Joined
·
2,498 Posts
Hello All,
My neighbor has recently been diving into home theater with both feet and is looking for a new sub system. He has heard my dual MFW-15's and likes them but he is sold on SVS for a couple of reasons. Those are really not pertinent to the question at hand. He is working with a roughly $2k budget and a 3000 ft^3 room. He is going with the MTS 5.x system and is debating between running dual PB12-Plus (new version, 12.4 which I haven't heard but the initial reports are all positive) or a single PB13 Ultra (which I have heard and think is awesome). His house is like mine, an open concept for the most part, but a little more, geometric in design for lack of a better word. Mine is based off of a great room, his flows from the living room around a corner into the dining area/kitchen and stairway, so while it is not enclosed the bend makes me wonder if it will cause a slightly reduce bass leak than if it were just open. He asked me for what I would prefer as he knows I have duals and Jack from SVS told him that the PB12+ x 2 will have more headroom which may benefit him. Makes sense but the Ultra would cost him a little less and is, well, an Ultra. Duals also help with the FR across the room but his wife is given him the "FINE" answer AKA "Why the He!! are we spending so much money on a stereo and these boxes are too big". He is mainly into movies and gaming as well as some classic rock music but from what I gathered it would be 40% TV/35% movies/15% gaming/10% music. I think he is hoping the single Ultra will be as good as/better than the dual PB12 Pluses even though physics would seem to dictate otherwise.
So, lets see what people here think, if it were you would you rather have one "super-sub" or two "good" subs?
My neighbor has recently been diving into home theater with both feet and is looking for a new sub system. He has heard my dual MFW-15's and likes them but he is sold on SVS for a couple of reasons. Those are really not pertinent to the question at hand. He is working with a roughly $2k budget and a 3000 ft^3 room. He is going with the MTS 5.x system and is debating between running dual PB12-Plus (new version, 12.4 which I haven't heard but the initial reports are all positive) or a single PB13 Ultra (which I have heard and think is awesome). His house is like mine, an open concept for the most part, but a little more, geometric in design for lack of a better word. Mine is based off of a great room, his flows from the living room around a corner into the dining area/kitchen and stairway, so while it is not enclosed the bend makes me wonder if it will cause a slightly reduce bass leak than if it were just open. He asked me for what I would prefer as he knows I have duals and Jack from SVS told him that the PB12+ x 2 will have more headroom which may benefit him. Makes sense but the Ultra would cost him a little less and is, well, an Ultra. Duals also help with the FR across the room but his wife is given him the "FINE" answer AKA "Why the He!! are we spending so much money on a stereo and these boxes are too big". He is mainly into movies and gaming as well as some classic rock music but from what I gathered it would be 40% TV/35% movies/15% gaming/10% music. I think he is hoping the single Ultra will be as good as/better than the dual PB12 Pluses even though physics would seem to dictate otherwise.
So, lets see what people here think, if it were you would you rather have one "super-sub" or two "good" subs?