Dillinger Labs™
Death From Below Mk2 (Pre-Order)
Death From Below Mk2 (Pre-Order)
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Shipping early Summer 2025
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Death from Below is a hit. 94% of DFB owners love it, reporting it’s the perfect companion to their Soundboks 3, 4 or Go (amongst others). To them we say THANK YOU! Thank you also for reading the owner’s manual and figuring out how to set volume ;)
No offence to you 94%, but we’ve been even more interested in the 6% of you that didn’t like it. We spent a lot of time digging into your feedback and figuring out exactly why you weren’t happy.
About 1% of you were disappointed that DFB didn't have wired inputs
and/or wired outputs. It still doesn’t. Sorry. DFB is a SKAA subwoofer, as
advertised, and that’s no different in Mk2.
The remaining 5% of you were dissatisfied with the way DFB’s volume works, or in it’s max SPL (loudness), or when distortion starts, or in a combination of these things. These criticisms hit home with us. In these, we knew DFB Mk2 had to be way better.
We started by making the volume work more intuitively. Now you can crank the volume to the top and still have clean bass.We didn’t use brute force. We didn’t just throw watts at it. That means we also didn’t compromise battery life or weight. None of the refinements involved adding dynamics compression in the DSP. But we did carefully sculpt the EQ presets to make Mk2 sound even sweeter. Exactly zero people complained DFB didn’t have enough bells & whistles, so we didn’t add any.
In total we made 50 refinements. Some were foundational, such as the enhancements we made to the ports and acoustic chamber. Others were little things, like making the power button white so you can easily find it in a dark room. The lion’s share of the refinements add up to an extra 6 dB SPL of clean bass. Mk2 is way louder, and it’s also way clearer.
Specifications
Connectivity
- Inputs: SKAA / SKAA Pro (auto switching; automatically follows the transmitter class)
- Works with all SKAA/SKAA Pro sources including Dani Pro transmitters and all SKAA Hub speakers (for example, Soundboks 3, 4, & Go)
- Wireless Range: Up to 50-meter reliable range (actual range will depend also on the antenna implementation in the transmit-side device)
Audio
- Woofer: 2 x 8" Low Frequency Drivers, each with dedicated amplifier
- Amplifier Type: Multilevel Class D x 2
- Amplifier Power: 144 WRMS (2 x 72W Infineon Merus Ultra-Efficient Multi-Level D-amps)
- Amp Heat Sink: direct connect 215 x 130 x 3 external aluminum plate
- Volume: 30-step local control plus global control
- Punch Enhancement: 3 x Film Capacitors + 5 x Low ESR Electrolytic Capacitors
- 6 EQ Presets (with 1 tuned specifically for popular Soundboks full-range speakers)
- Dual Bass Reflex Ports
- DSP: Analog Devices DSP provides filtering, EQ and pop-free live switching of user EQ presets
- Frequency Response @ 3dB: 25Hz - 180Hz
Interface
- Power/Gear button
- Power LED
- Bond Button
- Bond Indicator
- 30-step Volume rotary encoder
- Battery Fuel Gauge (5 LED stack)
- EQ preset select (Wide, Outdoor, SB++, Punch, Tight, Bottom)
- Audio Routing select (L, R or Mono Mix)
- Time Alignment select (Phase Flip, 2ms, 4ms, 7ms, 11ms delays)
- Works with (optional) SKAA cmd (free app) when used with Diz, Ursula, and Cassandra Transmitters
Power
- Internal Battery: 115 Wh, 12-cell 18650 Li-ION
- Battery Life: Up to 40 Hours at regular listening volume
- Charge Time: Charge from empty to full in 2.5 Hours
- Brick Power Supply: 26V 125W (included)
- Charge the battery and play DFB at full volume at the same time
Cabinet
- Build: 12mm (1/2") Birch Plywood
- Pole Bushing: 1 3/8" (35mm) x 4" deep welded steel (pole not included)
- Weight: 15.5 kg (34 pounds)
- Dual monkey grip handles
- Self-levelling honeycomb-cell soft rubber feet x4
- Rear wall rubber feet x4
- 25 × 61.7 × 47.5 cm (H × W × D)
- 9.8 × 24.3 × 18.7 inches (H × W × D)
- 27.4 × 61.7 × 49.5 cm (H × W × D)
- 10.8 × 24.3 × 19.5 inches (H × W × D)
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