Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Home Theater EP-600 Review thread.

Yeah, I figured "C" would give comparable isolation but would make a mess on your carpet as the EP600 squeezed all the condiments out

Your comments on the improvements from isolating the sub are really interesting. Are you running on a covered concrete floor (ie basement) or a regular interior floor over joists ?

This room has an oak floor over a concrete slab with 2x6's for a "spacer".

I was wondering where he went. Murderer.

And to think I thought 2x6 had disappeared due to a disasterous encounter with "Frankenstein"

Now that I know the truth......

'What the heck is a sub-dude?'

Well I suppose one of these cats may very well be a sub-dude. Great music btw!

Craisub, great assessment on the 600. Just whenever I was thinking about the twin Hsu STF3 MKII setup that Legairre was talking about, you come along and add another twist!

Craig, come on man! We are starving for more comments, impressions, comparisons, and so on! Don't make us beg! Ok, I'll beg! Oh please oh please oh please oh please!!!!!!!!!

Sorry - I have been too jammed with biz stuff the past few days. For movies, we watched "The Wedding Date" and "The Upside of Anger" this week. Not much in the way of bass there ... Maybe a few more things this weekend ...

HaHa! No worries. Completely understandable. Are you able to drive up/fly in for the get together Saturday?

I was hoping too - but there is just too much stuff going on here.

Update time. When we got the EP-600 in, as stated earlier, we had a pair of SVS PB12-Ultra/2's.

We also have been beta-testing the new Velodyne SMS-1, which was hooked up to the SVS. The SMS-1 has been hooked up to the EP-600 for the past two weeks, and we have done a lot of switching between the SVS pair and the EP-600.

Both subwoofers are capable of shaking the room with ease. That being said, the EP-600 is, IMO, a superior reproducer of bass when compared to the SVS. It has a way of responding to bass spectaculars that the SVS misses.

In the past three days, we have watched "The Italian Job", "Constantine", "The Matrix", and "The Fifth Element".

The two subwoofers are equal as far as force on scenes like the explosion which drops the safe into the water early on in "Italian Job", but the EP-600 hits harder in the chest. And when Charlie hits Steve in the restaurant scene, the SVS gives a thud, while the EP-600 give a SMACK that you feel.

This performance repeats itself in other movies, and on music as well.

For now, I will go on record as saying the EP-600 is a better bass machine than is the PB12-Ultra pair, with this caveat: To be REALLY certain, I will be running them both nearfield, to make sure it is not the room which is the deciding factor.