SVS 25-31 PC Plus vs. DIY Sub

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Solid walls make a big difference.

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Music Joe wrote: »

My uneducated guess is, the upper floor is more like a typical box, playing in sympathy to the sub on all 6 sides, whereas basements tend to have 5 very solid sides plus a sturdier roof too.It should take some serious power to get a basement singing.

Probably the case.

Although it takes quite a bit of power to fill up my basement, I have my sub set flat, so it's not running out of power or anything.

The sub sounds really good in the basement.

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The dreaded Bose 901's have had problems in rooms without solid walls. The reflexions were messed up if the walls were not solid.

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engtaz wrote: »

Solid walls make a big difference.

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Maybe this is why Levinson has a concrete bunker for a listening room, according to a high end dealer ?

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engtaz wrote: »

The dreaded Bose 901's have had problems in rooms without solid walls. The reflexions were messed up if the walls were not solid.

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Interesting - my Def Techs are bipolar; although they are not exactly Bose 901s, they do depend on room acoustics...

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when I said messed up, I meant there absorbed instead of reflexed off the walls.
Kind of mushy.
Does that make since? (long day)

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