Paul_Dunlop
Second Unit
- Joined
- Nov 28, 2001
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So I met up with Mason at Sonic Boom (store sign says Electronics for Less)
and bought a PB 10 on Wednesday night
Very nice guy - had a short talk about different subs, cables and speakers
He stayed late at the store to meet me, since I couldn't get there before closing
2 SVS guys were on their way to his store that night, to talk about the new products - I didn't have time to stick around and say Hi
Wednesday night -
So I get the beast home and couldn't set it up until 9:30pm - grr -no time to test it out that night - I found that the gain setting needed to be set to 75% and still didn't hear much - oh well, not calibrated yet, so not worried
My old sub was an Energy 8.2 - very happy with it, so it got moved upstairs to my stereo setup.
Thursday night
I had a chance to run the Auto Setup from my Denon 2307
My old sub setting was at -2.5db - this is definitely why I wasn't getting much out of the sub the night before
So I set the PB 10 gain to 40% and ran the auto setup
This time it bumped the receiver setting to +9.5db
Played a couple of Eagles songs in DTS and it sounded GREAT
Then watched some HD TV (Dolby Digital) at relatively quiet volumes - still sounded excellent - very clean bass
So - I have read that you should manually set the sub setting on the receiver to -5db to limit distortion - I need to see if I can do this, AFTER the auto setup has run - the screen I view after auto setup is info only - no editing
I will be messing around with it tonight - some serious loudness testing at 4:30pm
I have the HD NIN concert using TRUEHD and it sounded awesome before - cannot wait to try it with the new sub!
I will post some pics of my setup and more info on Monday
Room size is W=8' H= 7' L=16' - open to the rest of the basement by about 10' on one side
Sub is placed beside the Left Front speaker (on the inside) and is on the closed wall side.
Phase setting is at 0 - have not tried to adjust that yet
and bought a PB 10 on Wednesday night
Very nice guy - had a short talk about different subs, cables and speakers
He stayed late at the store to meet me, since I couldn't get there before closing
2 SVS guys were on their way to his store that night, to talk about the new products - I didn't have time to stick around and say Hi
Wednesday night -
So I get the beast home and couldn't set it up until 9:30pm - grr -no time to test it out that night - I found that the gain setting needed to be set to 75% and still didn't hear much - oh well, not calibrated yet, so not worried
My old sub was an Energy 8.2 - very happy with it, so it got moved upstairs to my stereo setup.
Thursday night
I had a chance to run the Auto Setup from my Denon 2307
My old sub setting was at -2.5db - this is definitely why I wasn't getting much out of the sub the night before
So I set the PB 10 gain to 40% and ran the auto setup
This time it bumped the receiver setting to +9.5db
Played a couple of Eagles songs in DTS and it sounded GREAT
Then watched some HD TV (Dolby Digital) at relatively quiet volumes - still sounded excellent - very clean bass
So - I have read that you should manually set the sub setting on the receiver to -5db to limit distortion - I need to see if I can do this, AFTER the auto setup has run - the screen I view after auto setup is info only - no editing
I will be messing around with it tonight - some serious loudness testing at 4:30pm
I have the HD NIN concert using TRUEHD and it sounded awesome before - cannot wait to try it with the new sub!
I will post some pics of my setup and more info on Monday
Room size is W=8' H= 7' L=16' - open to the rest of the basement by about 10' on one side
Sub is placed beside the Left Front speaker (on the inside) and is on the closed wall side.
Phase setting is at 0 - have not tried to adjust that yet