Totally upgraded with the best parts available. More dynamics, air, clarity, and detail!

Lift the veil for the cleanest SSX ever!

Upgrades Include: Jupiter HT Caps, OCC wire, and Special Resistors.

Make your speakers disappear!

The FOZ SSX is not an “Old School” tone control. The Foz SSX is actually an Audio Sound Processor circuit designed by legendary surround sound pioneer Jim Fosgate. The SSX doesn’t distort or clip the highs and lows like ordinary tone controls. That method would result in a loss of detail and an unnatural sound. The Dimension Pro Circuit blends seamlessly into the presentation and shapes the signal based on the corrections you dial in!

The Dimension Pro Circuit can produce a life-like sound and imaging and help make your speakers disappear into the background. The SSX can expand or narrow your sound stage and elevate your speakers to a new level.

*Acoustically treated rooms will greatly diminish the effect of the SSX Dimension Pro technology. The SSX is designed for difficult rooms that can not be treated in a traditional way.

*The FOZ SSX is available through Black Ice Direct only.

Construction Details & Features

• Logic Display: Origination of Left Channel, Right Channel, In Phase, Out of Phase Signals.

  
  

• Bass Control: increase bass up to 9 dB low bass impact without bass boom or reduce the boom up to 9 dB

  
  

• Multiple Inputs: 3 Selectable Inputs.

  
  

• Hybrid Sound: Uses a 12AU7 tube to buffer and clean the input signal.

  
  

• Components: Bourns Potentiometers, Gold Plated RCA Jacks.

  
  

BLACK ICE FOZ SSX SOUND STAGE EXPANDER HILIGHTS

THE LOGIC DISPLAY

The Black Ice Logic Display is not just a gimmick and pretty lights. It is a powerful tool that shows you exactly what the audio engineer recorded in the right and left channels. It also shows what the engineer placed in and out of phase in the track. Phase is used by engineers to create the illusion of three-dimensional sound. This information is used to properly tune the Dimension Pro knob on the SSX. We recommend listening to a track with the Dimension Pro Circuit at the 12 O’clock position(bypassed) to see if the recording is IN or OUT of phase. For example, if the track is in-phase then you will want to set the knob toward the wide and adjust it for your room.

DIMENSION PRO CIRCUIT

The Dimension Pro is a breakthrough, it will allow you to overcome the limitations of your space and interior design needs without having to worry about proper speaker placement. The speakers and the room will disappear with a turn of the Dimension Pro knob. The design goes back to the early ’80s and is based on a fix for early multi-channel home theater setups that had trouble creating a proper 3D sound field. The circuit can move phasing to a narrow field and make two speakers image as one like a center channel. Conversely, the circuit can widen the phasing and expand the sound field which removes the confinement of the walls of a room without losing the center image. Allowing the listener the ability to focus or widen the soundstage. The results are increased three-dimensional images and an expansive soundstage that has the ability to expand beyond the walls of the room.

BASS CONTROL

The bass equalizer circuit is designed to increase up to 9 dB low bass impact without bass boom. Conversely, in the event of boomy bass, the bass equalizer can reduce the boom up to 9 dB at 20 Hz

NO COLORATION

Only one coupling capacitor per channel in the signal path, and is enclosed within the feedback loop. Capacitor colorations are eliminated by this design.

TUBE BUFFER

The signal passes thru the tube which buffers and cleans the signal and adds that tube sound to any source.

SELECTABLE INPUTS

Three Gold Plated RCA Inputs to connect components and a 3 position toggle switch for input selection.

INCLUDED IN THE BOX

• FOZ SSX Sound Stage Expander

  
  

• 1 x 12AU7 Output Tube

  
  

• Power cord