Another SW 303 owner checking in. elieb how do you like the quality of the kenwood?

I'm not impressed in the least bit, but I payed 30 bucks so I'm ok with it.

Recently got a vintage McIntosh HT-2 THX sub from the 90s. Dual 12 inch behemoth large enough to double as a coffee table. As this is a passive sub, I plan use a dedicated pro amp (Peavey/QSC) to handle the max 600 watts it can take.

Mac quality from Binghamton:

Cool find.

Hope you aren't my neighbor

Indeed, it will get loud Would have loved to get the rest of the Mac stuff from the estate sale that had the sub, there was a preamp and 6 channel amp from the same era as the HT-2, but the pre was history when I got there and the amp was too pricey. First time I found McIntosh stuff "in the wild", quite neat, and the seller threw in my choice of cables for the sub so I chose the most expensive looking Audioquest banana terminated wires there and was given a pair.

I finished construction of my DIY Dayton Ultimax tonight (save for the grille). It's in ~12 cuft, slot ported, tuned to ~17.5hz. Power is from a Behringer Eurocom AX6220 which, realistically, should put out somewhere around 1500w bridged with the driver's 4ohm load. WinISD models show it hitting 115-117db at the listening position with anechoic extension to ~16.5hz... so possibly ~14-15hz in-room. A quick function test yielded EXTREMELY positive results with a few test scenes (Avengers: Endgame final battle in Atmos on UHD, Independence Day first attack in AC3 on LD) with the HPF set to 20hz (as low as I could go via the Amp DSP's onboard controls) and levels rough-matched by ear. I'll hopefully get it slid into place start to dial everything in with the Behringer PEQ, REW, and Dayton UMM-6 calibration mic sometime tomorrow.

It's not much to look at as-is, but once it's slid into its dormer (front flush with walls on each side and media shelf / projector hush box above) and its grille is contructed/attached, it will basically disappear:



This will be its final location with my old DIY Ascendance Avalanche in ~6 cuft tuned to ~18hz powered by a BASH 300w plate amp still in place:

I've been using this SVS PB-3000 for the last two years. 13" driver, 800 watts RMS.

It's easily enough for this 2500 cu ft room, and it hits very very hard on those LD theatrical surround mixes! I narrowly survived DTS Jurassic Park.

My other speakers are all Revel Concerta2 series (Got the F36 towers, not the F35, and have M16's in the rear), it's just a 5.1 setup.

Excellent subwoofer I’m sure that SVS! A couple of years ago when I replaced my previous sub I was looking at their SB16/PB16 models along with the Arendal 1723 2V & 2S and after much deliberating decided on the 2S sealed version due to its much praised musical performance as I listen to a lot of live concert material on LD/DVD & BD discs. Been absolutely happy with its performance up to now and it integrates perfectly with my existing Focal Aria 7.1 set up in a dedicated room that is just a little smaller than yours perhaps, most likely been just as happy if I’d took the SVS path but the Arendal undercut the SB16 in price at the time.