How does this home audio sub compare to my car's set up?

[sjv13 10+ year member]

I'm going to be buying a nice little dorm set up soon. And I'm trying to pick out a subwoofer. I'm looking at this:

PB-1000 - SVS

And I was just wondering how it will compare to my Type arrggg on 500rms. I know that you need less RMS in home audio to get the same sound level as car audio. So I'm thinking it might be close.

Any input in appreciated!

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[Iosias 10+ year member]

For 500 buy a Dayton subwoofer and plate amp and have someone here build a box = Win

 

[MOFOMAN 10+ year member]

same thing i was gonna say for 500 you could piece something together better

 

[Jerhemy 10+ year member]

For 500 buy a Dayton subwoofer and plate amp and have someone here build a box = Win

this^^^

buy a bash or dayton plate amp ~~500 rms and a 12 or even 15" sub, build a box yourself and it'll crush that one.

 

[naughtyca 10+ year member]

buy 2 of these and split your rca total cost $200

For only $98.55 each when QTY 50+ purchased - 12 Inch 150 Watt Powered Subwoofer - Black

 

[sjv13 10+ year member]

buy 2 of these and split your rca total cost $200
For only $98.55 each when QTY 50+ purchased - 12 Inch 150 Watt Powered Subwoofer - Black

That's not ported.

 

[sjv13 10+ year member]

For 500 buy a Dayton subwoofer and plate amp and have someone here build a box = Win

same thing i was gonna say for 500 you could piece something together better

this^^^
buy a bash or dayton plate amp ~~500 rms and a 12 or even 15" sub, build a box yourself and it'll crush that one.

That an interesting idea. Kind of weary because people seem to push people away from doing that on this forum.

 

[Iosias 10+ year member]

Id say most people are for doing it that way lol, diy tends to be the trend here lol.

 

[Jerhemy 10+ year member]

haha was gonna say, pretty much everyone here says do it yourself and save money/get better results.

I built my home theater sub for like 400$ and it pounds out my whole upstairs, knocks **** off the walls, gotten the cops called a couple times. And it's a shyt 12" kenwood KFC on a 300 wrms Bash plate amp tuned to like 20hz in a 2 cube box.

 

[sjv13 10+ year member]

haha was gonna say, pretty much everyone here says do it yourself and save money/get better results.
I built my home theater sub for like 400$ and it pounds out my whole upstairs, knocks **** off the walls, gotten the cops called a couple times. And it's a shyt 12" kenwood KFC on a 300 wrms Bash plate amp tuned to like 20hz in a 2 cube box.

Ok. so it's loud... but does it sound good?

 

[Jerhemy 10+ year member]

Ok. so it's loud... but does it sound good?

Yes it sounds great with my polk 60's off a H/K 136.

 

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but yes, it does sound very clean and accurate.

 

[sjv13 10+ year member]

Yes it sounds great with my polk 60's off a H/K 136. 

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but yes, it does sound very clean and accurate.

Would you recommend the 20hz tuning?

 

[Jerhemy 10+ year member]

Yeah, i'm no audiophile or anything, but I know a lot of hometheater subs are tuned super low like that. Hopefully someone with more HT experience will chime in. @Boomsday ;

 

[naughtyca 10+ year member]

That's not ported.

its poted click on large / more views

not sure if you noticed if not all of powered home theater subs are ported, i personally have not seen a sealed home theater sub. if you want real bass do at least 2 sub, i am running 3 subs

 

[sjv13 10+ year member]

its poted click on large / more views
not sure if you noticed if not all of powered home theater subs are ported, i personally have not seen a sealed home theater sub. if you want real bass do at least 2 sub, i am running 3 subs

they are definitely not all ported. Even the brand I was just looking at has three in their line up that are sealed. High Performance Compact Sealed Subwoofers - SVS