David Judah
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I didn't find them slow necessarily, just not particularly articulate throughout the upper bass regions
The GD numbers in the upper bass region should be close to equal to a sealed sub, but output will definitely suffer up there due to the low tuning. It's the price you pay for extension and it's not just an SVS thing--it's a compromise that any manufacturer would face.
What alot of commercial designs do, however, is sacrifice the low end for more output up high. The problem with that though is that you can't recapture the low end when you need to.
A better solution, IMO, is to have MAINS that can go relatively low, mated with a low tuned sub(like SVS), and a lower crossover. You get the best of both worlds, which sounds like what you got when you lowered your crossover.
DJ