mystik610
April 19th, 2010, 7:29 AM
I got my VTF-3 back in July of 2009, and for a couple of months there-after, I was playing with it, tweaking it, and listening to it very analytically. I got to know the sub very well...I knew its strength's and its weaknesses..I knew how far I could push it, and in my very large living-room, I could easily push this thing to its limits, despite how beastly it is. It took me a while, but after tinkering for a couple of months, I was able to get the ideal set-up, and eventually just left the sub alone.
Flash forward a couple of months....I add a new center channel and begin listening to my system analytically again...pushing things up to reference level, and seeing what my system was made of. One thing I noticed is how much more alive the sub was...it was more accurate and prominent. I threw in some old sub-woofer bench-marking material (Iron Man, Dark Knight), cranked it up a little higher, and scenes that used to make my sub distort, are now handled very cleanly. There were scenes that I winced while watching, knowing that these scenes had made my sub pop violently in the past, but the VTF-3 handled all of them just fine.
On Saturday I sat down with the Lord of the Rings, and just for kicks, watched most of the movie at -15 reference. After watching the Balrog scene my left ear (sub sits to the left of my listenign area) was ringing slightly from all the bass :) . I don't do things like that a lot, but I was home alone, and able to fully appreciate my sub...I'm in love with it again.
I re-calibrated my system, and am able to run my sub at a level that I wasn't able to previously without hearing any distortion. Now the VTF-3 is set loud enough to shake the whole house, but not so loud that it drowns out the rest of my system. Its as loud as I care for it to be, and I'm not hearing the slightest bit of distortion.
Flash forward a couple of months....I add a new center channel and begin listening to my system analytically again...pushing things up to reference level, and seeing what my system was made of. One thing I noticed is how much more alive the sub was...it was more accurate and prominent. I threw in some old sub-woofer bench-marking material (Iron Man, Dark Knight), cranked it up a little higher, and scenes that used to make my sub distort, are now handled very cleanly. There were scenes that I winced while watching, knowing that these scenes had made my sub pop violently in the past, but the VTF-3 handled all of them just fine.
On Saturday I sat down with the Lord of the Rings, and just for kicks, watched most of the movie at -15 reference. After watching the Balrog scene my left ear (sub sits to the left of my listenign area) was ringing slightly from all the bass :) . I don't do things like that a lot, but I was home alone, and able to fully appreciate my sub...I'm in love with it again.
I re-calibrated my system, and am able to run my sub at a level that I wasn't able to previously without hearing any distortion. Now the VTF-3 is set loud enough to shake the whole house, but not so loud that it drowns out the rest of my system. Its as loud as I care for it to be, and I'm not hearing the slightest bit of distortion.