MY living room HT

[KlipschHead281]

well that sucks, hopefully you can figure something out.

From what I'm hearing (calls and emails) the subwoofer is performing to spec, the issue might be my perception of what to expect from such a small sub.

I own 2 MFW-15's so I need to flush my expectations and run through the test tones and material again.

 

[KlipschHead281]

Ok, removed the UFW-10 sub from the bedroom home theater and implanted it into my computer system in my home office. What it didn't do for my home theater it more than makes up for on my computer 2.1 system, holy crap it sounds fantastic! No cutting out, just fantastic bass!

The system consists of the following:

Late '08 Mac Pro (dual quad 2.8 Xeons, 16gigs memory) as media source
Radio Shack Mixer, outputs to receiver and two transmitters, one FM and the other AM. (FCC legal limit)
Marantz 4270 Quad Receiver (75watts per channel) don't let that number fool you, this is one potent receiver.
AV123 X-LS mains (how can such small speakers sound so damn good?!?)
AV123 UFW-10 with Dayton SA240-B amp (I know, duh)

I'll post pics when I can, right now it's hodge podged together and looks like crap but the sound is incredible. I have my dual Klipsch Pro-Media systems unplugged now.

I have plugged the Klipsch KSW-300 into the bedroom home theater and there just isn't a fair comparison to it and the UFW, it just kicks its arse. If I could only get the phasing to sound right. I'm going to play with placement and see, this sub hits hard in every seen in WOTW and Subsonic makes everything on the shelves fall off so it's worth the effort getting the phase right.

I digress, the UFW isn't a bad sub, it just doesn't have the size to hit as hard as I need since I'm spoiled by 2 MFW's. I seriously doubt a more potent amp will help, this SA240-B is really rocking this thing in the 2.1 system.

I made a video of the UFW-10 during testing. I have been playing this thing hard for 3 hours with no cutoff or distortion. The video may sound a bit distorted but thats because my digital camera was not meant to try and capture audio like this. I think the video will convince you the Dayton is the right choice.

I used the Crystal Method "Tweekend" and if that doesn't test the nuts of a subwoofer I don't know what will.

Here is a link to the video UFW-10Subwoofer Test, by the way, the digital camera does a pretty good job picking up the bass, but it does break up a few times and distort (not the sub).

 

[Anthar]

whoa! those speakers!! huge that center really kicks A$$!!!!!

 

[KlipschHead281]

whoa! those speakers!! huge that center really kicks A$$!!!!!

Anthar,

Thanks, they sound incredible.

 

[KlipschHead281]

Whoops sorry for the late reply.

The Emotiva amps are fantastic. For your RF-82's though im not sure how much difference it would make since they are very very effecient. Some models like the RF-7's and RF-83's have low impedence drops and in that case a external amp would be a great choice. But there are still a few owners with RF-82's and the Emotiva amps that really enjoy the combo, so it really just depends on your needs if ya know what i mean.

bigred7078,

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