Chris_O
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- Joined
- Mar 4, 2002
- Messages
- 27
One month after I placed my order for my 20-39 PCi it finally arrived. I have to admit I was a little hesitant about ordering a sub that I have never heard but after reading so many positive comments I thought I'd take a chance. Worse case I have 45 days to send it back if it doesn't meet my expectations. Well I had the house to myself for about 6 hours today and all I can say is my SVS isn't leaving my house unless someone it pulling it out of my cold dead hands. The bass is awesome, and my entire system seems louder and cleaner.
My first step, after unpacking and drooling, was to place it in a corner and calibrate using avia. Now that is out of the way lets throw in Toy Story 2 and TPM and see what she can do. Well I have some good bass but it's not the gut wrenching bass I was hearing about, something must be wrong. Threw avia back in and check the test tone, getting 85db easily, so I ran avia's LFE frequency sweep and the bass it strong until about 40HZ and then a major drop off on the SPL Meter, at least 20 DB. I do have a large opening to the kitchen on that side of the room, maybe it is more of a factor than I thought. I moved the sub to the corner on the opposite side of the room. Checked the test tones and still getting 85 db, so I ran the LFE frequency sweep again. Major improvement, I still get some drop off below 30HZ but no more that 10db. So if you factor in the corrections for the Radio Shack SPL meter I was only loosing a couple of DB's at 20 HZ. That's more like it.
I threw Toy Story 2 back in and hit play. Wow, my entire room was shaking. I could feel it in the floor, my couch, and my bones. This is amazing. My dogs didn't like it though, they went running to the other end of the house. Then played some of the TPM, Haunting DTS, ID4, etc... It was amazing, I even cranked it up to reference level, no distortion or bottoming of the sub at all. My room is only 14ft by 16ft with 8ft ceiling and only one opening about 5ft.
I usually listen to about 90% HT and only 10% music but I threw some music in anyway and It was amazing too. The bass was fast and tight. I tried everything from Beasty Boys, Metallica, and some old Tecno ultimate bass cd's I had. The CD even had a warning sticker. "Warning extremely low bass, may damage speakers" The SVS ate it up. I cranked the volume as loud as I could stand it and no problems. I think my ears bottomed out though.
I have some serious DVD watching planned for this weekend ( I quit watching while I was waiting for my SVS ) but so far I am very happy with my purchase. After reading a lot of post on this forum the past few months I was beginning to think some of you were overly obsessed with SVS but now I understand what you are feeling. This is one amazing sub. Thanks Ron and Tom for all of you hard work on the new PCi, it has definitely paid off.
Chris
My first step, after unpacking and drooling, was to place it in a corner and calibrate using avia. Now that is out of the way lets throw in Toy Story 2 and TPM and see what she can do. Well I have some good bass but it's not the gut wrenching bass I was hearing about, something must be wrong. Threw avia back in and check the test tone, getting 85db easily, so I ran avia's LFE frequency sweep and the bass it strong until about 40HZ and then a major drop off on the SPL Meter, at least 20 DB. I do have a large opening to the kitchen on that side of the room, maybe it is more of a factor than I thought. I moved the sub to the corner on the opposite side of the room. Checked the test tones and still getting 85 db, so I ran the LFE frequency sweep again. Major improvement, I still get some drop off below 30HZ but no more that 10db. So if you factor in the corrections for the Radio Shack SPL meter I was only loosing a couple of DB's at 20 HZ. That's more like it.
I threw Toy Story 2 back in and hit play. Wow, my entire room was shaking. I could feel it in the floor, my couch, and my bones. This is amazing. My dogs didn't like it though, they went running to the other end of the house. Then played some of the TPM, Haunting DTS, ID4, etc... It was amazing, I even cranked it up to reference level, no distortion or bottoming of the sub at all. My room is only 14ft by 16ft with 8ft ceiling and only one opening about 5ft.
I usually listen to about 90% HT and only 10% music but I threw some music in anyway and It was amazing too. The bass was fast and tight. I tried everything from Beasty Boys, Metallica, and some old Tecno ultimate bass cd's I had. The CD even had a warning sticker. "Warning extremely low bass, may damage speakers" The SVS ate it up. I cranked the volume as loud as I could stand it and no problems. I think my ears bottomed out though.
I have some serious DVD watching planned for this weekend ( I quit watching while I was waiting for my SVS ) but so far I am very happy with my purchase. After reading a lot of post on this forum the past few months I was beginning to think some of you were overly obsessed with SVS but now I understand what you are feeling. This is one amazing sub. Thanks Ron and Tom for all of you hard work on the new PCi, it has definitely paid off.
Chris
