Daddy's home!!!...

[Steelers252006]

...sitting in a box just a smidge too wide for media room doorway, unless I want to tear up my freshly painted trim, to fit through. You know how SVS gives you convenient handles? I'm a fairly strong dude, so lifting one end of this box with the FEDEX guy kindly lifting the other wasn't bad honestly. I walked up the steps backwards, makes it tougher obviously, but I had it. No, the part I messed up on was trying to grab those damn handles. The handles literally ripped out of the box in my hands, box fell on my toes, which are likely made of steel as I'm from the planet Krypton so all was well somehow. Still all in all not too bad getting the ol' boy up here. Can't wait for later when I have time to mess with it!!

 

[ryanosaur]

ahhh... nothing like a big box-o-woof!

 

[Steelers252006]

Here's the current setup right now. I ordered a longer RCA cable, plan on putting it in the left corner and adjusting from there. I also adjusted my front towers from large to small. Is that what I'm supposed to do? What else should I adjust? I have the crossover for the LFE set at 80, sub set at -10. The low end makes the room vibrate...pretty cool!

 

[ryanosaur]

LFE should stay at 120. With your speaker crossovers, those should likely be 60. But you’ll need to experiment to determine what sounds best... 40 will be too low. 80 might be fine. for me, the difference was slightly cleaner bass response and highs.

 

[ryanosaur]

It occurs to me... the Low Frequency Effect, or .1 channel is specifically designed to carry information usually from around 18 Hz up to 120 Hz and is used mostly in movies where that information is channel specific. This is why it’s usually recommended to not change that setting: if you do you are cutting off part of your experience.

 

[Steelers252006]

It occurs to me... the Low Frequency Effect, or .1 channel is specifically designed to carry information usually from around 18 Hz up to 120 Hz and is used mostly in movies where that information is channel specific. This is why it’s usually recommended to not change that setting: if you do you are cutting off part of your experience.

Sorry, I think I wrote it wrong. I meant the sub crossover at 80, left the other one at 120., yeah. I also plugged up one of the ports. I don't know why, but I did. LOL. I listened to it earlier with no ports plugged and was pretty amazed.

 

[Sef_Makaro]

Sorry, I think I wrote it wrong. I meant the sub crossover at 80, left the other one at 120., yeah. I also plugged up one of the ports. I don't know why, but I did. LOL. I listened to it earlier with no ports plugged and was pretty amazed.

When you say sub crossover do you mean the crossover in speaker settings on the AVR or the one on the back of the sub?

 

[Steelers252006]

When you say sub crossover do you mean the crossover in speaker settings on the AVR or the one on the back of the sub?

There's one on the back of the sub? Hahaha!!! Good God, I need to learn more!! I adjusted it through my receiver settings, haven't even had time yet to mess with the SVS app. How is it done otherwise?

 

[Sef_Makaro]

There's one on the back of the sub? Hahaha!!! Good God, I need to learn more!! I adjusted it through my receiver settings, haven't even had time yet to mess with the SVS app. How is it done otherwise?

Haha. I assume there’s one on the back of that sub too. Double check and make sure it’s set as high as possible.

LFE set to 120, crossover on the sub maxed out, then you can adjust the crossover point for the loudspeakers in the AVR.

 

[ryanosaur]

There's one on the back of the sub? Hahaha!!! Good God, I need to learn more!! I adjusted it through my receiver settings, haven't even had time yet to mess with the SVS app. How is it done otherwise?

All of that stuff is in the App. There should probably be a BYPASS setting. if there is, choose that, or set high as suggested above. IIRC, the PB16 has no controls on the plate amp, which is where most subs have those. Of course, you have that little dispay on front... should be able to set it there if you don't have the app set up.

 

[ryanosaur]

Also, if you see controls for phase: set to 0 for starters. If you have a LPF / Low Pass Filter, set to BYPASS.

 

[Sef_Makaro]

All of that stuff is in the App. There should probably be a BYPASS setting. if there is, choose that, or set high as suggested above. IIRC, the PB16 has no controls on the plate amp, which is where most subs have those. Of course, you have that little dispay on front... should be able to set it there if you don't have the app set up.

I stand corrected. Looked up pictures of the back and it’s just I/O.

 

[CB22]

Congrats! That’s one badazzzz sub! Your kids are gonna have a hard time sleeping for the next couple weeks .

 

[Steelers252006]

There's one on the back of the sub? Hahaha!!! Good God, I need to learn more!! I adjusted it through my receiver settings, haven't even had time yet to mess with the SVS app. How is it done otherwise?

Haha. I assume there’s one on the back of that sub too. Double check and make sure it’s set as high as possible.

LFE set to 120, crossover on the sub maxed out, then you can adjust the crossover point for the loudspeakers in the AVR.

Hey, man, I don't see volume on the back of it. It looks like it's all digital and set currently at minus 10 per the subwoofer. That right?

 

[Sef_Makaro]

Hey, man, I don't see volume on the back of it. It looks like it's all digital and set currently at minus 10 per the subwoofer. That right?

Yeah, I was wrong about there being one on the back. Most subs I’ve seen do, that one is fancier and has a front panel screen and app.

Where does it say -10?

The knob I was talking about was the crossover. Like Ryan was saying, you’ll want that set on “bypass” or “through” whatever equivalent terminology is used. The idea is to use the AVRs bass management instead of the sub.

That said, if I understand what I’ve read about the higher end SVS subs, they have tunable sub eq in the app. You can use that down the road to help further tune the bass in your room.

 

[Steelers252006]

Yeah, I was wrong about there being one on the back. Most subs I’ve seen do, that one is fancier and has a front panel screen and app.

Where does it say -10?

The knob I was talking about was the crossover. Like Ryan was saying, you’ll want that set on “bypass” or “through” whatever equivalent terminology is used. The idea is to use the AVRs bass management instead of the sub.

That said, if I understand what I’ve read about the higher end SVS subs, they have tunable sub eq in the app. You can use that down the road to help further tune the bass in your room.

Okay, I'll look for that setting for the bypass. I have it at -10 in the setting area that says volume. There's also a low pass filter adjustment, phase adjustment, polarity, parametric EQ (as you mentioned), and room gain compensation.

 

[William Lemmerhirt]

Yep. What Ryan said...

The lfe, or .1 is only present in film soundtracks and the lpf of lfe only refers to that.
So during movies, your sub will see 1) the lfe track(3-120hz) and all of the redirected bass below the XO point.
For music, the sub only sees below the XO.
Kinda looks like this.

Edit:holy ball$!!! I started that post a couple hours ago and ran to town. You guys’ve been
biiizzz-aaayy!!!

 

[ryanosaur]

Okay, I'll look for that setting for the bypass. I have it at -10 in the setting area that says volume. There's also a low pass filter adjustment, phase adjustment, polarity, parametric EQ (as you mentioned),and room gain compensation.

Sub gain (volume) should be set at about 50 percent to begin... when you run Audyssey, it will have you adjust it to about 73dB. Follow the instructions in audyssey, let it set the distance and levels in the AVR, and for most... you should be good to go. (Oh, and then TURN IT OFF... unless you like the way it sounds, of course.)
Low Pass Filter: bypass
Phase: 0
Parametric EQ, Polarity, and the room gain compensation: don't play with yet... you'll need to learn what those do and how they operate. In time you will! But this should get you started!

 

[Steelers252006]

I stand corrected. Looked up pictures of the back and it’s just I/O.

Here's the Room Gain setting. Is this the one you mean? If so where would I put it?

 

[ryanosaur]

Here's the Room Gain setting. Is this the one you mean? If so where would I put it?

leave that off for now.