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1 minute ago, babadono said:
You're doin' the hang your 402 down a little and in front of the bass bin?
@babadono good eye
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12 minutes ago, Kalifornian said:
Jubes in title, 3 pages later and still no pics of jube just lame freq plots and the seating position ... Come on man!!
@Kalifornian Here ya go bro!
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2 hours ago, Khornukopia said:
I like the symmetry of your arrangement, but for the sake of diagnosis, have you tried playing your sub woofer tucked into the corner?
Thanks @Khornukopia
I have not. "tucking" this sub anywhere is not really an easy thing to do.... But it is one of the things i'm going to be testing PRIOR to completely filipping the room around so the speakers and the subs are on the same wall and so i can get atleast 14' away from the sub..
I am still have my doubts since its current placement is considered 1/4 placement and Roy has mentioned it should be digging deeper.
What i'm confused with is if the sub is "supposed" to have a lower frequency response shouldn't that be seen with a sweep when the mic is at the mouth of the horn? When i did a sweep, at the horn mouth, still 30hz fall off...
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20 hours ago, mikebse2a3 said:
Erik I understand and here is a couple of thoughts for you to try if you haven’t already. 🙂
If you still have the 32hz peq boost on the Jubilee try bypassing it and see what happens.
I would also experiment with rolling the Jubilee off in the region that you are using the 1502 to see how that changes the response at the Listening position.
miketn
@mikebse2a3 So last night i DID remove the slight 32hz peq boost on the Jubes. I also applied a high pass on the Jubes at the xover frequency.
The end result eliminated the sharp dip at 40hz. I would assume the previous dip was due to the colliding tones from the sub and the jubes.
BUT..... Regardless.... I have a hard drop at 30hz.... I am still under the assumption that either my room is tuned to that frequency and things drop off steeply at 30hz at my listening position... OR.... I need to get further away from the Sub allowing it to fully develop.
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6 hours ago, Khornukopia said:
Yes the mineral wool insulation does function properly as a bass trap while sealed in the bags. The plastic shrink wrap is not a barrier to the long wavelengths of the bass frequencies. It is actually recommended that bass traps should have a thin hard surface to reflect the high frequency energy, if you don't want a broadband absorber.
@Khornukopia Have got some 8" cornertraps on the same end as the sub. These traps also contain a surface membrane to reflect HF waves....
I've heard the insulation bale trick works too.... However, I'm still skeptical that trapping is going to help in this situation. From what i read to tame frequencies below 40hz require HUGE traps....
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But what i'm really confused with is how can some people with smaller rooms, smaller subs get room responses down into the teens..
I must be missing something.....
( I would like to stress, i am NOT looking for a response in the teens)
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2 minutes ago, babadono said:
The wavelength of a 20Hz sound wave is 17 meters. So 4 meters is approx. a quarter wavelength. Just sayin'
I'm picking up what your throwing down......
I'm at the limits of what my room can actually produce. My seating position just happens to be at a low point and once I get further to that 1/4 wavelenth point I can start to get more gain at that frequency.
Long short of things... Sub is working correctly, needs MUCH MORE space to really come alive and to get down to that freq range naturally I need to be sitting towards the back of the room with the sub facing me.....
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45 minutes ago, mikebse2a3 said:
Erik I understand and here is a couple of thoughts for you to try if you haven’t already. 🙂
If you still have the 32hz peq boost on the Jubilee try bypassing it and see what happens.
I would also experiment with rolling the Jubilee off in the region that you are using the 1502 to see how that changes the response at the Listening position.
miketn
Just now, mikebse2a3 said:Erik you will probably need to readjust your Sub settings when you change the Jub settings I have suggested you try.
If the suggestions lowers the peaks in the 30hz region then I would try to rebalance the Sub by turning up the sub channel level from the xilica and use more cuts than boost peqs or possible shelves adjustments.
miketn
Mike,
I will try doing both of your suggestions. It'll be interesting to see what changes.
However. With my recent tests. I have not been activating the Jubes. The sweeps and test have been with the sub only.
From what Chris mentioned in Adams thread, it seems as if my room has a transition frequency of 29hz.... This is seems to coincide with the 30hz drop i'm seeing in the raw data @ listening position.
When running the sweep (sub only) 4m/13'' from the face of the sub, that dip from 30hz moved down to the low to mid 20hz region. Is this essentially what people describe as room gain?
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36 minutes ago, mikebse2a3 said:
Question: If a person were standing in front of the sub on the ground outside with no reflection from near by structures would distance from the sub matter..?
miketn
I would say no since there are no reflections for the sound waves to bounce back creating a null?
Mike, as you know I am still learning the fundamentals when it comes to this stuff... I guess what i'm finding is that it is my room causing the sub from producing its full potential? Seems like this room is limited by a natural 30hz freq.... maybe a little more with boosting and then a little more due to room gain once i get around 4m from the speaker?
Mind you, i am not complaining or trying to get into the single digit / teens with a response, I am just trying to understand whats going on here and calm some of my OCD thinking i'm doing something wrong.
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6 minutes ago, Chris A said:
What is the longest dimension of your listening room? This will determine the transition to "pressure zone" region or band. In my room, that transition happens at ~14 Hz...calculated using:
1132 ft/sec / (2*39.5 feet))--a half wavelength calculation.
Above this frequency band, you've got the "sparse mode region" of the room (usually up to 100-300 Hz, depending on room volume and reverberation time), and above that, the "dense mode region". At the commercial cinema scale, there is no real "transition to pressure zone" due to the room's dimensions since they are quite large by comparison to home hi-fi sized rooms.
Chris
My Room is 19'6" L x 14' W x 9'H
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I've been doing some testing the last couple of nights.
It seems as if you need to be at least 4m away from the subwoofer to get a respond in the 20's with out any PEQ boosting.
While you can get a flat response down to 20hz at my listening position ( about 60" in front of the sub. Sub is behind me) A significant amount of boosting and attenuation is needed. When doing this the result is less overall SPL....
So horn loaded vented subs need a significant amount of volume / distance for them to fully open up?
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Thanks to these forums Adam and I have become very good friends and we both have very similar setups: Jubes & 1802/1502.
After several weeks of chatting with Adam, sharing response curves and ideas, I'm starting to see a pattern. (some of you have seen the post I created with questions/concerns about the response of my 1502 sub.)
The two subs seem to be VERY similar in response.. This has been mentioned before by Roy, i think he has mentioned that the 1502 is identical except 3db down.
What i'm finding is that taking measurements at the sub mouth or somewhat nearfield ( my listening position is about 60" infront of the sub. Sub is behind me like Mike Beasley has his)
The sub naturally rolls off right around 30hz. With some PEQ manipulation I CAN get a flat response down to 20hz but with sacrificing SPL.
Should subs like these create a lower response at the horn mouth?
Last night i did some more testing and when running sweeps of the natural response of the sub ( no peqs) the response did extend further down to the 20hz point once i was around 4m from the face of the sub.
When Roy mentions the 1802 will achieve mid teens in a Auditorium without boost. Is this a direct result of needing a room with enough volume to allow the sub to fully bloom those lower octaves while achieving the published SPLs? If this is the case, it almost seems as if at 4m/13' distance from the sub face is the sweet spot to get down into the 20s.
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5 minutes ago, mark1101 said:
I didn't see anything wrong with the very first sweep. It was good to the mid 20s. That will loosen drywall in time
@mark1101 not going to disagree with you however, just trying to have it a little smoother down to 20hz.
Its pretty impressive how the sub flexes the walls in my dedicated room which build with double layered 5/8" drywall..
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16 hours ago, babadono said:
@MisterVego Are you trying to get the 1502 to dig a little deeper? @AHall has been doing port plugging tests on his 1802 to try and get it to go a little lower. Don't know if you've seen his thread.
@babadono Not trying to dig deeper than designed. Just trying to get a flatter respond down to 20hz. I don't think I'm being greedy since i have been told that the sub is capable of a sub 20hz response..
As @AHall has mentioned we are friends and have been discussing the issues i am having. His 1802 is capable of digging down to 20hz before his port mod. I am not interested in modifying my sub in any way. Just trying to determine if this is a PEQ issue or if its a modal issue in my room. Since the 1502 is a rare beast and the 1802 is only in a few residential environments I'm optimistic that the help of the experts in this forum can help me resolve the issue.
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1 hour ago, Frzninvt said:
It is not designed to have much if any useable output below 30Hz it's a theater subwoofer. If you want solid output below 30Hz you need another subwoofer that is solidly capable of it without having to alter it. I am sure it will pound your chest in the 40 to 60Hz range though it's just not going to give you the octaves below that though. I run Velodyne HGS-18's which are far smaller and dig far deeper albeit with less overall output but that is what the La Scala's, Cornwall's, and four Heresy HIP's are for.
Are you sure about that? Quote from Mr. Bonehead himself when doing research on this sub... :
"If you have room for them, the 1502 will take you below 20 hz and will match the clean bass of the jub lf. I think the 1502 will shock you."
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12 minutes ago, dtel said:
Good point, much better than music which can all over the place when trying to measure something.
@mikebse2a3 & @dtel i would have to agree to, however I have been using frequency sweeps from 0-20khz to take my measurements not music.
Is this okay to do?
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2 hours ago, Chris A said:
Just remember that a 1/4 wavelength (90 degrees) at 40 Hz, room temperature, is 7 feet, i.e., 6.25 ms. So the summing of the sub/Jub bass bin at the crossover point is pretty insensitive to changes in delay values. I'd go in steps of 3--6 ms to see changes in frequency response at 40 Hz.
By the way, you're going to see a fair amount of harmonic distortion growth below 30 Hz if the sub behaves like the 1802. It seems as if the real contribution of the 1502 or 1802 is their placement mid-wall such that it's filling up the mid-wall room modes with about the same bass extension as the Jub bass bins.
Chris
Chris,
I'll try playing with the delay again.
I set my current delay by playing a 50hz ( my xover freq) tone and separately matched levels of the jubes and the sub.
I then reversed polarity of the sub and then played both the jubes and subs together increasing delay until the overall SPL was the lowest. Once done a changed the subpolarity back to normal.
Perhaps there is a better way to adjust this?
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20 minutes ago, mikebse2a3 said:
How does this tweaking sound Erik compared to the previous setup?
I assume you added a PEQ around 22 Hz with a fairly sharp Q....?
Looking at your previous plots you might play with the delay on the sub to see if the crossover transition region around 43hz can be smoothed out some without causing an issue above or below that point.
Mike,
I did a test with some music that contained some deep notes.. Things sounded more pronounced where in the past the notes were faint.
Below are the PEQ's needed to smooth the response down to 20hz. but as you can see quite a bit of boosting was needed with the PEQ's AND with the output gain to get to the output level to match the jubes.
Not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing. During my brief tests last night, i was able to get things pretty loud in the room and did not pick up any clipping or distortion.
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15 hours ago, mikebse2a3 said:
Hey Erik
Run a sweep with the sub and Jubs. Then mute the sub and run the sweep again and let’s see how they compare.
Also when looking at the current plot you posted it looks to me that you show a solid 25hz. Have you run 1/3rd octave pink noise or warble tones and if so how does it actually sound regardless of in room measurements..?
Are you running the sub through the xilica and if so do you also have a HI-Pass activated in the xilica on the sub and if so what are the parameters ..?
Are you using the XLS 2502 just as an amp or are you using DSP function also?
miketn
Mike,
I have yet to run any 1/3rd Oct PN or warble tones yet.... I can try that.
Sub is running through the Xilica and it does NOT have a high pass activated.
I am using the XLS 2502 as an amp only. NO DSP functions are activated, just running in Bridged mode.
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update with some tweaking > ive also attached the PEQ's and level increases needed to get to this point.
Seems like alot of boosting... Is this okay to do, or am i sitting in a huge null point?
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Hoping the experts can lend a hand with figuring out an issue i'm having with the 2.1 rig.
Here's the issue. When running a full frequency sweep at listening position, i'm getting a steep drop-off at 30hz.
I know this subwoofer can go lower than this so not sure if its a setup issue, positioning issue or what.
Some basics:
Room Dimensions:
20' x 14' x 9'
Jubes currently positioned on the front short wall with the 1502 sub seated behind me... My listening position is 89" from the back wall which is about 60.5 " from the face of the subwoofer.
System is being run with a McIntosh Preamp > Xilica > System amps.. The sub is being run with a Crown XLS-2502.
I'm running the Jubes full range with the 1502 crossing at 50hz.
Attached is a pic of a recent sweep from my listening position.
Thanks for the help.
Erik
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On 4/5/2019 at 11:17 PM, Ole Dollar said:
I've had a 1502 for a couple of months now and you are correct it does work great with Jubilees. Mine are set to crossover at 50Hz and am using an amp similar to the one @dtel uses although I have the Xilica controller. Its hard for me to explain what the 1502 does but it is clean and accurate and timbre is right, on top of that it just keeps going as long as the power is clean. I was listening to the Wishbone Ash Argus album and the bass is so right I had to switch from playing air guitar to air bass.
I highly recommend the 1502 and is perfect fit for Jubilees.
I would have to agree! Loving my 1502!!!
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Beautiful work Mike!
Erik
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Jubes / 1502 No Bass below 30hz
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