Funk Audio 18.3 Subs Up and Running

[jay21112]

After a very long year, I finally got my Funk Audio 18.3 Subs up and running.
Had a lot of room preparation I wanted to do before putting them up (and a lot of other projects around the house that took priority), but as of yesterday they are fully functional.

So what did it take to get them running you ask? Well:
-I now have (4) 20-amp circuits running
-I picked up an active splitter (Behringer) for bass management (4 subs and 2 transducers)
-I put shatter resistant film, plywood, acoustic panels, and curtains over the theater windows

And while I was at it:
-I painted the theater flat black floor to ceiling
-Recovered my acoustic panels with black speaker grill cloth
-Ran whisper quiet fans to all amps and electronics (16 of them),
-Biwired all speakers - not biamped - just ran the wire for now - only so much money at once

And how does it sound?
-Better than before.

Take a look at the evolution of my Front, from Year One, to Last Year, to Today.

 

[shadyJ]

Very nice, you are set for bass. You say you have 4 subs? Are they all 18.3s?

 

[jay21112]

Not yet. Just the front two.
The back two aren't worth mentioning; they are kind of just placeholders for now.

 

[shadyJ]

My advice is if the back subs are not amazing, then just remove them. One of the nice things about Funk is the extremely low distortion. By using other inferior subs with it, you raise the overall distortion level way up and mess up a very clean sound. The Funk subs do not need output help, and your rear subs are just hurting the sound, not helping. They look like the Polk subs with PRs, am I right?

 

[jay21112]

Yes, Polk - that's why I said they are just placeholders for now.

 

[jay21112]

Out with the Polk, in with the Funk.
Two in the Front, Two in the Rear.

 

[TheWarrior]

So how does 2112 sound?

 

[KEW]

Looks like you could use some Seismic Mounts to protect your seating!

 

[djreef]

Out with the Polk, in with the Funk.
Two in the Front, Two in the Rear.
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Holy Crap!

I can only imagine what the sound pressure in that room must be like at reference.

DJ

 

[jay21112]

Holy Crap!

I can only imagine what the sound pressure in that room must be like at reference.

DJ

I wouldn't know. My house would probably fall down.
They are all calibrated to -25db to reach a summed 75db at seating position.

I still have yet to hear a real movie with them. But I have Avengers for Sunday night, so hopefully that will be a good audition.

 

[KEW]

I wouldn't know. My house would probably fall down.
They are all calibrated to -25db to reach a summed 75db at seating position.

I still have yet to hear a real movie with them. But I have Avengers for Sunday night, so hopefully that will be a good audition.

I wonder at what point ear drums get ruptured!

Seriously, while I doubt this is your first pony show, I find running my subs about 5-6dB hot from Audyssey's calibration is lots of fun for an action movie without being offensive.

 

[djreef]

I wouldn't know. My house would probably fall down.
They are all calibrated to -25db to reach a summed 75db at seating position.

I still have yet to hear a real movie with them. But I have Avengers for Sunday night, so hopefully that will be a good audition.

Good luck with that Jay. That's gonne be one hella fun movie to watch on that rig.

 

[jay21112]

I wonder at what point ear drums get ruptured!

Seriously, while I doubt this is your first pony show, I find running my subs about 5-6dB hot from Audyssey's calibration is lots of fun for an action movie without being offensive.

Oh boy no for me! Audyssey usually puts the subs to like +5db, and I turn them back down to 0db, because I calibrate them summed to 75db before I even run Audyssey. So if ran them 5db hot from the already 5db hot that Audyssey tries to put them at....I fear my house would literally tear apart.

Think of that unfiltered LFE part in Edge of Tomorrow. I'd be putting my ceiling back together after that if I ran it 10db hotter than I do now.

I get away with "underpowering" the bass because I have a Buttkicker in each seat. So that takes care of the thump, and it's only sonics that I worry about with the subs.

Can't Wait to rewatch Pacific Rim, Wrath of the Titans, Battle LA, War of the Worlds...and the list goes on....

 

[djreef]

So, how'd it go?

DJ

 

[jay21112]

I think I have them all at -23 so they sum to 75db at listening position.
90% of the time I can't tell the difference between the 4 hooked up and the 2 hooked up.

But I can definitely tell the difference with the low extension. Every now and then when it goes down low, I can hear the house "settle" a bit. It's fun.