first movie on new speakers

dave shepard

Well I got all the speakers in there place except the rear center and watched our first movie. Boy what a diff. from the rm7200 set There is a whole lot more sound filling the room and has much better highs and mids for some reason there seems to be better lows too. I set the reciever to large front everything else small sub off. I have the fronts running through the sub. Tomarrow I will go and see about changing the csi20 for another 40.

Dave

hank1105

Glad to hear the new sound coming out of your Polks. I would suggest setting the fronts to small once you get a good sub. I agree with getting the CSi40, it really kicks some butt.

Shizelbs

What movie did you watch?

dave shepard

We watched Chicago and enjoyed it, the sound was very full compared to the 7200 set. I sent my wife to CC to exchange the csi20 for there last csi40 that should really fill the back stage as soon as I can find a place to put it, the lay-out of my room is large and very difficult when it comes to doing things in. You have to apperiaciate CC for offering the 12mo. no question up-grade option at least I do. Now I just sit and wait for the sub to arrive.

Dave

dorokusai

Glad to hear it Dave, turn it up!

jkratzer

Awesome setup Dave! Love the RTi70's and CSi40. My wife and I just watched Gladiator in DTS ES this weekend. You got to watch this one with the new speakers if your receiver has DTS ES capability. You will be smiling for a week.

BTW, what sub are you upgrading to?

dave shepard

I'm waiting for the pb2+ to arrive hopefully this week according to Eric at SVS, the wait is killer and am saving some repeat movies for when it arrives. Thanks for the recomandation I will make a point of watching it. My reciever does DTS and will give it a try.


Dave

tschep20

Originally posted by dave shepard
I'm waiting for the pb2+ to arrive hopefully this week according to Eric at SVS, the wait is killer and am saving some repeat movies for when it arrives. Thanks for the recomandation I will make a point of watching it. My reciever does DTS and will give it a try.


Dave

I know what you mean, I've been waiting for my PB2+ to come also. I hope it comes this week. I've been waiting to watch a few movies so i don't have to watch them again once the sub gets here

hank1105

Gladitor DTS 6.1 is awesome, definitely add that to your DVD collection. The "Unleash Hell" scene is awesome for demoing your system.

Dr. Spec

Dave and tschep:

I know the wait is killer, but just be glad SVS had the balls to reject a shipment of enclosures from the vendor because they weren't perfectly finished.

That finish is pretty high tech and extremely durable and also contributes to enclosure damping - but it's a bit of a **** to do right.

Dave: I take it you are 6.1? I agree then to do a 40 in the back. If you were 7.1 two 20's or two 30's would have worked very well.

After the monster arrives, makes sure to sell ALL speakers to small and the XO to 80 Hz. The SVS will easily handle triple duty bass chores without strain.

Calibrate only about 3 dB hot for HT, as the SVS does not need to be run obscenely hot to impress.

Calibrate flat for music. Repeat - FLAT for music. It will blend so well you won't be sure it is even running until you shut it off. This sub is so good on music, its scary. It flat out disappears once properly calibrated and never calls attention to itself with any mid bass boom whatsoever. It just fills out the bottom end with clean, tight, fast, low distortion, impossible to localize quality bass.

This sub has such a split personality. It handles all nuances in music so faithfully and gracefully, and then it proceeds to rip your face off on Titan AE DTS. Amazing.

I highly recommend all ports open for both music and HT. The SQ is very effortless and it breathes easy. Plug a port and it will indeed dig extremely low, but loses a bit of that effortless quality and stuffs up just a bit. I do not recommend two ports plugged for any application, as the sub is quite underported in that tune and overall output suffers. Those drivers need a LOT of vent space.

If you have a big room and/or play very loud, stick with the 25 Hz SS setting if all ports are open. If you have a smaller room and are playing well Reference Level, you might try the 20 or 16 Hz setting. This extends the FR considerably, but the potential to bottom the drivers increases considerably as you drop this setting, so use common sense and caution in the 3/20 or 3/16 tune.

Doc

AreBEe

My RTi38s, Rti28s and CSi40 are coming in tomorrow to join my SVS 25-31PCi. I've been trying to figure out what movie I will watch first for three days. I'll probably just watch short passages from all my favorite demo DVDs until my wife threatens to poison me.

My guess for first full movie will be The Transporter on HBO-HD 5.1 Saturday night. The DVD has pretty decent sound so it shouldn't be too bad. Lot's of bone crunchin'!