Ocean Way Audio S10A 10-inch Powered Studio Subwoofer (2024)

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Want to hear everything you’re recording? If you’ve been monitoring on nearfields, we have a recommendation. The Ocean Way Audio S10A subwoofer is a perfect way to transform your small speakers into a full-range monitor system that's ideal for serious home recording studios and other applications where powerful, tight, and accurate bass extension enhances your listening experience. Designed by five-time Grammy award-winning engineer/producer and iconic studio owner Allen Sides, the S10A plumbs the depths down to 20Hz, making it as effective at reinforcing the deep bass in project studio monitoring systems as it is in delivering full cinematic impact in home theater installations.

Flexible controls for easy setup

The Ocean Way Audio S10A is designed to integrate seamlessly into any music monitoring or multichannel theatrical system — and makes a particularly savvy choice for mating with Ocean Way Audio HR5 reference monitors. Featuring XLR input and output connectors for flexible installation, the S10A also gives you parameter adjustments that include gain, LF and crossover adjustments, and variable delay so that you can perfectly integrate it into any audio setup. It also features a 12V trigger input/output for power conservation and other applications. The S10A’s robust 300-watt amplifier delivers ample power for a gut-pounding 110dB Max SPL, and multiple S10A subwoofers can be combined into a larger system such as a cinema screen channel.

Ocean Way: a legacy of unerring sonic quality

In 1976, Grammy-winning recording engineer/producer Allen Sides started leasing the former United Western Studios in Hollywood, originally built in 1952 by legendary engineer/audio designer Bill Putnam. In 1988 he purchased the property and changed the name to Ocean Way Recording, and also added Record One in Sherman Oaks to the Ocean Way Family. In 1997 he opened Ocean Way Nashville on Music Row. Over the years, Sides personally worked on over 1,000 albums by top artists like Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Eric Clapton, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Phil Collins, and Alanis Morissette; and it is estimated that albums recorded in Mr. Sides’s studios have sold in excess of one billion copies. Housed in a 16,000 square-foot beachfront villa at the exclusive Eden Rock Resort on the Caribbean island paradise of Saint Barthélemy, Ocean Way St. Barths was created to provide the ultimate creative environment for this level of clientele.

Mr. Sides, who had been building audiophile speakers since he was a teenager, designed the unerringly accurate monitors used in all his control rooms and provided custom designs for many of his clients’ studios. The Ocean Way brand had become synonymous with uncompromising sonic quality, and Ocean Way Audio was the next logical step, enabling studios of all sizes to avail themselves of this remarkable technology. Sweetwater is proud to offer you this distinguished line of professional products.

Ocean Way Audio S10A 10-inch Powered Studio Subwoofer Features:

• An ideal companion to the Ocean Way Audio HR5 reference monitors
• Enclosure type: sealed
• 300-watt internal amplifier
• Driver Configuration: single 10-inch woofer
• Frequency response: 20Hz–120Hz
• 110dB Maximum SPL
• Stereo XLR Inputs
• Flexible controls for Gain, LF Adjust, Crossover, Delay, and more
• I/O: XLR In (L/R), XLR Out (L/R), 12V Trigger (In/Out)
• Dimensions (inches): 14 H x 14 W x 18.5 D
• Weight: 52 pounds