"Margaret von B." wrote:

"dave weil" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 22 May 2005 21:48:25 GMT, "Margaret von B."
wrote:

Your rooms are large but with low ceilings so
they don't have that much volume. Hmm. What kind of floor/foundation do
you
have?

I'm sure that he's on a slab. Most Florida homes are. He's also got
super-duper framing as well.

I've made the same point about his rooms. The dimensions ratio is
substandard. Of course, he's going to trot out Toole, who thinks that
you can use any ole room any ole time.

I find it rather interesting that Howard claims that the Hsu and the other
cheapish sub he has are as good as it gets and yet his rooms are brimming
with all kinds of bass enhancement devices.

I rarely use the synthesizers, for reasons that I have
explained elsewhere. As for the Hsu (and SVS) subs being
cheap, I have compared them pretty closely to both of my
servo Velodyne models and they hold up very well with test
tones and are functionally equal with musical and movie
material. I recently compared a $300 Hsu to another brand
that listed for $850 and the Hsu mopped up the floor with it
when comparing tones between 40 and 25 Hz. With musical
sources the differences were less apparent.

One simply has to conclude that
something in his setup really precludes him from testing and rendering
opinions on subwoofers altogether.

Perhaps you should read some of my subwoofer reviews before
jumping to this conclusion.

I should probably invite him to my house
so that he can hear what BASS sounds like. :-)

I doubt if you can surpass the extremely clean bass
performance of that F1800RII of mine, right down to 20 Hz. I
have compared it to some sensational stuff, and while the
musical performance of some of them matched the servo, with
test tones the Velodyne always came out ahead, if only
slightly at times. Actually, my modified (by me) SVS 16-46
can generate wall-rattling (and clean) sound right down to
17 Hz.

Actually, I have done some very close comparing of several
Hsu subs to those Velodynes and the result was that the Hsu
units were a near match, at least down to the point where
the Hsu subs started to roll off. (In this case, I am
referring to the STF-1 and VTF-2 models, both of which I
have reviewed for The Sensible Sound.) I also recently
reviewed an upscale SVS unit that held its own with the best
I had on hand.

Howard Ferstler