dave weil wrote:

On Fri, 27 May 2005 17:14:00 -0400, Howard Ferstler
wrote:

Those are some of the subs I have reviewed here and there
(there are others, but they are inconsequential in this
case), so all you have to do is read the reports and see
what I say about Velodyne performance in comparison to the
competition. I often compare and mention various points.

I've read at least one of your Velodyne reviews in the past I don't
remember yu recommending that someone not buy them because they are
overpriced vis a vis an "identically sounding" sub $500 subwoofer.
Maybe you could quote such a passage.

I have also reviewed a few non-servo Velodyne models, two of
which (both bass-reflex jobs) were not even made in the USA.
I found them to be so-so, and not really as good as
comparably priced (or even lower priced) Hsu and SVS models.
I think that all of those Velodynes are now out of
production. I have recently reviewed some subs from
mainstream speaker companies that were clearly inferior to
various Hsu and SVS models that cost the same or less, and I
said so in the reviews.

In any case, I have stated in some of my subwoofer reviews
(both of Velodyne subs and the competition) that while the
Velodyne servo subs had outstandingly low distortion (subtly
audible with test-tone signals), that edge of theirs did not
really matter when musical source material is considered.
However, some purists might just like to have a subwoofer
with distortion levels only a fraction of what some Hsu and
SVS versions exhibit, and lower than just about anything
else, too, at any price. For them, the price of the servo
versions is justified. At least the differences are real and
not imaginary, even if they only show up with test tones.

Howard Ferstler