HEAVEN.........

For those that are not sure why I am excited about a new sub-woofer... Here is a picture I found online for a size reference... 
 

 
 
 
Ours should be here Friday...

MSim
I hope you live out in the country with sub-woofer like that, if not you better live next door to deaf people.

Lol, that's not as bad as living next to a Bass player!!! :P 
Hay AB, did you consider just going with a projector setup at that size? You can get some really nice setups nowadays.

GG, Afterburner - that sub is enormous!
Lol, I like the deal they have on the subs right now, get +1 for only $1,800 - I'm reminded a quote from the movie "Contact".
 
~Fus

Very nice system AB!

Rotflmao @ that sub!

I recently picked up a used SVS PB10-NSD for $180 thinking it would be "good enough", and "not that big". First movie I watched was Hurt Locker and it blew me away.....the deepest, flattest, most amazing bass ever produced in my living room. Even my girlfriend who gave me quite the look when she saw how big it was could not believe how awesome the sub performed.

My system.

60" LG Plasma
Yamaha Aventage 1050 (AV)
Energy CF-50 (Front L/R)
Energy CC-10 (Center)
Energy CB -10 (Surround L/R)

I plan on adding 2 more speakers in the ceiling and enabling Dolby Atmos on the receiver eventually.

Nice setup. An epik empire anchors my system, and I recently upgraded to the SVS ultra tower package. It is fantastic for the price and blows my Polk rti-a9 system away.


http://www.svsound.com/sy...tower-surround-package

If my empire ever dies, I'll get a couple SVS subs to replace it. (Multi subs is about flattening the frequency response, not loudness). Their shop is less than an hour from me and they let me hear and pick up my speakers directly from them.

I'm also running an onkyo tx-nr809 and an emotiva xpa-5.

For TV , theyll have to pry my 65" (ST60 model) Panasonic plasma from my cold, dead hands. For blu ray I'm running an oppo bdp103.


Plans are in the works for ultra high def and height speakers (SVS primr satellites), but not until both become more prolific and not before a TV technology challenges plasma picture quality for a reasonable price.

Justin

I would eventually like to get one of these with my employee discount.  Unfortunately, they have been discontinued and I don't know if there are any available.  Not to mention that I don't have the money.
 
http://www.revelspeakers....~/product/rhythm2.html

ARMYguy
I recently moved into the house i built and built a nice theater in it. I got a Sony X910c 75 inch 4k TV and the upscale on it is insanely good. The only negative is i could have bought 6 titan x's for the price of the tv....  worth it though !

Nice choice!
 
We build/add on to our HT system whenever possible. It is a lot less painful to add speakers one year and an amp the next. We went two year with no update this last time because we wanted the 4k tv's pricing to come down and wait for the HDCP 2.2 top be the standard. 
 
 

Tweaked
I would eventually like to get one of these with my employee discount.  Unfortunately, they have been discontinued and I don't know if there are any available.  Not to mention that I don't have the money.
 
http://www.revelspeakers....~/product/rhythm2.html

Nice! Check out this review of that $10k monster... http://www.audioholics.com/subwoofer-reviews/revel-rhythm2 
 
And I quote.. "The SVS PB13-Ultra we reviewed costs 1/5 the price and we measured clean output levels of up to 117.5 dB earning our Extreme Bassaholic rating, but it lacks the sophisticated EQ system found on the Revel. However, you could easily purchase four SVS PB13-Ultra subs to get the ultimate in bass output, extension and smoothness to all listening seats requiring little to NO EQ at all, and still pocket $2k.  "/quote
 
Could you imagine for of them! Goodness...

Afterburner
 

Tweaked
I would eventually like to get one of these with my employee discount.  Unfortunately, they have been discontinued and I don't know if there are any available.  Not to mention that I don't have the money.
 
http://www.revelspeakers....~/product/rhythm2.html

Nice! Check out this review of that $10k monster... http://www.audioholics.com/subwoofer-reviews/revel-rhythm2 
 
And I quote.. "The SVS PB13-Ultra we reviewed costs 1/5 the price and we measured clean output levels of up to 117.5 dB earning our Extreme Bassaholic rating, but it lacks the sophisticated EQ system found on the Revel. However, you could easily purchase four SVS PB13-Ultra subs to get the ultimate in bass output, extension and smoothness to all listening seats requiring little to NO EQ at all, and still pocket $2k.  "/quote
 
Could you imagine for of them! Goodness...

With my employee discount, I wouldn't be paying anywhere near that price, which makes it MUCH more appealing.

Tweaked
 
 
With my employee discount, I wouldn't be paying anywhere near that price, which makes it MUCH more appealing.

Absolutely! I miss those times when I could pick up a product at a discount, and or get an opportunity for a "Blemished" one for nearly no $$...
 

clo007
I would have went with a Sunfire XTEQ sub. Less than 12"x12"x12" cube
http://www.sunfire.com/XTEQ10.asp
 
I remember when the Sunfire Truesub first came out back in 1996 I think it was. It was so sweet. I could not afford the $1200 price tag at the time and went with a Mirage BPS-150. I still have it today and it is rock solid after 19 years.

 
Very nice sub. It just simply cannot get to the Hz I am looking for.
 
As a way to describe what I am speaking to...
 
Take any "Impact" scene form a movie. Say a car going around a corner and hits an item (Trash can, building, another car) and keeps going. We all "Hear" the impact. What this Sub does is produce the "Feel" that impact has (If recorded into the scene as true audio). As a result, not only will I hear what we all hear with much more headroom, we fell the concussion of air the sub produces to give that life like impact feeling. 
 
As I understand it... Most subs are built for 22hz and above because the majority of the scientific world believes the human ear cannot really "Hear" below 20hz. There are some claims to hearing lower of course.
 
A quick example... Earthquakes are said to be around 10-15hz. We do not hear the earthquakes, we hear the damage being made. 
 
And as such... Many "Sound" engineers have synthetically produced sounds for us to think we are hearing awesomeness in a movie. However many of today's recordings now afford truer sound fields with these synthetically produced sounds. Allowing us to enjoy closer to real life sounds from a movie or our music.
 
And I am simply taking advantage of this with the Sub. I already have with my mid's and hi's.
 
And for a little fun, like our car audio systems, this is what crazy/going to far can look like... LOL!!
 

agent8
I would think a common sub with some well placed bass shakers would do the same effect much cheaper... I use them in my seating areas and as a test, I turned off my 2 subs and had some people over. They all wanted to know about my subwoofer. 

Of course one could! I have owned my share of "Bass Shakers"... But then I would lose the other features with this sub like... Music! 
 
I am certainly not suggesting anyone should like our decision. It is what we chose and cannot wait to play with it. I am just offering parts of our thought process. This is two years in the making for us. We have listened to HSU's, Seatons and many others in homes and HT stores. 
 
Bottom line for me, I wanted to build my own because I did not like the premium cost for the $3200 price for the sub I actually wanted. Once I priced out building my own, I decided the good compromise for now would be a pair of PB13-Ultras. So we purchased one to get started, in order to make sure the right decision was made.
 
After all, tell me how many speaker company's allow you a 45 day test and if you are not fully satisfied they pay to ship it back and give you a full refund?  

Afterburner

Tweaked
 
 
With my employee discount, I wouldn't be paying anywhere near that price, which makes it MUCH more appealing.

Absolutely! I miss those times when I could pick up a product at a discount, and or get an opportunity for a "Blemished" one for nearly no $$...
 

clo007
I would have went with a Sunfire XTEQ sub. Less than 12"x12"x12" cube
http://www.sunfire.com/XTEQ10.asp
 
I remember when the Sunfire Truesub first came out back in 1996 I think it was. It was so sweet. I could not afford the $1200 price tag at the time and went with a Mirage BPS-150. I still have it today and it is rock solid after 19 years.

 
Very nice sub. It just simply cannot get to the Hz I am looking for.
 
As a way to describe what I am speaking to...
 
Take any "Impact" scene form a movie. Say a car going around a corner and hits an item (Trash can, building, another car) and keeps going. We all "Hear" the impact. What this Sub does is produce the "Feel" that impact has (If recorded into the scene as true audio). As a result, not only will I hear what we all hear with much more headroom, we fell the concussion of air the sub produces to give that life like impact feeling. 
 
As I understand it... Most subs are built for 22hz and above because the majority of the scientific world believes the human ear cannot really "Hear" below 20hz. There are some claims to hearing lower of course.
 
A quick example... Earthquakes are said to be around 10-15hz. We do not hear the earthquakes, we hear the damage being made. 
 
And as such... Many "Sound" engineers have synthetically produced sounds for us to think we are hearing awesomeness in a movie. However many of today's recordings now afford truer sound fields with these synthetically produced sounds. Allowing us to enjoy closer to real life sounds from a movie or our music.
 
And I am simply taking advantage of this with the Sub. I already have with my mid's and hi's.
 
And for a little fun, like our car audio systems, this is what crazy/going to far can look like... LOL!!
 

I know what you mean. The sub you got is impressive. Going down to 16 hertz is nice. And I do know what you mean about feeling the impact. I never hard of SVS but I have been out of the audiophile/home theater game for so long, hence my reference to the Sunfire TrueSub from 1996. Looks like SVS is on par with Sunfire. I just know at the time, no one in the market had created a sub like Sunfire. Less than 1 cubic foot sub, down to 18hz with peak power over 2500watts. I also think at the time it was one of the first subs to use the diaphragm sub with cone excursion made to extend to 3".
 
Needless to say, that SVS sub you picked up is going to be awesome. This thread just brought up old memories of my home theater/audiophile phase.

My .02 cents on this, till i see the finish product 

 
 

Afterburner
I updated the first post to... 
 
So as of Nov 1st 2015 the HT/Audio system is...

Sony 65X850C 
Onkyo TX-NR809 (AV) (Will run Center and Front Hi) 
SVS PB13-Ultra 
Emotiva XPA-5 (Will run Two front, two surround, 1/2 of second set of surround)
Emotiva XPA-5 (Will run other 1/2 of second set of surround, all Four Height Atmos/DTX-X/3D speakers)
polkaudio RTi12 (2) (Fronts)
polkaudio CSi5 (Center)
polkaudio RTi4 (4) (Surrounds)
"Undetermined" (2) Front Hi 
"Undetermined" (4) Hi Dolby Atmos/DTS-X/3D Audio
 
And as of this moment we are considering getting the Marantz S6010 to replace the Onkyo...

Definitely get the Marantz.  I have the SR7008 and love it.

Just ordered three Five pairs of 

Polk Audio RC85i