mantis
06-01-2006, 05:40 PM
Over the years, I have been way into Rel subwoofers. No suprise around here as most of you already know that. I also have been using Rel as my Standard to judge all other sub's. I found a few I really liked but I couldn't decide what to do. I was just going to buy the Rel Storm III in black but the Martin Logan Decent and the Dynaudio Sub 500 peaked my intrest.
The Martin logan almost came home with me. It is truely an exceptional sounding and performing subwoofer. Actually I have much respect for there entire line of subs and they only been building subs for a few years. I was so close.
The sub that came home with me is the Dynaudio Sub 500. It's a remarkable sounding subwoofer. I call it a subwoofer as it can play to and lower then 20hz. It actually goes to 18 with high pressure ability. It's crazy quick and very musical. Musical subs are my standard. Most subwoofers can't play music for crap. I hate nothing more then a boomy pressured sounding sub woofer. This is to me even annoying for movie play back.
The Dynaudio Sub 500 is killer. It has balanced inputs and outputs(which my Rotel gear can't use)there are no setting on the sub except 2 switches which are input function and preset settings. It can be the master or slave in a chain of sub's if you require more then one sub.Everything else is controlled by the credit card remote. It has discrete power on and off if you want total control, Phase, deep extention and 4 preset setting for different setups if you so choose to do so. Also the crossover can be used if your not going to send LFE to it. Very cool abilities, one of the selling features for me.I also really like the high quality built quality. The front is raised up like the Confidence series or the new Contour series. Nice guys nice.
This sub disappears in the room. I had to so many times go up to it and make sure it was playing. Right out of the box, it's sounded great, well what it added to my overall performance of my system.
I played some Cd's to give it some break in time. I have had it on for a total of over 100 hours now. I let it play while I clean the house, when I'm using the system at lower volumes, etc. So I felt I could really give it a good trail run. I played Cd's from Al Di Meola, Steely Dan, even played some heavy metal stuff in Nevermore, Metallica, and some Nickelback. I'm so sadified with it's Musical performance. It's exaclty what I have been waiting for.I also tried running my mains for 2 channel in small with a crossover setting at 40hz, this seems to work better then large with the sub added in. I have to do more playing around with it but I think this is going to be the setup. I love it.
Movies was the same result, Star Wars never sounded better in my room. My main speakers hit very hard and very low but nothing like this Sub. I actually now run my main in small for music play back. The Rotel Rsp1068 preamp allows for different setups depending on what your doing. I set the crossover for the mains at 40hz, the center and rears at 60hz for movie playback. It rocks man, the damn floor shakes and I can't hear the sub. I love it. I makes me laugh in enjoyment.
I also think the Rotel RMB1095 likes the small speaker settings better then the large settings.It maybe me but I think the system sound much more dynamic with the small setting due to the amp doesn't have to puch the lower Hz's.
I'm very happy with it and it fits in perfectly with the rest of my Dynaudio speakers. I have the Audience 82 mains, 122C center channel on the Dynaudio Center base, and 2 pairs of 42w rears, one pair isn't connected as they are for the theater room which is finally going under construction this summer.
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h227/Dmantis/HPIM1194.jpg
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h227/Dmantis/HPIM1190.jpg
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h227/Dmantis/HPIM1188.jpg
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h227/Dmantis/HPIM1187.jpg
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h227/Dmantis/HPIM1189.jpg
Dan
The Martin logan almost came home with me. It is truely an exceptional sounding and performing subwoofer. Actually I have much respect for there entire line of subs and they only been building subs for a few years. I was so close.
The sub that came home with me is the Dynaudio Sub 500. It's a remarkable sounding subwoofer. I call it a subwoofer as it can play to and lower then 20hz. It actually goes to 18 with high pressure ability. It's crazy quick and very musical. Musical subs are my standard. Most subwoofers can't play music for crap. I hate nothing more then a boomy pressured sounding sub woofer. This is to me even annoying for movie play back.
The Dynaudio Sub 500 is killer. It has balanced inputs and outputs(which my Rotel gear can't use)there are no setting on the sub except 2 switches which are input function and preset settings. It can be the master or slave in a chain of sub's if you require more then one sub.Everything else is controlled by the credit card remote. It has discrete power on and off if you want total control, Phase, deep extention and 4 preset setting for different setups if you so choose to do so. Also the crossover can be used if your not going to send LFE to it. Very cool abilities, one of the selling features for me.I also really like the high quality built quality. The front is raised up like the Confidence series or the new Contour series. Nice guys nice.
This sub disappears in the room. I had to so many times go up to it and make sure it was playing. Right out of the box, it's sounded great, well what it added to my overall performance of my system.
I played some Cd's to give it some break in time. I have had it on for a total of over 100 hours now. I let it play while I clean the house, when I'm using the system at lower volumes, etc. So I felt I could really give it a good trail run. I played Cd's from Al Di Meola, Steely Dan, even played some heavy metal stuff in Nevermore, Metallica, and some Nickelback. I'm so sadified with it's Musical performance. It's exaclty what I have been waiting for.I also tried running my mains for 2 channel in small with a crossover setting at 40hz, this seems to work better then large with the sub added in. I have to do more playing around with it but I think this is going to be the setup. I love it.
Movies was the same result, Star Wars never sounded better in my room. My main speakers hit very hard and very low but nothing like this Sub. I actually now run my main in small for music play back. The Rotel Rsp1068 preamp allows for different setups depending on what your doing. I set the crossover for the mains at 40hz, the center and rears at 60hz for movie playback. It rocks man, the damn floor shakes and I can't hear the sub. I love it. I makes me laugh in enjoyment.
I also think the Rotel RMB1095 likes the small speaker settings better then the large settings.It maybe me but I think the system sound much more dynamic with the small setting due to the amp doesn't have to puch the lower Hz's.
I'm very happy with it and it fits in perfectly with the rest of my Dynaudio speakers. I have the Audience 82 mains, 122C center channel on the Dynaudio Center base, and 2 pairs of 42w rears, one pair isn't connected as they are for the theater room which is finally going under construction this summer.
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h227/Dmantis/HPIM1194.jpg
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h227/Dmantis/HPIM1190.jpg
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h227/Dmantis/HPIM1188.jpg
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h227/Dmantis/HPIM1187.jpg
http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h227/Dmantis/HPIM1189.jpg
Dan