Official Chase Home Theater Owners Thread - Page 12

Still waiting. 7 full days since I ordered and absolutely nothing about my order has changed. It's still "pending" which means it hasn't even been processed yet.

A smart well run business will not charge your card till it ships (only authorize). Should go from pending to shipped when ready and Hopefully that is what the wait is all about.
Chris

I agree, my point is I can't believe a full 7 days have passed and other than me placing the order, nothing has changed. With the subs already made I would have thought 2-3 days max till they were out the door and on their way to my place.

This wait is an interesting thing, rather than being frustrated and wanting to cancel my order I am seriously considering ordering 2 more so I don't have to wait till June to get my second pair. I have a feeling ultimately I will end up with 4 18.2's so why not just add the additional 2 to the order, save $200 in shipping and get them all at the same time?

If that's what you know you're going to do and the wallet can swing it.......Why Not. Especially if you can save that much on shipping. I say jump on it because I know how anxious I am when I want something. I want it then and there. The wife gets on me about that but I can't help it. I will actually leave one place which tells me I have to wait a couple days to get something and may a good deal more for the item at the next place because I can have it that day.

SeaNile
I would call and get a general feel for where they are now on the first two. If everything works out then it souds like a great idea. Just remember that Excitement is Common Senses worse enemy and the only thing worse than getting Screwed on two subs is getting F-cked on 4 subs.
Chris

LOL

I've been in constant contact with Craig and feel confident in everything. It's just the timeline that is frustrating.

I would rather have the 4 subs as it would be more stable! Makes a nice and bigger surface.

Basically what was said, front firing new builder, dual opposed old builder, both really nice. Waiting sucks but I do it all the time!

I ordered right from the site with the pics being dual front firing. I'll use two up from and place the JTR12LF's on them and would put other two at approximately the same place as my rear surrounds. Might be able to use the rear subs as stand for the surrounds.

There isn't a ton of options for placement. The front 2 I would need to use as stands for the front L&R and IF there were two more subs I would only be able to put them where my rears are.

There isn't a ton of options for placement.[/quote]


I am sure you will solve any limited placement option problems by having 4 double front firing 18" inch sealed subwoofers.
My guess is anywhere you put them you will have great bass if not something is wrong
Chris

MK
How do you think the drivers in the 18.2 compare to the new Dayton Audio 18" driver that the DIY community are using?
These 18.2 have a damn good price on them.
Edited by countryWV - 1/5/13 at 10:26am

I'll wait till by Caps sell before ordering more subs from CHT. It's only a few more days till I box up the Caps and they head to the basement. They will be of no use to me anymore.

I would llisten to them as a comparison just for shiz 'n giggles, a/b type deal.

Order is confirmed!

I am sure you will solve any limited placement option problems by having 4 double front firing 18" inch sealed subwoofers.
My guess is anywhere you put them you will have great bass if not something is wrong
Chris
MK
How do you think the drivers in the 18.2 compare to the new Dayton Audio 18" driver that the DIY community are using?
These 18.2 have a damn good price on them.[/quote]

Just my guess but they look very close to one another as specs are concerned. I never experienced the huge rolloff people talk about with my CHT subs. They rolloff just as much as my eD 190v2's and both of those rolloff a bit more than my 13av's but nothing crazy. Most sealed subs require a low shelf of some type of boost under 20hz besides just room gain so they feel like ported subs down low. This is why power and displacement matter because you need more of it but the trade off is you get real low.

I'm out of town till late Wednesday night but hopefully the subs will be delivered by Friday at the latest. Friday night and the weekend should be a lot of fun.

Time to figure out what demo material I have in my collection.

Easy, WOTW, FOTP, TIH, LOTR:FOTR, etc....

John I should have some time Sunday if you want to mess around. I can bring my "tools" aka demo discs and Art of flight, etc.

or you could also grab superleo's reference disc(s) that features scenes from all of the above.
http://www.avsforum.com/t/1391873/reference-blu-ray-demo-disc-bd9-dvd-dl-media-bd50

I own those discs and prefer my blurays. To me the blurays sound better at reference(speakers).

That should work! Hope to get the subs running as soon as they come so I can them warmed up for you.

I'll let you know when they show up.

Subs are coming tomorrow. I'll have them hooked up and playing at low volumes for a few hours to warm up before seeing what they can do. I'll know by Sunday night if 2 more will be ordered.

Awesome! I should have some of the parts in for my mains build either tomorrow or Monday too. I'll be making some sawdust on Saturday morning.

Got my subs today! Gotta them hooked, playing quietly and warming up. I ran Audussey and its jacked up!! Has fronts at -12, rears at -4 and sub at -15 in addition to having the Triple 12LFs as full range speakers.

If your subwoofer channel (trim) level ended up at -15, then you need to turn the gain (volume) on the subwoofer amp down. Shoot for adjusting the gain such that Audyssey ends up with a number closer to zero for the subwoofer channel level on the receiver.

Congrats Seanile I'll be waiting on your impressions.I can't decide 2 or 4 lol

John - just replied to your email. Leave it alone for now, we will get it fixed when I come by.

Yea, I figured for now they are fine. They need to get warmed up and broken in a bit before I care about them really being dialed in. Ran Audyssey more out of curiosity than anything else.

Must be CHT delivery day. Just got my replacement PRO10 delivered via Fedex. (3 got delivered last Friday via R&L, but one had a defective compression driver and Craig sent me a replacement).

Love my 18.2's so much I am looking to add more subs to my system. Posted this in the classifieds but figured I would try here as well.

Just throwing it out there. I'd like to add 4 18.1 subs to my system. if anyone out there happens to have 4 CHT SS 18.1 subs let me know.

Can't go with the 18.2's due to space limitations.

Loving my subs so far. Still not used to adjusting the level of the subs for different recordings, etc. I guess for the most true representation of the recording everything should be level matched? If that is how you do it I am in the like the sub hot category.

Andrew was kind enough to come over again and aside from talking me into another amp and 4 more subs he adjusted everything and had Audyssey do it's thing. Sounds really good and is a huge improvement from what I had before. No fault of my components, speakers or subs but I really want to feel like I am at a concert when I watch concert DVD's. Looks like 4 more subs will be ordered soon. Due to space I will be going with 4 of the SS-18.1 passive subs. Looks like 4 more subs, another Crest CC4000 and probably move up to a Denon 4311 so I can adjust the audio settings on the fly.

This is still Latin to me but here is a snapshot of my subs thanks to Andrew. Looks like flat to about 14hz? After the additional subs I will toy with the idea of adding an EQ. That will also give me some time to figure out what an EQ will do for me!

^ Just to clarify those lines are 1 18.2 vs. 2 18.2's. You can see it smoothed response quite a bit up top and of course added a full 6db of output across. If you flattened out the midrange with some EQ you would actually be flat quite a bit lower. There is plenty of usable extension down low there.

John - In your room I think adding a couple more sub near field will make a pretty big difference. If by some means still not enough, we'll figure it out. For now just get the old equipment sold and we'll go from there.