NXG NX-BAS-500 back in stock

There is something to be said about authorized dealers. However, Radio Shack sells these as a third party vendor, though they charge state sales tax, and should an issue arise I'd have to ship the sub out of state at my expense. As opposed to having one of my local shacks handling the issue sans shipping. On the other hand I ordered a Y adapter and a RCA cable w/o shipping as that was included in the same order.


I note Proadvanyage listed 44 in stock and that number remains the same, so they aren't exactly flying off the shelves. They also provide faint information save the model number w/very basic of descriptions. I wondered if this was an outlet of returns, for whatever reasons, that apparently functioned. I don't know how they ended up w/these, nor intend to cast aspersions. They claim 100% satisfaction, list no warranty claim that I can find, and provide a link-less addy for NXG technology website.


As far as the shack is concerned a two year warranty in this price range seems more than sufficient. As well I'd rather be able to ship at my expense, 1-2 years down the road, than not should the amp crapout on me. I presume this second round/reload is the same sub. I'm going to integrate it w/my oddball speaker arrangement that includes one F-10 Klipsch wired as a center and a SVS SB-1000. Right now the mains are set at 100 w/SB going up to 120 for a little crossover boost.


A couple of things in particular that I found interesting about Jim's review was the sensitivity of the auto on function and the Hz setting. "... it doesn't come out of standby easily enough, and it goes back into it too quickly. For most of the review I had to use On instead of Auto because it kept going in and out too frequently. Very annoying. I also found 60Hz a better crossover setting than my normal 80Hz because some male voices would occasionally come across as a bit thick on the higher setting."


I'm going to try and use the auto on as a gauge of sorts betwixt various CD and FM/CD. As it stands w/current setting I need a -49 to bring the SB out of standby on my FM jazz station. I'll try the NXG at 60 Hz and see how that flies. Though I rarely watch movies, don't incorporate the LFE, perhaps this ported sub w/500 watt dynamic/(continuous) power will find a role if nothing else as a movie anchor.


ETA: The Klipsch F-30, Def Tec BP-8 to a much less degree if any, overshadow the sealed sub in movie mode. Three hundred watts sealed within this spacious surrounding just doesn't have the legs to keep up w/4-8" woofers. That's not a bad thing as I currently do not use any of the speakers to watch movies. I have a spare F-10 being used as half of a stand. Maybe I could combine it, w/small amp, and the ported NXG as full-time telly/cinema sound.


Speaking of an amp what's the odds, warranty notwithstanding, that the sub's amp is 8 or 4 ohms? If so wouldn't I be able to splice one or both of the F-10 w/NXG as the TV audio package? I'm happy enough w/music end as it is now though it wouldn't be a loss to lose the single F-10 masquerading as a center, then combined in parallel w/other F-10, if the sub amp was 4 ohm. I'm sure it might not be practical as I can see a potential to separately adjust volume of F-10 compared to the sub. The single 6" woofer w/horn of each F-10 certainly doesn't require much power and that would be far better than the OEM speaker.

Easy Jim as it was merely a pun on my part. A little tongue-in-cheek humour not meant to be taken at face value. You had joked previously, though it's been a few months ago, in the same vein.

Anywho, just for sheets n grins.


12/9/13

"Yea, I think NXG owes me some money; that review seemed to cause a run on them, depleting their stock far sooner than they had projected."




So, moving along & my apologies for the unwittingly implied misunderstanding, I'm looking forward to the little ported sub. Also, I'm hoping to use the short cycle auto-on as a Hz gauge of sorts. One of the issues I perceived w/SB-1000 is the coming out of standby lasts a good fifteen minutes, 16:50, w/o additional signal. In order to bring it out of standby on FM at low volume I had to boost the sub on the AVR. Of course differing stations have varying broadcast power. A station that I listen to very little, that's easily 50 miles away, will fire up auto on in a heartbeat. Whilst the college station half the distance, playing syndicated Bob Parlocha evenings/early AM, requires a little massaging.


I was at +3db on the sub and have since dropped that 0 only to settle on +1. Where once it would light up at -52 it usually takes -49 though the other evening I left it on -50, on the station I generally listen, and it came on eventually. I like the idea of a much shorter auto-on window. For starters during the break-in I'm going to set the C/O at 120 the same as the SB in the corner. Except the ported will be nine feet away from it and five feet closer to me albeit w/o the corner boost.


Although reviewed as a shaker that wouldn't allow loose material to remain on top I'm confident that several CD on the poop deck will remain as long as they are buffered as is by one of the F-30 towers weighing in at sixty lbs. I've been looking for a foot n-half stand for a while anyway as it's the last speaker floor bound. I'm also a wee bit curious how close the two subs will be calibrated to the Hz setting. After a while I'll try crossing the ported at 60.


I also wish to note that I went back to the Pro site and saw that indeed they also had a link to NXG along w/addy posted. I missed that earlier.

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I like the NXG-500 a lot. If I had the room I might have two instead of being paired w/SVS SB-1000. Practically never watching Blu-ray and hardly any plain Jane DVD I can only comment on jazz/big band/crooners at moderate to spirited levels. The little SVS works on the small table shoved into the corner that wouldn't accommodate much larger. I could detect a ticking noise in the NXG that sounded quite similar to a skip in a record. This happened as the sub had yet to auto power on almost in a sonar/pinging seeking mode. I could only detect this due to low volume.


It also required about 7db more gain to auto-power on over the SVS. For a while that was nice as I could listen to Mainstream Jazz on FM at night w/o powering up the NXG. Especially w/SVS being close at my feet. However the 7db differential proved to be too much during the daytime. I rarely play the music loud, yet was being forced into that corner. I ended up leaving the amp powered up all the time. If I could've fine tuned to a 3 or even 4db difference it would've been handy. I haven't checked lately it might have bridged the gap a mite over time.


The performance per price is high & I would heartily recommend a pair for budget bass.