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Subwoofers JL Audio Fathom f212 Subwoofer
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| JL Audio Fathom f212 Subwoofer |
| Written by John E. Johnson, Jr. |
| Sunday, 02 November 2008 17:00 |
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Conclusions JL Audio's new Fathom f212 subwoofer is an astonishing product. Their years of building car audio subwoofers that you can hear a block away have paid off in this subwoofer meant for audio and home theater applications. It is expensive, but notwithstanding, even just one of these subs will satisfy the most critical of home theater aficionados. The f212 is one of the finest subwoofers in the world. Comments (10)
The organ "stops" here....
written by jmilton7043 , November 04, 2008 Aristide Cavaillé-Coll would have used this sub if he had invented a digital version of his wonderful "Romantic" opus!
f212 output
written by wrdds , November 10, 2008 I have been eagerly awaiting a review of this product. Yours is the first I have seen. Congratulations! In your lab measurements were you able to measure the subs output throughout its frequency range?
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written by JEJ , November 10, 2008 The sub's output throughout its frequency range is the frequency response. That is shown in the botttom graph on Page 3 of the review.
f212 output
written by wrdds , November 10, 2008 Sorry, to be more specific what I was looking for was max output, or max output at a specified distortion, or frequency where compression occurs vs output
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written by JEJ , November 11, 2008 We didn't measure maximum output. No reason to with a subwoofer this size. It would have cracked the walls in our lab to turn it up all the way. Max output tests are more useful with small subs that have limitations within the range of output that you might actually be using in your home theater (90 - 100 dB). We measure distortion for individual frequencies at 100 dB output, compared to some who measure output of a frequency at 10% distortion. With huge subs like the f212, it puts out enormous amounts of deep clean bass no matter how you measure it.
highpass filtering defeatable?
written by martin b. , January 10, 2009 the rolloff below 20 Hz is the only nitpick i have. Of course output above that with two units is all even diehards would need.
EQ in master/slave
written by David H , January 16, 2009 Did you experiment which gave you better results, using the ARO per sub, or doing the ARO together with both subs one in master and the other in slave?
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written by JEJ , January 16, 2009 I only listened to them as stereo left right subs, with each one having its own ARO. I didn't listen to them as a mono channel master and slave setup. Write comment
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