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A few comments:
1. Since this is just about the only subwoofer comparison I am interested in hearing about, I'm resurrecting this topic in the hopes that someone else has had a chance to compare these since bareyb's excellent review.
2. Disregarding the performance of a single vtf-3 versus (say) a single 20-39 PCi for the moment, I'm frankly quite surprised that hardly anyone has talked about a very simple usability advantage that the vtf-3 would appear to have over cylinder subs (including Hsu's TN subs); namely, for the many people who are interested in eventually having two subs placed in an optimal configuration, it is a heck of a lot easier to stack two 20x15x22 boxes one on top of the other, than it is to stack two 39x16x16 cylinders one on top of the other.
I recall a thread a while back by someone who actually managed to successfully join two of the cs subs together. But really....why? Without even getting into the stability issue of having such a tall structure sitting on a (round) 16x16 base, from a sheer usability standpoint, you're essentially choosing between a 40inch tall sub vs a 78inch tall sub, using the models mentioned above. 78 inches is six and a half feet tall, for crying out loud.
No doubt someone will chime in to say that they have had great success placing two cylinder subs standing side by side, and hence there is no need to be able to stack them vertically. I'm no physicist, but from my layman's eyes, it seems intuitive that (all other things being equal) two subs stacked one on top of the other, with their respective woofers and ports firing in the same directions, should result in the most complimentary wave pattern (i.e. resulting in sound reinforcement), and the least amount of wave cancelation. If someone thinks differently on this issue, I'd love to hear it.
1. Since this is just about the only subwoofer comparison I am interested in hearing about, I'm resurrecting this topic in the hopes that someone else has had a chance to compare these since bareyb's excellent review.
2. Disregarding the performance of a single vtf-3 versus (say) a single 20-39 PCi for the moment, I'm frankly quite surprised that hardly anyone has talked about a very simple usability advantage that the vtf-3 would appear to have over cylinder subs (including Hsu's TN subs); namely, for the many people who are interested in eventually having two subs placed in an optimal configuration, it is a heck of a lot easier to stack two 20x15x22 boxes one on top of the other, than it is to stack two 39x16x16 cylinders one on top of the other.
I recall a thread a while back by someone who actually managed to successfully join two of the cs subs together. But really....why? Without even getting into the stability issue of having such a tall structure sitting on a (round) 16x16 base, from a sheer usability standpoint, you're essentially choosing between a 40inch tall sub vs a 78inch tall sub, using the models mentioned above. 78 inches is six and a half feet tall, for crying out loud.
No doubt someone will chime in to say that they have had great success placing two cylinder subs standing side by side, and hence there is no need to be able to stack them vertically. I'm no physicist, but from my layman's eyes, it seems intuitive that (all other things being equal) two subs stacked one on top of the other, with their respective woofers and ports firing in the same directions, should result in the most complimentary wave pattern (i.e. resulting in sound reinforcement), and the least amount of wave cancelation. If someone thinks differently on this issue, I'd love to hear it.