Here comes the 20-39PCi, Hee-yaa!

[mkossler]

So the 20-39PCi is here, umm...

Gosh, I just have to share

After all of the great things I've read about SVS on this and other forums, I went ahead and pulled the trigger. I had a little bonus money to spend, and a partially finished basement HT project itch to scratch. The finished room is going to measure only 21x12x7.5, so I figured the 20-39PCi would be plenty. Please tell me I'm right on that one...

I actually got official, on-the-record WAF, showed her a picture with the proverbial "speak now, or forever hold yer peace". I'm not sure she quite got the scale of the damned thing though

So now I'm sittin' on a jones the size of Rhode Island, waiting for a shipping date, trying to figure out how in hell I'm going to hide this thing in the living room with the rest of the equipment, 'cause I'm sure not waiting for the basement to be finished to crunch some Telarc Surround Madness!

Waiting sucks.

Ooh baby, come to papa...

 

[Takeereasy]

Congrats, you lucky SOB. Post back with impressions so that we can see if it's living up to the hype.

 

[Doug917]

I use dual SVS 20-39CS+ subs in a room thats about 18' X 12' X 7.5' and it is probably too much. One should do fine. I just NEVER have to worry about pushing mine too hard with 2 subs as I do enjoy feeling the bass as well as hearing it. Congrats on the purchase; I'm sure it will fill the room with solid ground-shaking bass.

 

[mulester7]

.....an SVS sub on the way is a "SOUND" decision....speaking of a Jones the size of Rhode Island is "BRAGGING"....shoot, I had enough to be depressed about this morning over them damned surround receivers making a fool out of me without hearing that, haha.....

 

[shokhead]

Gosh, I just have to share

After all of the great things I've read about SVS on this and other forums, I went ahead and pulled the trigger. I had a little bonus money to spend, and a partially finished basement HT project itch to scratch. The finished room is going to measure only 21x12x7.5, so I figured the 20-39PCi would be plenty. Please tell me I'm right on that one...

I actually got official, on-the-record WAF, showed her a picture with the proverbial "speak now, or forever hold yer peace". I'm not sure she quite got the scale of the damned thing though

So now I'm sittin' on a jones the size of Rhode Island, waiting for a shipping date, trying to figure out how in hell I'm going to hide this thing in the living room with the rest of the equipment, 'cause I'm sure not waiting for the basement to be finished to crunch some Telarc Surround Madness!

Waiting sucks.

Ooh baby, come to papa...

Thats what i got and i also showed my wife a pic and how tall it was but when i got it,well its fricken Hugh so be ready to say something like,wow,its not as big as i thought.

 

[ducker]

hehe.. I showed her the pics... and let her pick what color... when it arrived she was like... what the... that's huge!
(and this is the little one out of the lot!)

muhahaha

 

[Mort Corey]

I bought the PC Ultra (same thing, different internals) and it did look huge when I took it out of the box. It's funny though, it sits in a corner and nobody even notices it at first when they come into the room......when it's running they notice it big time

Mort

 

[Rock&Roll Ninja]

Did you get black or limited edition Red ?

 

[mkossler]

I will definitely post back my impressions. So, I'm going from a 100W (RMS, I'll give it that) 8 inch to the 20-39PCi - think I'll notice a difference?

I do have a question as to whether I should keep the old "sub" (I know it's really more a woofer than sub), to boost SPL in the higher Hz range? Will a difference even be audible?

My buddy Rodnator built a basement HT about a year ago (he's a dedicated lurker but never ever posts). Lucky bastige brings me over to listen to a Rocket setup with 750 fronts and mkII 250s for surrounds and rears in a 7.1 setup (In Rosewood finish, DAMN those are some nice looking speakers)... and the piece de resistance, a PB12/2 Plus. He puts on the charge of the Rohirrim at Pellenor Fields from LOTR ROTK extended. After I got back up off the floor and put my socks and shoes back on, I thought, "how will I ever get the wife to agree to this?" Heh...

So, a 2039 in red? Oh yeah, that'd go over like a f*rt in church - nope, my humble ARs are black and so's the sub.

And I got the notice! July 5th delivery date! A-roo!

Now I gotta get me that 1000 feet of impact acoustics wire, oh yeah...

Cheers,
Matty K.

 

[mkossler]

It's here! Hoo...ray?

Oh, hell yeah.

So the SVS finally arrives, and I open the box and... ooooookay, you warned me.

It's big.

No, it's huge.

Really huge.

The wife's gonna kill me.

This thing goes back over my dead body.

Which is a distinct possibility.

P.S. Umm, I would appreciate some advice on if keeping the old "sub" makes any sense.


A temporary resting place, while the basement construction continues - Houston, we have a scale problem:

 

[Zarg]

SV Frickin' Huge Sub

Hey buddy, welcome to the SV "OMG What Have I Done?" Club!!

Rest assured, the sub will disappear into the b.g. soon. My PB-12 box certainly did.

And when the LFE kicks in, you will be very happy indeed!

Now, about your second sub? I would get rid of it -- eBay or garage sale or audioholics classifieds, or whatever. Get some cash and splurge on DVDs with some low freqs. Unless your HT room is the size of a football field, I really cannot believe you will need to augment your new SV.

Please post a review after it's been playing a bit!

 

[mulester7]

.....I love the two SVS subs I have and am in awe of them.....the two 16-46 plus's I had for about four months, I was in awe of them also....they're gone, and it would take a successful fist-fight to get them back, and I'm afraid of my Daughter, haha....Greg would never get to me....

.....if I had to give the two away I have, I believe I would come back with two of the 10 inch front-firing SVS boxes....to my door for under a grand....I'd want one in each corner of the front, front-firing, to be the slightest bit directional to the front mains I am facing....I really like the front firing subs....I like oscillations that haven't bounced at all, and you feel the seperation of the oscillations like it were coming from two bass guitar amps.....tastefully....

.....I would like to hear a comment or two from members who have the 10 inch SVS box or boxes, hopefully....I love a layer of impressive really-low across the front, with a cone popping oscillations right in my face, over....

.....I'm insulted....after six weeks of gracing you tin-eared Neanderthals with my philanthroping, I have actually had to go to work, three times, in the last three days....(APPLAUSE)....(same frown)....had to go work the switchman's job on the Conway Switcher today....after a turn to Van Buren Sunday and Monday....but there's hope, they've added another guy to the supplemental board of two I'm on and now we're three strong....I'm the oldest of the three seniority-wise....I may not work again 'till Thanksgiving, haha....it's uphill, boys...........

 

[Buckeyefan 1]

Oh, hell yeah.
So the SVS finally arrives, and I open the box and... ooooookay, you warned me.
It's big.
No, it's huge.
Really huge.
The wife's gonna kill me.
This thing goes back over my dead body.
Which is a distinct possibility.
P.S. Umm, I would appreciate some advice on if keeping the old "sub" makes any sense.
A temporary resting place, while the basement construction continues - Houston, we have a scale problem:

It looks massive in that corner. The wife is going to kill you. Try the sub with and without your smaller sub. You may see a need for the midbass with music. You won't need it for HT. So how does it sound? Rattle anything in the room? Does it overpower your system?

 

[mkossler]

First Impressions

Well, I hooked up the 20-39PCi and calibrated it, then took the Telarc 5.1 DTS Sampler for a spin. How did it do? In a word, phenomenally.

I used the Yamaha YPAO to "calibrate", adjusting for the well-known crossover and distance bugs. I placed the sub where the previous box had been, no options for "placement by crawling around" in the living room. It turns out that placement of the 20-39PCi in a room this size (18x15x8.5) is less than critical.

It doesn't overpower my other system components at all, but that is not to say it does not add tremendous power to the listening experience. I was concerned about the SVS' ability to provide the response I was seeking in a less-than ideal space that has two large openings to adjoining rooms. I needn't have worried. Not only was the sub sufficient to fill the room, it was sufficient for the entire first floor of the house! I'm talking visceral, feel-it-in-the-chest bass - anywhere on the first floor. During the Jurrasic Lunch demo, I half expected to see Matrix-style ripples radiating from the space where T Rex appeared to stomp towards his snack. The sense of compression was that real.

What surprised me was that the SVS has a Dr. Jekyll counterpart to its home theater Mr. Hyde. The musical scores included on the sampler seemed to have a clarity in the mid-range from my front ARs that I had not heard before, and the lower range from the sub was wonderfully musical, not even a hint of latency or sloppiness. Anyone who calls this product a home theater-only solution, or a "one-note" sub, has clearly not experienced its performance in person.

Without exaggeration, the SVS sub has utterly transformed my listening experience, even in an audio-challenged room like my living room. I am that much more excited to hear what it will sound like in the completed basement HT, in a room with proper acoustics.

One thing's for sure - it's a damned good thing I'm putting this thing in a big hole in the ground, because right now I can mix & shake my neighbors' martinis with my remote control

Cheers,
Matty K

 

[mulester7]

.....great report, Mkossler....I know what you mean about how amazingly low the cylinders can get on DVD's, and turn right around and be musically accurate and wonderfully supportive to CD's....SVS don't play....I remember reading here, that some have the SVS front-firing 10 inch box subs....ahem.......