The Hydrive series is new line up of bass speaker enclosures featuring Hartke’s Hydrive hybrid cone bass transducers. The HX115 provides 500 watts of power handling from the single 15-inch Hydrive speaker, with a 1-inch titanium compression driver in a precision tuned, vented enclosure. Hydrive transducers are a radical change, and improvement, in bass speaker technology. Hartke’s unique hybrid cone speaker is constructed using an outside paper cone producing deep and warm low frequencies and an inside aluminum cone that produces mids that cut, yet are still sweet. Hydrive speakers incorporate a cast frame design, supporting robust motors constructed with large, edge-wound voice coils and neodymium magnets, providing increased power handling while being lightweight!
To complete the speakers systems, there’s a 1-inch titanium compression driver with level control, producing the high frequency response that allows you to get a sweet tone that cuts through the back-line. The Hydrive cabinets are constructed using high quality birch plywood with extensive bracing and dado joinery, which makes them rigid and at the same time lightweight. The vinyl covering, steel grill and corners provide added protection while moving the enclosure from gig to gig. The road tough, black and chrome biker look says you're ready to rock! Hydrive cabinets are super clean and natural with enough power handling to produce a radical range of sounds. That versatility, together with Hartke’s famous reliability, make the Hydrive combos the ideal cabinet for bassists playing jazz, funk, country, roots rock, death metal or for whatever style you create.
HyDrive transducers represent a revolutionary improvement in bass speaker technology and a major leap forward, fusing paper and aluminum in a roadworthy speaker design that is more robust and efficient than anything available. With Hartke's HyDrive series, you get the best of both worlds: the warm tone of traditional paper cones and the clear, punchy attack of aluminum.
One of the most important advances with the HyDrive speaker is its power-to-weight ratio. A HyDrive speaker weighs 40% less than traditional speakers and delivers 250 watts for the highest power-to-weight ratio of any bass speaker available. But the innovation runs even deeper. Because of its cast aluminum frame and neodymium magnets, HyDrive speakers operate cooler and deliver more reliable power handling at peak performance.
A revolutionary speaker like HyDrive warrants a cabinet design that properly transfers it sound, which is why Hartke took almost as much time developing an appropriate cabinet as they did engineering the speakers themselves. The ported cabinet featured on the HX115 was specifically engineered to extend low frequencies and provide better bass projection, so you can be sure that the power and tone of your HyDrive speaker are dispersed with great precision and articulation.
Everything about the HX115 says roadworthy durability: power to spare, steel grills, inset side handles, and each cabinet comes with four removable steel casters for easier transport. The HX115 is a ported cabinet made from the highest quality plywood with extensive bracing and dado joinery, making it rigid yet lightweight.
Delivering 500 watts of robust, bone-crushing power, it also boasts the lightest 15-inch bass speaker ever made. Put an HX115 cabinet on the bottom with an HX410 on top for the classic two-cabinet rig that thunders so much bass it will literally make your hair stand on end. With the HX115, you get reliable, powerful, portable performance night after night.
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Features
Specially-tuned, ported cabinet design
1 x 15-inch 500 watt HyDrive neodymium hybrid cone driver
1-inch titanium high frequency compression driver with level control
Precision tuned, vented enclosure
3/4" birch plywood construction
Perforated metal speaker grill
Recessed metal handles
Metal corners
Dual Speakon and 1/4" Input jacks
Durable black vinyl covering
Power Handling: 500 watts
Impedance: 8 ohms
Frequency Response: 20 Hz to 17 kHz
Sensitivity: 98 dB @ 1 W/1 m
Voice Coil: 3"
High Frequency attenuation switch (On, -6 dB, Off)
Removable casters
Specifications
Type: Vented Bass Enclosure
Low Frequency Driver
1 x 500 watt, 15-inch, heavy-duty, hybrid cone low frequency driver with neodymium motor.
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