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This is cool that it is possible to get more Atmos height and ceiling speakers, at a price that some of us might be able to afford. But, I'm still scratching my head of the number of subwoofer channels. Why three? If someone is going with 7 on floor speakers and 6 height/top speakers, will...

Nice review Gene. I agree with your assessment that RBH might want to be a little less aggressive with the limiter on this sub. The direct competition for this subwoofer seem to be the Hsu VTF-2 mk5 and the SVS PB 2000. If the RBH sub can eek out about 3 dB more without significantly...

Nice review. I noticed one typo though. On the long term output compression figures the Caption says that these are sweeps for the Hsu subwoofer that was recently reviewed.

I think that a fair comparison with SVS, Rythmik and HSU for a $500 ported sub would be the SVS PB1000, Rythmik LV12R and the HSU VTF-2 mk5. They are all within about $80 of each other if we ignore shipping cost. If we wanted to do a fair comparison with a SVS PB2000, then a shootout between...

I was looking at some of the nice and detailed measurements for various amps at Audioholics. The Outlaw 5000 amp can sort of do this. It can deliver 170 Watts continuously and cleanly into a 2 channels where the speakers are 8 Ohms, but the peaks can only get up to about 230 Watts right at the...

I guess my question of more of a theoretical question, but I was trying to use at least something specific to make things easier for myself to understand. Assume that you have a blu-ray disc will lossless (equivalent to uncompressed) audio. So there can be big dynamic swings, if it is mastered...

Gene, This is an excellent article. Unfortunately, amplifier rating from the manufacturer are becoming about as meaningless as contrast ratios from display manufactures. This is why we need to read the Audioholics review to look at real world measurements. I have a follow up question that I...

Maybe the subwoofer was shaking the video recording device, but at 25 to 30 seconds in it looked like the side wall was flexing like crazy. As long as that is not the case here, I'm pretty excited to see what the price and measured performance is for this sub.

I'm not sure I agree. If the speakers are wireless, then they need to be plugged in to an outlet for power. Most people will not likely have outlets up high on the walls or on the ceiling. I would have an easier time running speaker wire in the walls than trying to get outlets up high on the...

Nice summary Gene. I did want to point out one subtlety that I don't think was mentioned. When we first started getting Blu-Rays and HD-DVDs and Dolby Digital + was the encoding of some soundtracks on those early discs, it seemed to always be the case that we were typically getting a quality...

Nice review Marshall. It is nice to have a good sub in the $400 range to recommend, where until now there was only the Hsu STF2. I do have one issue with the review however. Placing subwoofers in the front corners, while many people still like the look of them that way, is not the best...

I'm excited about immersive audio. However, as physical media is starting to go away, it doesn't seem like enough people care about lossless audio for it to move into streaming, which is not great in the audio world. We may be taking a step back while taking a step forward.

I think this thread has gone off the deep end. The SPLs that many are talking about, if they are accurate, are not even close to safe to be exposed to for short term and definitely not sustained. I can see the allure of wanting to turn it up as much as we possibly can, since it is exciting...

Very interesting article. I found the experiment that was performed on the 9 individuals in a somewhat scientific manner to be the most interesting part. The deep bass region has a pressure sensation on the head and ears. The midbass had more of an effect on the chest, especially between 50...

I think you were kind of joking about this, but you can never be sure, since all I am reading is text. But, adding a second subwoofer won't do much give you more headroom. I guess you could get the most benefit if you stacked the subs. But, it is more about getting even response throughout...

Anybody know if XTZ offers a discount for multiple subwoofer purchases at the same time?

The specs look great (from the table). It sounds like if they had HDMI 2.0 and HDCP 2.2 and could improve the interface, they might have had their own niche, being the first UHD streaming box. Hopefully they can improve things quickly enough with the ProBox 3 or 4 to stay ahead of the...

I don't know if Marshal saying that Yamaha's presence height speakers sounding very close to Dolby Atmos is a good thing. From reviews that I have read, it was mentioned that Yamaha's height speakers aren't worth the time and effort, because of the minimal added effect. I'm still a little...

I think I was a little bit off on this. Since the PV-15X takes a larger dip starting at 50 Hz and below, we should be comparing the sweep at 115db with the XV15 on the 110db sweep in terms of distortion, so that the two subs are at the same level from 40Hz and down. In this case THD begins to...

I'm sorry, I just don't see it. Looking over on data-bass comparing the Reaction PV15X and the Powersound Audio XV15 (I don't think Josh measured the SE version of this one) there are several metrics we can compare. Long term output compression: The shape of the XV15 just makes much more...