all my gear again. Including all the shit in my little ‘listening’ room… the Infra this time only sustained about 2 inches of submersion. A little B&W in the other corner, same water, DOA…
this time I carefully shopvaced lightly around the cabinet, let a servpro fan hit it for 2 days and ….you got it…IT IS ROCKIN..it looks like hell, the bottom corner has started to split, but no rattles or cab shake.
To honor its second rebirth I dug out my old Dire Straits favorite cut Heavy Fuel….. playing it thru my lap top with a couple of little krks… AMAZING….. Like our bass player says….. sounded so good I threw up right there!!!!!
I will never buy another sub from anybody at any price, thanks for making such a remarkable product…USA!
I am going to order another Infra sub immediately…..(thanks to the good hand people)… and I will never ever take anything for this one… it is one brave, bad, low end soldier
Thanks boys,
Toph
Nashville, TN
