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CnoEvil

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bigboss said:
Both Nissan Micra with 1.0 litre engine and Mercedes E class with 2.0 litre engine can do 70mph. Which one would you prefer to drive on the motorway?

It's more like comparing a Golf 1.6TDi with a Golf 2.0 TDi. *wink*
 

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I have had a loved a BK and now I own SVS I would buy the SVS for movies - I squeezed serious performance out of a BK XLS400 - I had it showing up subs in the thousands of pounds range because of how it was setup - but its got its limits.

the SVS is designed differently - they can manipulste the power to the driver to give it the freq response extension - freq extension eats up your power so lower power is not good.

BK use a Linkwitz filter to boost the sub but if you put the sub in a field and test it the extension would be dire - look at the 2m ground plane for the Sb2000 - its extending to about 40hz with no room gain - add some room gain you might get some useable 30hz bass out if it which is happy days,

But if the BK looka nicer to you its still a good sub and can give you a really good film experience.

your most obtuse post to date
 

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Samd said:
ellisdj said:
I have had a loved a BK and now I own SVS I would buy the SVS for movies - I squeezed serious performance out of a BK XLS400 - I had it showing up subs in the thousands of pounds range because of how it was setup - but its got its limits.

the SVS is designed differently - they can manipulste the power to the driver to give it the freq response extension - freq extension eats up your power so lower power is not good.

BK use a Linkwitz filter to boost the sub but if you put the sub in a field and test it the extension would be dire - look at the 2m ground plane for the Sb2000 - its extending to about 40hz with no room gain - add some room gain you might get some useable 30hz bass out if it which is happy days,

But if the BK looka nicer to you its still a good sub and can give you a really good film experience.

your most obtuse post to date

it wasnt intended to be - why do you think that?
 

Blacksabbath25

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Blacksabbath25 said:
now the SVS sub has 500wtts but a lot more money then both BK subs its a hard choice now would i use all of the 500wtts on the SVS sub ?
Both Nissan Micra with 1.0 litre engine and Mercedes E class with 2.0 litre engine can do 70mph. Which one would you prefer to drive on the motorway?
the Mercedes any day but I drive a Ford Focus eco 125 with a turbo so I get 1.6 power *smile* anyway I no what you mean I've spoken to David and will order the SVS on Monday
 

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Maybe I didnt explain what I meant correctly.
If you put a speaker driver in a small sealed box it will roll off aggressively in its basd freq and give you very limited frequency extension at 0db
How do sub companies overcome this limitation - in different ways.
BK use a linkwitz filter I am pretty sure to apply some low freq boost to the sub so it can produce deeper bass from the small sealed box.

SVS do it via their digital amplifiers - they can manipulate the output at the lower frequencies to get the sub to output more lower frequencies.

The test is put them in a field and measure them nearfield and see which works best.

There was some tests done on the xls400 I did look for them but couldn't find them but I am pretty sure from memory it rolled off quite steeply. That is what I am basing my comments on. Sorry if that came across wrong.

KK did it with 2 small speakers in an odd configuration - he managed to do it with less power but much more cone area.
 

Samd

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ellisdj said:
Samd said:
ellisdj said:
I have had a loved a BK and now I own SVS I would buy the SVS for movies - I squeezed serious performance out of a BK XLS400 - I had it showing up subs in the thousands of pounds range because of how it was setup - but its got its limits.

the SVS is designed differently - they can manipulste the power to the driver to give it the freq response extension - freq extension eats up your power so lower power is not good.

BK use a Linkwitz filter to boost the sub but if you put the sub in a field and test it the extension would be dire - look at the 2m ground plane for the Sb2000 - its extending to about 40hz with no room gain - add some room gain you might get some useable 30hz bass out if it which is happy days,

But if the BK looka nicer to you its still a good sub and can give you a really good film experience.

your most obtuse post to date

it wasnt intended to be - why do you think that?

Para 3 - the only bit I understood was 'happy days' *i-m_so_happy*
 

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Samd said:
ellisdj said:
Samd said:
ellisdj said:
I have had a loved a BK and now I own SVS I would buy the SVS for movies - I squeezed serious performance out of a BK XLS400 - I had it showing up subs in the thousands of pounds range because of how it was setup - but its got its limits.

the SVS is designed differently - they can manipulste the power to the driver to give it the freq response extension - freq extension eats up your power so lower power is not good.

BK use a Linkwitz filter to boost the sub but if you put the sub in a field and test it the extension would be dire - look at the 2m ground plane for the Sb2000 - its extending to about 40hz with no room gain - add some room gain you might get some useable 30hz bass out if it which is happy days,

But if the BK looka nicer to you its still a good sub and can give you a really good film experience.

 your most obtuse post to date

it wasnt intended to be - why do you think that?

Para 3 - the only bit I understood was 'happy days' *i-m_so_happy*

Sorry dude
 

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bigboss said:
Blacksabbath25 said:
now the SVS sub has 500wtts but a lot more money then both BK subs its a hard choice now would i use all of the 500wtts on the SVS sub ?
Both Nissan Micra with 1.0 litre engine and Mercedes E class with 2.0 litre engine can do 70mph. Which one would you prefer to drive on the motorway?
My AMG CLK63 - its 475 ponies make F350 duallies trying to mate with my rear bumper just specks in the mirror :)
 

Blacksabbath25

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Well it arrived safely thanks David

ive roughly set the sub up currently theses are the settings I've made and sure if something is wrong in how I set it up someone will put me right it sounds ok anyway here goes... I have one phono connected on the LFE on the subwoofer and input 1 on the Yamaha

volume control set at 12 o'clock

Phase Control set at 0

Low Pass Filter set to LFE

Av end all speakers set to 80hz

ive measured the distance from where I sit and did a SPL measurement for rough 75db

right I currently have a free sat Humax sat box and not sure if this is the issue but channels like BBC use Dolby pro- logic if that is still used the sub works on channels like this but if I go to a different channal the sub does not detect a bass signal so goes into standby is this normal for free sat boxes or is it that some channels are in stereo ?

Watched a couple of films but only testing ... terminator 2 , trainsformars , I've got to say one thing now what a hell of a sub out of the box it sounds very good and it's very powerful as I was mucking around with the sub volume and took it past to max and there is a that bit in terminator 2 when the T1000 and Arnold meet after the games arcade when Arnold fires his shotgun it felt like he had shot me you could say I felt it and so did my wife as she nearly chocked on her Cuper tea . I had to turn it down but it's amazing how powerful this little sub is it's unbelievable .

i can't tell the sub from the rest of the fronts so I take it that's a good thing ? But basically if there is anything I've not done please let me know *smile*
 

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