Wow! Really glad to have found this site, great work amirm! Totally subscribe to the premise of everything here. I was seriously considering the SVS Ultra line for my home theater build coming up. I am wondering though, the gem of the line is the Ultra tower which is a 3½ way design instead of the 2 way bookshelf and even on their website they seem to acknowledge these results when they talk about the Ultra Tower cabinet design:
"Separate sealed midrange enclosures minimize top-to-bottom wall dimensions and shift standing waves beyond the driver pass band, minimizing negative driver interaction and associated frequency response degradation"
So I am wondering a couple of things:
1. Do you guys think that a port plug would reduce some of the effects that
@amirm heard in his listening sessions? The frequency response measurement done at the port starts getting pretty messy as the frequency increases which could be contributing? SVS themselves seem to be inadvertently admitting to some frequency response degradation in the bookshelf design in their description of the tower...
2. I was planning to use the ultra bookshelf as surrounds, and the ultra towers and center for the soundstage, do you think this defect in the bookshelf would be very noticeable in that duty?
Anyway, I DID have it narrowed down to the SVS Ultra line and the Wharfedale Evo line. Unfortunately, I still can't find a decent measurement of the Ultra Towers other than maybe a single on axis frequency response which is no spinorama and I can't find ANY measurements of the Wharfedale Evo line either.