FRANKI1955

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
Less than 1 month

Visitors rate this review
5.00 of 5, 1.00 votes

Price Paid:  $940.00 from B@O Pasadena

Summary:
After setting up the EQ and playing around getting it just right this subwoofer is really fantastic. At first I was going to get the 1200r but this thing is so powerful, it would have been a waste of money. My living room is around 20 by 15, 16, something like that. Anyway listening to the latest King Kong movie is almost scary. This movie by the way gives the sub a really good workout. The quailty of the bass is just incredible. I really can't go above 30 on the volume because things in the room start to vibrate, but really if your listening room is around my size anywhere between 30 and 40 is going to be very loud and pricise. I had wanted a Velodyne for a long time and I am not disapointed. The only way to truly listen to this sub is to take it home and set it up in your listening room. Going to the store and listening to it in a sound room will not do it justice. This sub by the way is replacing 2 Yamaha YST-160'S 100w each. I had thought these subs were doing a pretty good job, I just did'ent know what I had been missing. Just go and buy one.

Strengths:
Size, sound, the set up using the micrphone, and remote control.

Weaknesses:
The only weakness is in my wallet, I am alleady wishing I had 2 of these subs. There is no weakness in this sub..................

Similar Products Used:
None that can compare

account

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
Less than 1 month

Visitors rate this review
1.00 of 5, 3.00 votes

Price Paid:  $2099.00 from KEC

Summary:
After suffering 6 months with my crap quality Yamaha Yst-sw515 Sub (which is a distortion, clipping and air-blowing woofer), I decided to replace it with another sub. After searching online for quite sometime, I finally settle for REL R205 and Velodyne SPL – 800R, both very reputable companies.

I first head down to the Velodyne showroom to check out their subs, the guy there recommended a CHT-12R and SPL-1000R, as my room size is too big for a 800R. He went on to demonstrate both subs, and I found both doesn’t produce punchy bass that can be felt and both sounded almost the same even though the SPL cost about twice as much that the CHT series. As I use my system for movies only, punchy bass is very important! The guy then brings me and my wife to another showroom as he mention it could be the acoustic environment in the previous room. Again no punchy bass there but this time I can tell the difference between the CHT and the SPL. The bass of CHT sounded more spread out and the SPL produce tight quality bass, the difference is really big. So then he recommended the SPL-1200R which sounded slightly better than the 1000R but still not the punchy bass I wanted. He then went on to another demonstration with the coffee table size CHT-15R, and woala! I found the bass I want, real deep punchy bass that rumbles my chair and probably the customers outside the showroom. Even my wife who doesn’t know about audio turned and said, this is very good, just like watching movie in the theater!

But deep down I don’t believe the SPL-1000R and SPL-1200R couldn’t perform as intended, and soon I notice one problem. The subs were placed almost right in the middle of the room. So I requested to have them placed right in front where the coffee table sub sits. And immediately they sounded much punchy than before although still not as I’ve intended to hear. The guy also mention because the floor is carpeted and the wall covered with fabrics, the bass tended to be about 30% - 40% less punchy. So I’m left with only the SPL-1000R, SPL-1200R and CHT-12R. He then offered me an option, I can get the SPL-1000R or CHT-12R first, and if it’s not the bass I want, I can return the SPL-1000R and bring home the SPL-1200R and just top-up the difference. In the end, I chose SPL1000R as the quality of the bass is so much better than the CHT series.

Back home I did some testing with my 1000R, and immediately the sub blew me away; the SPL can produce so much bass in such a small enclosure!! Soundtracks that made my Yamaha SW515 clip and distort was playing effortlessly with my 1000R, and I’m only using about 40% of what the sub is capable of! After running the so simple EQ on the sub, there was an immediate change, the bass is down right tight and solid deep, no more bloomy and distortion. I can hear a much wider dynamic in my system and sounds that are non-existence previously. I’m quite sure if I push this sub to the max it’s going to shake my windows to shatter, break my doors and the doors my neighbors! If I had gotten the SPL-1200R, I think my house is going to be destroyed. I’m very amazed to what this sub is capable of; everything about this sub is a wow once I hit the play button. Guys at Velodyne really made something solid there, thanks~!

Strengths:
LOUD SOLID BASS that rattles everything in your house! Quality bass that can be heard and felt!

Weaknesses:
volume is indicate my the numbers of the blue lights blinks infront of the sub, can be quite troublesome once you need to adjust the volume of the sub.

Similar Products Used:
Yamaha yst-sw515

KPChoong

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
1 to 3 months

Visitors rate this review
5.00 of 5, 1.00 votes

Price Paid:  $1200.00 from KL MY

Summary:
Recently sold my Sunfire True Subwoofer as I had persistent problem with integrating the Sunfire with the rest of my speakers (both audio & AV). Perhaps, the issue was room influenced, as there was a pronounced "boom" to whatever setting I dialed in on the Sunfire. Room treatments could not even address the problem adequately. Eventually, I gave up and sold it. In considering a new purchase, I determined that the new sub should have some sort of "room tuning" capability aka equalization that would flatten the in-room response of the subwoofer so as not to excerbate room boundaries or resonances (as I had with the Sunfire). Hence, the choice was narrowed to the Velodyne SPL series with an automated EQ facility. Just to ensure that there was the difference to the EQ feature, I tried the Velodyne SPL1000R without using the EQ first, and the results were no better than with the old Sunfire. Horrors of horrors the sound was untamed, fat, and boomy. Once the automated EQ was engaged, the transformation was hard to believe! What was once uncouth and boomy bass was turned into the most tight, deep (real deep) and tuneful bass I have ever encountered in a sub. Gone are the room resounances especially the boominess, and uncontrolled bass output. In its place are the most exquisite bass I have ever come across in my own experience or that of my friend's set up. The SPL1000R mates excellently with both of my resident system - great with stereo, the bass goes real down low and deep if such was there in the first place. With video, the LFE was astounding - deep, deep growls, and real low lows! I have gone back to re-visit with many of my DVD's that didn't quite come to grps with the old set up. Movies like the Jurassic Parks series, Terminator, Lord of Rings, Starwars, etc took on a new experience. Many subs may give you excessive bass or output, but the Veldodyne offers quality bass - tight, deep, & low - without the looseness or boom. A real gem this Velodyne with the EQ feature. Don't ever get a real sub-woofer without this feature. It will save you $$$ trying to rectify the room limitations with acoustic treatments. The slightly higher price of the Velodynes with the EQ feature will pay great listening and movie viewing experience. My advise: don't ever get another sub without an EQ feature - it's that important !

Strengths:
Great quality bass, real low bass (down to the 20 hz or so), tight, muscular, punch in the stomach bass (felf as much as it can be heard). Great power and output capability (2000 dynamic/1000 rms power output). Great build quality. In addition to the "must have" EQ feature, the handy remote lends great flexibility to adjust and tweak the subwoofer for seemless integration without the usual laborous subwoofer set up procedures (crawling around on all fours, or having some to carry the sub around to adjudicate the best sounding position, etc). I would rate the remote as an essesial feature of new generation subwoofers, second only to the EQ. Also, the various pre-sets for AV, Jazz, etc (there are 4 for the Velodyne) are great as well., including a nice feature of "night" listening where the sub attentuates the volume so as not to disturb your wife in the bedroom or the neighbours next door.

Weaknesses:
The blue light which glares back at you especially in AV rooms with controlled lighting - quite disturbing really. Though you can turn it off on the remote, I find putting in a tiny piece of UV sheet (like the ones they use for car glass tint) to block the LED extremely useful. It cuts down the glare immensely while affording the user the eye contact clarity when you use the remote to adjust the various parameters on the Velodyne. a second weakness is that Velodyne obviously use some common remote trigger modes as the SPL1000R is triggered off by my one of my other equipment remote (remote that operates my Pre-amp). Because of this I need to exercise care when operating the Pre-amp remote so as not to interfere with the sub's working or settings. Easily done, but nonetheless irritating and somewhat inconvenient. Wish Velodyne offers a user definable or changable remote triggering setting.

Similar Products Used:
Sunfire, Wharfedate, Yamaha, REL

Price Paid:  $1200.00 from tweeter

Summary:
I recently had a audio and video tech come to my house and optimize my entire system. money well spent. He suggested I get a larger subwoofer since mine was not big enough to maxamize my systems performance. He suggested I go with the Velodyne spl series. I bought it at Tweeter after listening to some cd's and dvd's I had brought. I am still trying to learn all of its features. Overall I am, very happy with my purchase.

Strengths:
this subwoofer comes with a remote control which comes in handy when trying to first set up all of its functions. The microphone you use to set up your subwoofers tones is very easy and quick to use.

Weaknesses:
none so far

reginald lancaster

Overall Rating
 5 of 5

Value Rating
 5 of 5

Used product for
1 to 3 months

Visitors rate this review
2.80 of 5, 5.00 votes

Price Paid:  $1000.00 from Myer Emco

Summary:
O my goodness. I have never heard such and increadable sounding home sub-woofer like this one before and I have listened to a lot of them. We went thur 4 subs before I heard this on; once I did it was love at first hear. For the price I don't think there a better sounding sub. I purchased the Velodyne SPL-1000R, 10", 346 oz magnet, 2000 watts Dynamic and 1000 watts RMS power sub from Emyer Emco.

Strengths:
Folks I want to tell you that this sub is something special. I lacks nothing. The controlled lows are amazing; it is controlled with some kind of a motor that controlls the way the driver moves so it will image what ever sound it is reproducing. If it is trying to reproduce a kick drum the motor in the sealed inclosure will stop the comb so it give up the same kind of punch the bass drum would. the inclosed motor also lets the speaker hold a long note of say a bass gatuiar without distorting. O did I mention, it also has a built in equilizer so you can custom taylor the sound like you like althought, I personally have not had to touch ot other that turning the power down. This thing is truly amazing. Try on out. All I can say, just like the company is the sub is Simply Perfect. :)

Weaknesses:
No weaknesses I can think of.

Similar Products Used:
The only sub woofer I can thing of the even comes close to this sub is used in cars called W7 by JL Audio, but really I can not think of any sub coming even close to this Velodyne for the price. The folks at Velodyne have really developed something special with the SPL series subwoofers. I know they might make different series of sub - woofers, but with the happyness I have gotten from this sub, I would not think that anything you get from this company is going to be junk. Check them out at www.velodyne.com