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No big box = no big soundVery little. Completely uninterested in large ugly boxes wrapped in cheap black “woodgrain” vinyl.
No big box = no big soundVery little. Completely uninterested in large ugly boxes wrapped in cheap black “woodgrain” vinyl.
Unless you’re smart.No big box = no big sound
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Explain. Unless you've copyrighted the "smart method"Unless you’re smart.
Power is cheap, good drivers are available, and multiples dramatically increase low end efficiency. So it’s not that hard to be smart, and it certainly doesn’t require the compromises of large boxes with vent resonances and basically no ability to pressurize a room below their cutoff.Explain. Unless you've copyrighted the "smart method"![]()
SVS uses a lot of DSP especially for better bottom end response, aren't they?Explain. Unless you've copyrighted the "smart method"
DSP, heavy driver with large excursion and 1000 watts might take you part of the way in a small(er) footprint. That may be considered smart. But if you have the room for a large ported sub you should get one (or two).
That doesn't change the fact that if you have room for a ported sub vs. a sealed of the same power and driver size you get a LOT more for your money with the ported.Power is cheap, good drivers are available, and multiples dramatically increase low end efficiency. So it’s not that hard to be smart, and it certainly doesn’t require the compromises of large boxes with vent resonances and basically no ability to pressurize a room below their cutoff.
Of course they do.SVS uses a lot of DSP especially for better bottom end response, aren't they?
I watched the comparison of them (ported SVS vs ported Monolith) by Erin and it's evident to my untrained eyes. If they do this much DSP stuff for ported, wonder what's the situation with sealed.
Which sub? What room?Just had a listen in their treated room and it was underwhelming. My floor standing speakers have more bass than this!
OR they did the setup wrong.
SVS SB 1000 Pro in the demo room of Richer Sounds UK.Which sub? What room?
the "chest thump" (i think) you are referring to is mid bass (50hz to 80 hz in general) ..."seat of the pants " thump is sub bass... the mid bass effect is often room modes and / or set up.. do you think they may have set up the room that way on purpose? then told you about the "chest thump" to sell you a sub?They even let it play at Max volume and it was just boomy bass. No 'chest thumping' bass I was looking for. But they let me open my delivery and try it in my place and see if I can make it work. Otherwise, I can return it and get a better one.
SVS SB 1000 Pro in the demo room of Richer Sounds UK.
They very well could have! I mean there was very little bass. But I already got a sub from them and if I return this sub, they will lose some money as it would become an open box item even though I would be buying a slightly pricier sub later.the "chest thump" (i think) you are referring to is mid bass (50hz to 80 hz in general) ..."seat of the pants " thump is sub bass... the mid bass effect is often room modes and / or set up.. do you think they may have set up the room that way on purpose? then told you about the "chest thump" to sell you a sub?
I need to measure the room modes and will be getting an Umik-1 for that. I have a 14-day return window and have to start ASAP.First step get a decent sub (or four) that measure well and have the output capability at the frequency range you need (fundamentally well designed subs will have similar performance based on their size). But after that integration is everything. If there is no room correction then you may as well not bother. Once it's integrated you can play with the house curve you want to get the requisite response that you want.
Thanks, will do.while you wait for the UMIK you can do a manual cal - use REW to do a slow or manually stepped sweep of 20-100Hz and identify the peaks/troughs either by ear or use an SPL app on your phone. It'll be approx but may help you understand the room dynamics a bit and also what freq feels like a thump to you.
Thanks, will do.
BTW, how should I set my system up? I mean I have individual sub and speaker amp volume control. Also, the Topping NX 4 has two outputs, headphone (with volume control) and line-out (with better sinad but no volume control). I guess I should use the line-out, right?
Do I start with as loud as I'm comfortable and then do the frequency sweep and measure with a phone-based SPL meter?