MFW-15 In Da House! FINALLY!

[Footloose301]

Thats right, Received it today! I get a lot of stuff thru UPS and they usually come around 4-5pm so being as how I used to work for them and I know their schedules, I figured he would be making his Next Day Air business stops before the 10:30am commit time. So, my town being rather small I went down the 2 major roads in the area and found him at 10:00 and picked it up off him.:rocker:

Got it home, pkg still in good condition. Took it out of the box and I couldn't believe my eyes...... One of the most BEAUTIFUL pieces of equipment I've ever seen. The cabinet is by far much better than I had imagined.

Now I hooked it up in place of my HTIB 220watt Onkyo subwoofer.

MUSIC:

Hits pretty deep however it doesn't seem to be able to keep up at higher volumes. The gain is a bit less than 1/2 way. Rock songs sounded good but Hip/Hop-Rap seems as though its missing something. The woofer bottoms out way to easily and becomes distorted.

MOVIES:

This is where the MFW-15 excels. Hits hard, deep, and sound quality is EXCELLENT. I wish I had the extra cash to get 2 of them though. Started out with the Blu-Rays watching RE: Apocalypse, then onto Never Back Down and currently watching I Am Legend.

I came to realize that I need to buy a longer sub cable because the current position of the subwoofer does not allow it to reach its max potential. Walking around my room I noticed it would be MUCH MUCH louder and deeper it different parts of the room.

OVERALL:

I believe the MFW-15 is an excellent bang for the buck. However, In my opinion the woofer should be swapped out for something that has a better excursion because I don't think it can keep up with the amp and cabinet. Nonetheless I am happy with my purchase, perhaps I'll get a 2nd MFW-15 in the near future.

....and before the "THIS THREAD IS WORTHLESS WITHOUT PICS" ranting goes on, here ya go. And yes, this is my bedroom, it is messy, and NO you cannot see any of the wires except when the flash goes off because its much too bright.

[prerich]

What kind of speakers are you running with the new sub? That sub should handle Rap and R&B music easily. Could be the crossover point?

[cravnsn]

As I was checking out your pic’s (nice sub BTW), my co-worker was looking over my shoulder, and said “Hey – that’s a cool looking washer & dryer”

[mdm1699]

Originally Posted by prerich

What kind of speakers are you running with the new sub? That sub should handle Rap and R&B music easily. Could be the crossover point?

I was thinking the same thing. With movies you won't notice the cross-over much since low bass is LFE. Sweet sub anyway. I wonder how it stacks up to this http://hsuresearch.com/products/uls15.html

[Footloose301]

Originally Posted by mdm1699

I was thinking the same thing. With movies you won't notice the cross-over much since low bass is LFE. Sweet sub anyway. I wonder how it stacks up to this http://hsuresearch.com/products/uls15.html

Well.... its also twice the price

[Footloose301]

Originally Posted by prerich

What kind of speakers are you running with the new sub? That sub should handle Rap and R&B music easily. Could be the crossover point?

The speakers are just the ones that came with an Onkyo HTIB that I bought last year. Then I upgraded to the TX-SR805 receiver, now the sub, next is speakers. Speakers sound excelllent though. No distortion whatsoever!

Not sure. On the subwoofer itself I've got it set around the 80Hz mark and then I ran the Audessy setup mic again for the subwoofer.

I apologize again for the crappy pics, however I was so eager to get this thing setup and running that I didn't clean up :-(

[Beta Man]

you left some dude laying on your floor

[mdm1699]

Originally Posted by Footloose301

Well.... its also twice the price

The MFW-15 is a highly rate sub . The point that I was making is that I don't think that one would notice much of a difference between two, even though the HSU is twice the price. Your sub should be able to handle hip-hop effortlessly, or anything else.

[Beta Man]

Your room doesn't look very large from the pictures..... curious as to why you think you need two of those

[Footloose301]

The room is 14' x24'. What you don't see is the queen sized bed and DVD/Blu-ray custom shelf in the back and a refrigerator. I have my side of the room, the GF has her side. Thats why you'll see large teddy bear and some roses I bought her the other day.

[Beta Man]

ahh I see.... why not move all of that stuff out of there, and set up the room as more of a dedicated theater????

[Footloose301]

Originally Posted by Beta Man

ahh I see.... why not move all of that stuff out of there, and set up the room as more of a dedicated theater????

Because its not my house exactly. Its my parents. lol

And we already have a dedicated home theater room. This is just my bedroom.

[kpkelley]

Originally Posted by Footloose301

Because its not my house exactly. Its my parents. lol

And we already have a dedicated home theater room. This is just my bedroom.

My parents never would have let a gf live at their place. Fort Meyers is messed up first Mindy McCready now this guy.

[Original-6ix]

not trying to be a prick but does your place have central vac?

[Footloose301]

Originally Posted by Original-6ix

not trying to be a prick but does your place have central vac?

Nope. Would be nice though.

The house is around 3900sqft, 6bedrooms, 4 baths, 3 car garage, and its brand new. But its a KB Home so they don't give you much. We've atleast got 2 complete A/C systems for the 2 floors. Cleaning this place sucks.

[dobyblue]

Originally Posted by mdm1699

I was thinking the same thing. With movies you won't notice the cross-over much since low bass is LFE. Sweet sub anyway. I wonder how it stacks up to this http://hsuresearch.com/products/uls15.html

According to Craigsub's rankings it has bested every other sub Hsu has.

• Elemental Designs A7-900 ($2200 ID/SI): 116 points (63-53)
• Epik Conquest ($1599 ID): 112 points (60-52)
• SVS PB13-Ultra ($1499 ID): 109 points (57-52)
• Epik Castle ($999 ID): 109 points (59-50)
• AV123 MFW-15 Duals: 109 points (56-53)
• JL Audio Fathom 113 ($3500 BM): 103 points (53-50)
• AV123 MFW-15 ($599 ID): 103 points (53-50)
• Def Tech Trinity ($3000 BM): 102 points (54-48)
• Velodyne DD-18 ($5000 BM): 100 points (50-50)
• ACI Maestro ($2400 ID): 97 points (47-50)
• eD A5-350 ($715 ID/SI): 96 points (50-46)
• JL Audio Fathom 112 ($2600 BM): 95 points (45-50)
• Hsu VTF-3 HO + Turbo ($999 ID): 94 points (47-47)
• Hsu VTF-3 HO w/o Turbo ($899 ID): 92 points (45-47)
• Hsu VTF-3 Mark III + Turbo ($799 ID): 92 points (45-47)
• VMPS VSS ($1650 BM and ID): 92 points (45-47)
• Epik Valor ($549 ID): 91 points (44-47)
• Hsu VTF-3 Mark III w/o Turbo ($699 ID): 91 points (45-46)
• SVS PB12-Ultra: 90 points (47-43)
• Axiom EP-500 ($1230 ID/SI): 90 points (43-47)
• Hsu VTF-2 Mark III + Turbo ($599 ID): 88 points (42-46)
• SVS PB12-Plus/2 ($1299 ID): 87 points (47-40)
• SVS PB12-NSD ($599 ID): 86 points (43-43)
• Hsu VTF-2 Mark III w/o Turbo ($499 ID): 86 points (40-46)

[DBlackGT]

Originally Posted by Footloose301

Nope. Would be nice though.

The house is around 3900sqft, 6bedrooms, 4 baths, 3 car garage, and its brand new. But its a KB Home so they don't give you much. We've atleast got 2 complete A/C systems for the 2 floors. Cleaning this place sucks.

This is pretty random but I was just reading your post along with other peoples comments and one of the post said "ft. myers is a messed up place" I was never even looking at your location. But Im from ft. myers also. I went to Ft. Myers high. I now live in orange county. It's just weird whenever I met or talk to someone whos from ft. myers. I know this was a random post but just thought I say whats up and nice sub!

[Footloose301]

Originally Posted by DBlackGT

This is pretty random but I was just reading your post along with other peoples comments and one of the post said "ft. myers is a messed up place" I was never even looking at your location. But Im from ft. myers also. I went to Ft. Myers high. I now live in orange county. It's just weird whenever I met or talk to someone whos from ft. myers. I know this was a random post but just thought I say whats up and nice sub!

Awesome. I actually moved from NY in 2004 and I'm actually located in Lehigh Acres now in one of the nice golf gated communities(yes, there are some in Lehigh haha), but I just tell everyone Fort Myers because more people actually know where Fort Myers is compared to if I told everyone Lehigh Acres.

[DBlackGT]

Originally Posted by Footloose301

Awesome. I actually moved from NY in 2004 and I'm actually located in Lehigh Acres now in one of the nice golf gated communities(yes, there are some in Lehigh haha), but I just tell everyone Fort Myers because more people actually know where Fort Myers is compared to if I told everyone Lehigh Acres.

Haha ya I know where Lehigh is. Because where I used to live was in Alva right on the caloosahatchee river. So ya I tell everyone I'm from Ft. Myers also, cuz I say "Alva" and they're like huh? but anyways your theater area is sweet. And that sub is sick, if I had the room and no neighbors below me I'd have a 15inch too haha.

Also that looks likes a traxxas t-maxx on your shelf or the new version of it. I could be wrong cuz I havent done R/C since I lived there and worked at Hobbie Warehouse on 41. But those things are bad ass. Later

[ixlegitballinxl]

orange county ! lol , good sub, i had one preordered for 3 months, got tired of being jerked around on shipping times, i got an hsu instead...i'd recommend some floor standing speakers, will compliment your sub