Darla tapping on the fist tank bottom out my boston

[davidwsu1]

I don't have a sub right now, but a PB2+ is on its way. I was watching Finding Nemo the other day and when Darla tapped on the fish tank. There was a lound clacking noise comming from my front speakers.

Did anyone bottom out their speakers at the same scene???

I have been getting some great advice from Chris and Scarp on how to set up my sub when I get it. really appreciated guys.


David

[Chris D]

:LOL: I found this to be amusing, only because I know EXACTLY what you're talking about. Great movie. Her tapping on the glass catches you off guard, both visually and audibly. If you have a good subwoofer, you get pounded in the chest as she taps on the glass. (that little snot...)

I think you'll be happy with your new sub when it shows up, David. No more bottoming out for you!




CHRIS
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[Scarp]

I never had my speakers bottom out, but I'm not running everything that loud, since I live in an appartment.

What volume level are you running?

If I where you I would be careful about doing that again. What you can do in the mean time is play around with the bass limiter to prevent something like this happening again.

[davidwsu1]

Scarp,

My master volume wat at -10 when I heard the clacking noise. I immediately decrease the volume to -15 after that.

We watch Bad Boys II last night at -15 and the speakers handle it very well. I don't really know that much about base limiter. so I will keep my master volume below -15 until I get my pb2+ in.

I was over in hometheaterspot.com and some guy actually bottom out his bp2+ on the same exact scene. But he was also doing some demo bass dvd for his buddies too. That may have contribute to it.

David

[Scarp]

Take a look at the manual.

There is a bass limiter function on the C1/C2. This allows you to let your C1/C2 to cut off the bass above a certain level. This will prevent harm to your speakers. Setup is simple. You can turn on a test noise that the Controller generates, then increase the cut off volume until you reach a level that sounds uncomfortable to your speakers.

Then next time when a hard bass sound is emitted by a scene in a movie, it will simply roll off that loud sound a bit.

Once your subwoofer is arrived you can probably turn it off again.

Remember to check your settings and autocalibrate your system again once you got your subwoofer setup.

Btw... -10 is quite loud ... but then again I never go higher than -30 in my appartment :)

[efarstad]

Chris and his wife came over last Sunday and we watched that "tapping" on the glass scene! 8O That was some serious/fun bass! And David...you're going to love what that PB2+ does for movies...I have two SVS subs and love em!

E




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