AZ Home Theater Get Together - April 26, 2008

[robbroy]

Jeffrey,

You had the 2005 Anchor Christmas. Fortunately for me, I've got a couple more in my cellar. Also, yes, it was about 1 to 1.5 dB hot on the sub, but the music Ron selected was particularly bass intensive.

I'm not sure we blew the tweeters or what, but that's something I need to investigate. We had an EQ for all the speakers, and there was some kind of hardware failure (we think the mic). With all the testing, re-calibrating, etc., the tweeters in the rears and the center began to misbehave just before people showed up. I'm going to pull the system apart in the next few days and see what I did to them.

-Robb

[dinotoad]

Robb is a generous host. Thanks for opening your house and sharing with all the sub geeks. This should get you a long ride on the karma bus.

And thanks to Ron from SVS for showing SVS's new Audyssey powered sub Equalization Management box. It was not in my budget but now I guess I am going to have to have one.

It was also nice to meet other people with this common interest.

[jeffreybehr]

Here at MY house is Robb's former, now Warren's, SW, the PB2-Ultra. Don't cry, Robb; we'll take good care of it.



Right now it's making (pink) noise; haven't even balanced it yet. I'll connect it as the LFE woofer and then connect the PC-Us as stereo SWs for the music system. Of course since I have only one system, that's also the theater system. What that means is that the PC-Us will be driven as part of the Left and Right channels and not the LFE channel.

[Matt34]

The one time I catch win of a A/V GTG in Arizona and 1) I find out late, 2) am deployed to Iraq.

Maybe next year.

-Matt

P.S- That SVS EQ system looks really interesting, might of found a replacement for my SMS-1 if it works as good as it's described.

[azjimmy]

Looks good Jeffrey! That sub sounds great, no matter what you throw at it.
I must say that I am green with envy looking at that picture
Jim

[brucemck2]

What's the approximate latency of the SVS Audyssey unit? Put differently, by how much do you have to increase the distance setting on the sub to compensate for the processing time in the Audyssey unit?

If it's a couple of feet I can handle that ... if it's 15 or 20 feet I can't.

[Sonnie]

Sounds like you guys had a wondermous time. Kudos...

[Ed Mullen]

brucemck2 wrote:

What's the approximate latency of the SVS Audyssey unit? Put differently, by how much do you have to increase the distance setting on the sub to compensate for the processing time in the Audyssey unit?

If it's a couple of feet I can handle that ... if it's 15 or 20 feet I can't.

The unit will provide you with the correct subwoofer distance to input into the pre-pro. In my experience it has added about 2 feet to the physical actual distance.

[Ron Stimpson]

Robb/All,

Thanks for hosting yet again Robb. Having a group over is always a lot of work and you did it all in stride. I just showed up with a few goodies ;^)

Those that made it. Thanks. It's the best part of my job, meeting customers and future customers. They tell us what they want, we try to build it and service it such that future meetings are as pleasant as this one. We clearly did have a bit of an issue with the MTS-01 speakers (though the center and MBS-01's the biggest offenders) we are investigating. More of those tweeters have failed than should be the case.

The PB13-Ultra's certainly did acquit themselves well, and having done the A/B part with the AS-EQ1 Audyssey sub EQ about 100 times on Saturday I know much of the refinement we experienced is due to that. Power without control is no power at all, after all. Anyway, our little side project is about a year behind schedule and we've never been more excited by it. Beta testing has started and will conclude with pre-orders when/if we get that far.

Anyway, it was indeed some of the most impressive sound, maybe the best I've heard myself. Frankly Robb's room was a bit of a mess (acoustically speaking!) with the subs just stacked alone. I want dual Ultra subs and the box just like Robb. We'll do the reception again with full latest of everything.

I might even bring some non-adolescent music when the MTS-01 speakers are back in production and the AS-EQ1 is shipping. Those kids like their bass, and I can't argue with it. Gorillaz, Beck, Yello and Kanye West are good for business ;^)

PS I'll send Robb some of the pics my wife/photographer shot, in some cases of people even. We'll get them up here soon as we can.


Ron
SVS