Ok, I have only listened to this thing for about an hour.
My initial thoughts are that this sub is quite musical, but great for HT as well.
Superb extension...
Some songs I briefed through with excellent bass.
Madonna - Justify My Love
Falco - Der Kommisar
Enrique Iglesias - Escape
Mariah Carey - Fantasy
Evanescence - Wake Me Up Inside (Bring Me To Life)
Moby - Green Sally Up (Flower)
Metallica - Battery
The Eagles - One Of These Nights
Eminem - Slim Shady
etc.....
As of now, I have only viewed one movie scene.
Terminator 3 'Chase scene' Particulary when he is on the fire trucks hook, and crashing through the dept. store. It played sounds that I had not heard before, obviously lower extension sound. With the settings I said in prior post, the sub at this low volume does seriously shake the foundation on my concrete floors (well concrete under my wood floors) Once again, the gain knob is only at 3.
(EDIT:: The clarity of the bass is unbelievable)
Next viewing will be DTS Demo #9 disc...
And more movies to come.
Obviously, I will need a few days to get the full effect from this. So this is just initial thoughts.
I did so far seem to like it best cut at 80hz with LFE output. I tried 100hz and 50hz. 80 seems best so far. Also I will get into using the subs crossover, but more time than an hour will be needed
The bass is by no means muddy, and it has blended in well with my mains.
Since I have played around with placement options with other subs, I kinda already had the main idea where to place it. And it seems to work well there.
It is placed in the front soundstage area in between the center and right main. The front mains are about 10' apart. No its not corner loaded, I tried corner loading before and did not get a good response. But anyhow, it is placed about as right as can be in my room. Which is about 19.5x13x8. I still have to pull the port plug, and test many options that way as well. For me, I have a feeling since I listen at lower volumes, that I will prefer the lower extension with the port plug in.
In about 3 days time, I will be able to give a better description.
But, I will leave on saying this. If you can afford one - THEN BY ALL MEANS GET ONE.
