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Audiophile_At_Birth · 01-26-2009, 02:38 PM

BIG Hanger explosion in Pearl Harbor

That's when i realized i really did need a new sub. It think it hits down to a good 20 hz and below.

Driver_King · 01-27-2009, 01:48 AM

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Originally Posted by saprano

How much are the ED's?

$350 shipped with Matte finish.

Blu-Dog · 01-27-2009, 02:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Brain Sturgeon

Try the Pods Emerge scene from War of the Worlds. One of the all time nastiest cinematic bass lines. It'll make you feel like the floor is opening up beneath you.

I use that one to dazzle folks, too...I take the grille off the Fathom for that one. Freaks people out.

Blu-Dog · 01-27-2009, 02:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Audiophile_At_Birth

I'm surprised most of you guys haven't mentioned Cloverfield or U-571

I don't have U-571 - just watched it on cable, with the Klipsch's...it was pretty serious bass, and that was with crappy compressed Time Warner DD5.1 on their "HD" channel (HBO, I think). Maybe I'll get it, it was serious.

Audiophile_At_Birth · 01-27-2009, 02:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Blu-Dog

I don't have U-571 - just watched it on cable, with the Klipsch's...it was pretty serious bass, and that was with crappy compressed Time Warner DD5.1 on their "HD" channel (HBO, I think). Maybe I'll get it, it was serious.

It's a good movie. Not one of my favs but it's entertaining. I'm sure with the Blu-ray version, you'd be even more impressed. Like you, I too have Time Warner, and it just doesn't do the justice to any ones system IMO.

SDBlu · 01-27-2009, 02:35 AM

The Mummy-Tomb of the Dragon Emperor has pretty good bass. The scene with the avalanche towards the end of the movie gives your sub a pretty good workout!

saprano · 01-27-2009, 03:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Driver_King

$350 shipped with Matte finish.

Nice! i checked out the site thats linked in your sig, and the A3 is a good price also.

Carlsberg19 · 01-28-2009, 05:01 AM

The scene in cloverfiled when their sitting on the balcony and there is this loud crash followed by the lights in the city going out and car alarms sounding..THAT is amazing.

Audiophile_At_Birth · 01-28-2009, 05:15 AM

Agreed!! But the Dark Knight is LFE happy period. I'm sure there is some decent bass in that movie. But I think the best Bass drop has to be War of the Worlds. The Pod immergence scene murdered my crappy HTiB sub. MURDERED!!! I can't wait any longer for the eD!!! I will re-watch most of my movies with my new reciever and sub!

BrettBell_eD_Rep · 01-28-2009, 03:04 PM

Two of my favorites are in Iron Man when he fires up the jets in the lab the first and second time, just the way it rumbles is awesome. The other is KFP, when Tai Lung is escaping and it goes into slow motion that one is just flat out fun from an animated movie.

aramis109 · 01-28-2009, 05:56 PM

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Originally Posted by BrettBell_eD_Rep

Two of my favorites are in Iron Man when he fires up the jets in the lab the first and second time, just the way it rumbles is awesome. The other is KFP, when Tai Lung is escaping and it goes into slow motion that one is just flat out fun from an animated movie.

...Skidoosh.

I love that movie more than my 4 year old.

BrettBell_eD_Rep · 01-28-2009, 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by aramis109

...Skidoosh.

I love that movie more than my 4 year old.

One of my favorites to put on as I'm cleaning my apartment, still makes me laugh and I've seen it so many times.

Yeha-Noha · 01-29-2009, 07:12 PM

I challenge anyone to watch the cannon fire scene's in Immortal Beloved. It starts after Beethoven's failure to lead the orchestra during his No. 5 Piano Concerto (The Emperor) in Chapter 8 (BD release, DD TrueHD).

The cannon fire scenes start within a minute or so after that during Napoleon's siege of Vienna, Austria. The cannon fire shots are horrendous. Listener beware, don't play it loud first time around. Just know what you are getting yourself into and your subwoofer(s) too. It blows out of the water Master and Commander's cannon fire exchange with the Acheron in the beginning of the movie. I have a 12" subwoofer and 1,024 W RMS subwoofer amp (see my subwoofer in my gallery). Not even Cloverfield made my subwoofer and it's massive plate amp work as hard as it did during Immortal Beloved. You just wouldn't believe that a chic flick about Beethoven's secret love would ever feature such astounding bass like that which very few movies could ever match.

Blu-Dog · 01-29-2009, 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by rwojtalewicz

I have a 12" subwoofer and 1,024 W RMS subwoofer amp (see my subwoofer in my gallery).

That looks like one bad-ass, nasty sub.

What driver do you have in that beast?

Yeha-Noha · 01-29-2009, 10:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Blu-Dog

That looks like one bad-ass, nasty sub.

What driver do you have in that beast?

It's the older, discontinued (actually better IMHO) Titanic 1200.

The newer Titanic MKIII that replaces it has a slightly better X max parameter that beats the 1200's 14.22 mm by 4 mm. They sacrificed low bass performance to get that with fs = 25 Hz vs the 1200's fs = 16 Hz. So wow, you can now put the new MKIII in the popular tiny 1 - 2 cu ft boxes. My older Titanic 1200 does superbly in the larger 3.3 cu ft box. Thus it doesn't need X max = 18.7 mm anyway and performs much better because it can pump out infrasonic bass below 20 Hz. The new MKIII series can't do that as well as my old Titanic 1200 can. Problem is if I wanted to add another matching subwoofer, I can't. But I would come closer by using this model. The larger 15" subwoofer is closest in performance to my 12" Titanic 1200 and would work quite well or perhaps a wee bit better in an identical sealed box.

While you're at it check out the plate amp that powers my subwoofer. Believe me, without that, the Titanic 1200 just doesn't come to life.

Twitch9 · 01-29-2009, 10:22 PM

The other thing to check is that you don't have any compression on in the amp settings, this could also be the reason the volume drops so much. look for Comp in the manual setting on your amp and turn it off not to auto. But yeah you need a sub to.

Blu-Dog · 01-29-2009, 10:47 PM

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Originally Posted by rwojtalewicz

While you're at it check out the plate amp that powers my subwoofer. Believe me, without that, the Titanic 1200 just doesn't come to life.

I've been eyeballing that one, but wasn't sure it would feed the bulldog for a sealed unit. Maybe I should give it a shot, since it's working for you.

Sir Terrence · 01-29-2009, 10:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Audiophile_At_Birth

Agreed!! But the Dark Knight is LFE happy period. I'm sure there is some decent bass in that movie. But I think the best Bass drop has to be War of the Worlds. The Pod immergence scene murdered my crappy HTiB sub. MURDERED!!! I can't wait any longer for the eD!!! I will re-watch most of my movies with my new reciever and sub!

Unbelieveable as this seems, but War of the Worlds had high levels of bass down to 10hz according to my RTA's. Ocassionally the levels in the deep bass from the LFE were greater than in the midrange. Now that is some earth moving bass.

Yeha-Noha · 01-30-2009, 12:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Blu-Dog

I've been eyeballing that one, but wasn't sure it would feed the bulldog for a sealed unit. Maybe I should give it a shot, since it's working for you.

There is a Q & A discussion at parts-express.com where you can ask technical questions relating to their products. I would recommend that.

This plate amp is big and heavy like the ones used in B & W 12" subwoofers which have 1000 W plate amps too, and you know those are proven performers. The popular 12" SVS SB12 Plus subwoofer has a 425 W Bash plate amp to drive a 12" sub in a sealed box. I am really skeptical about that arrangement. Based on my own experience, the SVS subs seem to be way under powered using the 425 W Bash amp. I would replace it with the Dayton HPSA1000. I don't know what kind of subwoofer you have, but it would seem to me that 1000 W is plenty of power in normal sized rooms. But 500 W is definitely pushing it.

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01-26-2009, 02:38 PM	#21
Audiophile_At_Birth Special Member Member since:Nov 2008 Location:El Paso, TX Home Theater Gallery:31 4K collection:8 Blu-ray collection:235 Blu-ray reviews:1	BIG Hanger explosion in Pearl Harbor That's when i realized i really did need a new sub. It think it hits down to a good 20 hz and below.

01-27-2009, 02:35 AM	#26
SDBlu Special Member Member since:Jul 2008 Location:So Cal Blu-ray collection:171	The Mummy-Tomb of the Dragon Emperor has pretty good bass. The scene with the avalanche towards the end of the movie gives your sub a pretty good workout!

01-28-2009, 05:01 AM	#28
Carlsberg19 Senior Member Top contributor Member since:Apr 2008 Location:Donegal, Ireland Home Theater Gallery:9 Blu-ray collection:58 Blu-ray reviews:7	The scene in cloverfiled when their sitting on the balcony and there is this loud crash followed by the lights in the city going out and car alarms sounding..THAT is amazing.

01-28-2009, 05:15 AM	#29
Audiophile_At_Birth Special Member Member since:Nov 2008 Location:El Paso, TX Home Theater Gallery:31 4K collection:8 Blu-ray collection:235 Blu-ray reviews:1	Agreed!! But the Dark Knight is LFE happy period. I'm sure there is some decent bass in that movie. But I think the best Bass drop has to be War of the Worlds. The Pod immergence scene murdered my crappy HTiB sub. MURDERED!!! I can't wait any longer for the eD!!! I will re-watch most of my movies with my new reciever and sub!

01-28-2009, 03:04 PM	#30
BrettBell_eD_Rep Elemental Designs Member since:Jan 2009 Location:Newton, IA Blu-ray collection:6	Two of my favorites are in Iron Man when he fires up the jets in the lab the first and second time, just the way it rumbles is awesome. The other is KFP, when Tai Lung is escaping and it goes into slow motion that one is just flat out fun from an animated movie.

01-29-2009, 07:12 PM	#33
Yeha-Noha Power Member Member since:Jan 2008 Blu-ray reviews: 43	I challenge anyone to watch the cannon fire scene's in Immortal Beloved. It starts after Beethoven's failure to lead the orchestra during his No. 5 Piano Concerto (The Emperor) in Chapter 8 (BD release, DD TrueHD). The cannon fire scenes start within a minute or so after that during Napoleon's siege of Vienna, Austria. The cannon fire shots are horrendous. Listener beware, don't play it loud first time around. Just know what you are getting yourself into and your subwoofer(s) too. It blows out of the water Master and Commander's cannon fire exchange with the Acheron in the beginning of the movie. I have a 12" subwoofer and 1,024 W RMS subwoofer amp (see my subwoofer in my gallery). Not even Cloverfield made my subwoofer and it's massive plate amp work as hard as it did during Immortal Beloved. You just wouldn't believe that a chic flick about Beethoven's secret love would ever feature such astounding bass like that which very few movies could ever match.

01-29-2009, 10:22 PM	#36
Twitch9 Expert Member Top ranked HT gallery Member since:Nov 2008 Location:Canada Home Theater Gallery:83 Blu-ray collection:49 Blu-ray reviews:16 Trading Score:2	The other thing to check is that you don't have any compression on in the amp settings, this could also be the reason the volume drops so much. look for Comp in the manual setting on your amp and turn it off not to auto. But yeah you need a sub to.

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