SVS SUBWOOFERS

I tested many subwoofers in 15 years of time. You Always need a closed subwoofer with only one bass unit in the front to get stealth integration. SVS does not have the fastest response in movement of the speakerunits. How you test this? Always in stereo to hear if the subwoofder integrates with the speakers and if the proportion of the instruments and voices keep there small proportions. Many subwoofers are not good enough. For example: Jacintha in her name numer 6 of the album. The contrabass is on the left side of the recording. The weight and energy need to be on the left side also wenn the sun is on the right side of the speakers. Many subwoofers are not able to get the energy and low freq. touchable like it would be with stereo speakers only. With Audyssey pro and extrme fast subwoofers I can get full stealth integration with subwoofers and that instruments and voices keep the right dimensions. Wenn you use 3 bassports in a sub they speed is slow as hell. It is that simple!!

"I tested many subwoofers in 15 years of time. You Always need a closed subwoofer with only one bass unit in the front to get stealth integration."

Bo,
I don't doubt your experience, obviously much more than me.

I have two sealed subs up front, one in each corner and another 10" sealed in midpoint of room next to my main listening chair.

"SVS does not have the fastest response in movement of the speakerunits."

If that is so, what is your opinion on the Revel B15?

"How you test this? Always in stereo to hear if the subwoofder integrates with the speakers and if the proportion of the instruments and voices keep there small proportions."

The Revel B15 has an integrated 3-band parametric equalizer which is used in conjunction with it's LFO software and an SPL meter. Most of my integration with the Revel B15 is in stereo. Pretty seamless indeed. I bought the SVS SB13 Plus to give my 6000ft3 room some added pressurization for HT but it integrated so well musically with the Revel B15 that I run all three subs all the time.

"Many subwoofers are not good enough. For example: Jacintha in her name numer 6 of the album."

Take classical music out of the equation and then how does the SVS sealed(or ported) subs measure up?

Bill

"Take classical music out of the equation and then how does the SVS sealed(or ported) subs measure up?"

Sorry but Jacintha Number 6 sounded like a classical album, my bad. Disregard any bit about classical music. I should have done my homework before commenting.

I listen to female singer/songwriters very often like Sara Bareilles, Sarah Mclachlan, Nora Jones, Natalie Merchant, etc. and their sultry vocals and arrangements sound wonderful with my subs and mains together. IMO, tone accuracy is spot on.

Bill

The 3 ports in the SVS subs are designed to be plugged with the supplied foam plugs so you can tailor the Ported vs sealed arrangements in your own environment.

I will explain why I use the 6 of Jacintha is her name album. The contrabass is on the left side of the recording. Wenn you put the subwoofer on the right side you can hear how it integrates with the speakers. First the contrabass needs to be very small in dimension also with the subwoofer. Often wenn you but it to on/off you hear the contrabass becomes less focussed or bigger wenn the sub is set to on. Second point all the energy and drive of the contrabass need to be coming from the left side even wenn the sub is standing on the right side. With most subs the contrabass becomes less sharp focussed or bigger. You can easily hear the energy coming from the subwoofer. Wenn I let people hear this number with my sub they think and know for sure it is off. They are amazed that it is comming from the subwoofer. At a big audio show this year most people didn't understand. They never heard a subwoofer this integrated wit the speakers. That is why I call this stealth inegration. Full integration. Even wenn the low freq. are recorded far behind the speakers ( in depth) you will hear it is coming from there. I use Audyssey pro with my way of measurment to get this level. I measure at different places and hights compared to Audyssey. This way is far superior to the way Audyssey uses it. ( so much more dynamics, better focus and more resolution) There way is ok, but I use it from highend perspective. Without this measurement you never will come even close to stealth integration. But you also need sub's who are fast like a rocket. Like Revel sub's and the PLW-15 from Monitor Audio. And sub's who are sealed.