new sub advice
Hello Rythmik owners, and makers
During my quest to replace my old little B&W ASW2500 sub (10inch sealed) I discovered a lot of new brands, including Rythmik.
I'm 99% sure I'll go with this brand, I have not read a single post of someone on the interweb talking bad about it.
The only downside is that I'm living in Europe, which dramatically increases the cost due to overseas shipping and taxes.
My room dimensions are 20 x 16.5 x 9 = 2880cuft, can be closed off, wooden floor on concrete, some curtains.
Use: Music/HT 40/60
I don't listen to reference levels. Most of the time the Marantz AV7005 volume is, with audyssey enabled, -40 with wife present, -30 without , without Audyssey it's -35 and -25 for same volume.
My main speakers are B&W Nautilus 802 (center is HTM1 for HT). Until now I did not care about using a subwoofer for playing music, but after reading subwoofer reviews and threads it might make a huge difference.
I even played movies for a while without sub when my ASW2500 had a broken on/off button, it wasn't too much of a difference than with the little B&W sub haha.
But now I'd like bass that goes deeper than 20hz, that you start to feel instead of hear.
I've never made any measurements yet, but I'm planning to buy a minidsp umik-1 and starting with REW.
I have a shortlist to choose from based on price (max $1900) and max heigt (150inch screen is 25inch above floor). Included is the end price I'll be paying:
FVX12 ($1460): maybe enough for my needs, and save a few 100 bucks
E15 ($1900): compact, it has XLR, probably perfect for music, can it fill the room HT wise?
FVX15 ($1850): starting to get huge, WAF 0.01, would just fit under my screen (1 inch free space), it's louder, but as low as the E15?
FV15HP ($2240) is just too expensive...
If I had to choose between them now I would take the E15, just to look at it and say, that's 15inch baby! But can it fill the room when I watch the next Transformers?
PS: when people talk about E15 and E15HP, it is the same model? On the Rythmik site they talk about E15, but I read a lot E15HP.
E15HP2 is the one with the HX1000 amp upgrade