A small review about my budget setup.
Now many have 5.1 setup and I am kind of crazy guy with only 3.1 setup for now.
AVR : Tiny Yamaha 667
Fronts : Paradigm monitor 7s V6
Center : Paradigm CC 190
Sub : You all know.

Cables : Chord silverscreen , Audioquest SW cable.
Source : TS +HD
Duet : (Not configured yet)
PS3 : Games and Bluray only.
Dabba PC : HTPC (If I may say)
After un-boxing the sub-woofer I ran YPAO setup on my AVR , which probably will never ever be correct considering my living room condition. I was completely lost searching for Bass.......

...Later with the help of Flash and Spiro , I did the manual setup .
1St test : Fronts set as small , center large and sub xover to 80 with level and xover on sub to max. Bass -6db (YPAO)
Completely disappointed with the output. Occasional bass and fronts started sounding like satellites.
You can say I was googling for the bass I wanted.
2nd test : Fronts large , center large and sub xover to 90/100 with sub level 40% and xover to max , Bass +3db(Mypao)

. And suddenly there was a THUD sound. Others may have got a heart attack but I was jumping. :yahoo:
With same settings on I re-ran the YPAO setup.... This time yamaha finally listened to the owner and it started showing me the real bass.
As a ritual I started with my fav songs from DOORS (Many call gebberish). To each its own. I was completely in a diff world.. Next comes our very own Floyd baba . Over all very happy . Ended the session with Hotel California.
Next day the session continued with movies . Transporter , Black-hawk down, Dark Night (For madhu_7) and Inception. I felt like I was there in the movie in each of the scene. Superb .................:yahoo: , By then all my neighbors started hating me to the core. Clean bass , a little thumpy and occasional boom which probably need to be tamed down by the right placement.
Over all very happy with the purchase. I would post more technical review after I conclude what settings are right and still the placement testing is in progress. Some times I feel corner is good another time center position.
Summary : This is a great subwoofer for movies and pretty decent sub for music. Although not very punchy like Velodyne CHT , this one is little thumpy. Too early to conclude, but as every one say "First impression is best impression" . At 21k landing cost with 400Watt Rms and Peak 700Watt power, who dares to complain?
More to follow. Please post questions regarding this here and no PM's.
Happy Weekend.
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