Carp's basement hide-out - Page 7

Thanks Claude,

the only negative to having both subs in the same corner to my ears is that the frequency response isn't great in some of the seats other than the main LP. Here is the freq response in the main LP:




I know that nasty dip at 50hz looks bad, but I really can't tell. Here is the response from the right front corner and left front corner, you can tell they compliment each other pretty well.



The response is flatter running the subs separated, but it doesn't matter to me because I honestly can't tell the difference, that and I use the SMS-1 to play with the freq response all the time anyway.

As far as locating the subs, I'm lucky in this room. The bass isn't localized all the way up to a 150hz crossover. If I read that about someome else's room I would call BS but I'm telling you, in here you can't tell.

New Noesis setup:

Drive way is steeper than this looks, it was quite treacherous getting them up the glacier and into the garage.




Out with the old, in with the new yet again.




Beautiful triplets.





Before stands arrived:




With stands:

No, I have no such skills. I got them from JTR as well.

thanks for the compliments guys!

Kevin, didn't I see you post that you are going to have to buy some Noesis? Well, it may not have been worded that way... but that's what you were thinking - right?

Ohhh Huntington Beach - birthplace of Slayer if I remember right. \m/

Haha, a friend and avs member Archaea was over here the other night and I joked to him that I might finally paint or change them out not because it bothers me but because all the suggestions on the forum that I need to do it.

It's weird that I don't notice them and they don't bother me, but yeah I do have that on the list of things I want to eventually take care of. A few years ago I had the basement refinished and if I had it to do over again I would have had all the outlets/plates removed.

I've had the dual opposed Dayton's in my room for the past few days so it's been a lot of fun comparing the 2 and last night I had the KC boys over, 6 of us I believe, and we tested the the subs back and forth. Sound quality to me is almost identical, I'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between the Submersive and the Dayton. Peak output is also close with an edge to the Dayton, it was neck and neck all night until the x men first class beach/shot in the back scene. For the first time I heard bad sounds from the Submersive on that scene. I didn't even know that was possible...

Then we ran the Dayton and it didn't have any bad sounds and had an obvious output advantage since it wasn't compressing like the Submersive.

We went CRAZY with the Noesis last night. My pioneer goes to +12 over reference and I went there a few times, we could have gone much louder since the individual speaker volume is set at -12 (ranges from -12 to +12) but it was already dangerous where we were.

The Noesis laughed at that volume. I don't know what the limit is on these speakers, but I'm never going to find it. There wasn't a trace of air coming out of the ports even at +12. I can't imagine running these with an amp.


For the x-men scene the master volume was 5 under reference with the subs set to 12 db hot.

I'm kind of hesitant to post the comparison since I'm selling a Submersive, but oh well.

I'm impressed with both subs. I'm impressed with the Dayton's for the obvious reason of how cheap they are, but I'm also impressed that a Submersive can go toe to toe with a sub this large and not get knocked out (well, more like knocked down) until the 12 round.

I have a TON of curves saved, I'm not sure this is the right one. I thought the levels were more spot on than this, so Kevin if you see this let me know if this is the wrong comparison.




The SMS-1 was set to no eq for this. Also, I think I'm done with the sms-1. When we took it out of the chain we were getting 8 more db's than before on the same settings (we level matched the subs/speakers again after removing the sms-1). It neutered the crap out of the subs.

Oh, I tripped a breaker for the first time EVER last night. Sucks, I was hoping to not have to worry about having dedicated lines run.

We were at +12 with all 3 subs going over 10 hot though... not sure I'll need to mess with dedicated lines...

Good lord, the gun shots on open range played over reference were insane... and I had ear plugs in!!

Scott Pilgrim vs the world has insane bass.

I ruined part of my carpet trying to clean up my spilled drink. I thought I was using the spray bottle of dog mess cleaner, but I grabbed the bottle that has bleach. Nice. Wife thinks I'm an idiot... she's not wrong.

Guys, we went way more nuts on the alcohol last night. That was a lot of bottles and cans, haha.


Ok, enough random thoughts.

Thanks, I didn't know that actually.

My components are all on a different line, so only the subs were affected.