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PB12-NSD SUBWOOFER
You see it here, the "New PB12-NSD". Quite literally "New and Improved" in every respect and it's poised to take value- oriented music and movie fans to new places. For the price of this sub there are few products which can keep pace with it's accuracy, depth, linearity and effortless dynamics. Even at twice the price there are few subs that compete on all fronts. The SVS "secret"? Selling factory direct allows us to use better components and more costly features than other brands.
Features
- SVS designed/built long-throw 12" driver - Full-featured 325 watt BASH digital amp - Computer Assisted Design (CAD) enclosure - Dual CNC'd internal braces - Three colour choices with removable grill - Front-firing woofer-port for easy installs - Built-in, flush-mount amp configuration - Compliant floor mounts (six) - Patented 4" high-flow flared porting (in and out) - Extra heavy-duty removable 8 foot power cord - "Seamless" cabinet design in three colours - +/-3dB 18Hz - 200Hz anechoic extension - Size - 18" wide x 21" high x 25" deep - Weight - 74 pounds (34kg)
The PB12-NSD now sports the more simple front-firing cabinet design foist seen on the PB-NSD, a patented 4" internal/externally flared port with longer tubing for an even deeper tune, a newly-revised amp and two precision CNC-machined braces.
All this while keeping price and weight in line with our original "Powered Box". So, while we did mess with a good thing, this new PB12-NSD had flatter frequency response, goes deeper and thus is more powerful overall than it's predecessor.
Hows it work then? Stunningly well, which is a saying quite a bit coming from SVS, where "top of class" performance has become commonplace. Scroll on down to the frequency response at the bottom of this page. Smooth, flat and frankly unmatched in the industry. Spin music, movies any sort of audio and this sub goes low, stays clean and looks good doing it too. The heart is the new Ohio-built, SVS designed NSD woofer described more below.
The new cream white and sterling silver versions are great ways to blend in and of cause match the SBS-01 speaker package finishes too.
SVS 12" NSD Woofer
When you are replacing a woofer as tough, as good, and as much a mainstay of our model lines as the venerable award-winning ISD woofer... you take your time and you build something that's a marked improvement in performance and durability, all while holding the line on cost to the extent you can.
The first entry-level 12" woofer good enough to be built by us and in our own rural-Ohio factory no less. It's all SVS in design. And to say the least, it's a marked improvements, despite the subtle change in nomenclature (same say it's "NSD" for "New Sound Woofer", others simple note that "N" comes after "I" in the dictionary... both would be right).
And good as the ISD is this woofer is better still and it's the heart of the new PB12-NSD... More efficient, better frequency response and capable of an even greater pounding... but still sound supremely accurate on anything from Jazz to Jurassic Park. Using dual spiders for the first time, a superlative US made voice coil and superior motor structure, the NSD woofer might not win any beauty contests, but you'll care little about that when you hear how it works. In fact, during nearly two years of development, we gave virtually no costing to cosmetic niceties (the ISD was a good looking woofer for sure -- not that this NSD woofer is any slouch, it's more purposeful and less fancy intentionally then). What you get in return is a woofer actually will run neck and neck with our recently replaced and much more expensive, dB12.2 "Plus" woofer. All at the old prices. Downside? None really
We cherry-picked minor parts and designed all the critical ones ourselves. Like with all the new SVS drivers it's assembled by hand and tested in small batches using state of the art, high tech materials. Put this newest and most affordable SVS creation to the test with your toughest program material and we expect that "entry level" will tale on a whole new dimension.
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Features
- SVS designed, US-built, high-temp aluminium voice coil with Mil-spec polyimide insulation - Double-stacked, select-grade ferrite magnet - Dual, progressive custom spiders with integrated tinsel leads - Heavy-gauge, deep-stamped steel basket - High-excursion, custom NBR surround (Nitrile Buna-N Rubber) - High-strength/low-mass polypropylene SVS cone with inverted dust-cap - Polyamide former-bobbin for max temp tolerance - Low-carbon 1008 steel single-piece T-Yoke and gap plate (electrophoresis finish) - Absolute highest quality acrylic adhesives used throughout - Extra-high efficiency, extended long throw design
325 Watt RMS Built-In BASH Amplifier
This high output full-featured digital switching amp was designed by SVS in partnership with one of the most capable and largest original equipment manufacturers in the world. Built in Canada to exacting standards seldom seen in this price class, it's rugged, clean layout and construction serves as a perfect compliment to SVS Powered Boxes. Quite literally, thousands of man-hours were expended dialing in performance that perfectly matched our NSD woofers and the rest of the sub's enclosure. We even made sure our own logo graced this amp as a reminder that no other subwoofer manufacturer has it. And since you can only get one on your SVS, you won't see them floating around the various "do it yourself" e-tailers either. Isn't it nice to know your amp was made just for your sub.
Don't let the conservative real-world power rating deceive you. Given our latest US-made and the exceptionally efficient SVS box design, the SVS PB12-NSD can embarrass other subwoofers touting thousands of watts.
Variable crossover (with bypass), defeat-able auto-on, high-level and low-level inputs, detachable power cord, continuously variable phase and loads of power, this is one amp you can count on to provide years of accurate, deep and powerful bass. Bet the BASH advantage on you SVS now.
BASH is a proven class of amplification, answering the market needs for efficiency without compromising sound quality. BASH is a patented "High Efficiency Linear Amplifier" circuit topology that has taken the best of Class D and Class AB and created a new Cass of it's own. By combining a fast response power converter with a linear amplifier, BASH is able to maintain both Class AB sonic performance and Class D efficiency.
BASH can produce high power levels without cost penalties typically associated with conventional amplifier designs. A linear amplifier rated a 100 Watts should be able to deliver 20 Watts continuously. If the same amplifier is to play musical transients that are 10dB louder than it's rated power, the amplifier must be able to deliver 1000 Watts dynamically. To deliver such dynamic power would require the internal power supply rails to be 350% higher resulting in increases to heat sinks, power transformer, bulk capacitors, output devices and ultimately increases the cost.
BASH provides customers new solutions, opens new markets, offers greater flexibility and ultimately reduces the cost of amplification.
Flush-mount Amp Configuration
Other little touches that make the PB12-NSD so unique? Well, besides the fact it's packed with components normally only found in subs costing thousands, is the fact SVS sweats little details like taking it's start of the art "plate amp" and mountain it flush, safe and secure in one of the nicest looking and best built box subwoofer enclosures in the world. With twin CNC'd braces, countless designs were tested and what finally made the cut was something robust, so effective and so elegant that SVS simple had to build it. All the advantages of a subwoofer box, with the convenience of an "all in one", built-in amp. That's the PB12-NSD... only available at SVS.
Sure we could import amps from the far East (all ours are made in Canada), or just drop it in a square cut hole as you might find in less carefully made products, all in an effort to cut costs... but this user serviceable amp, like everything we do, is nestled together with precision, simplicity and put together right in our Ohio factory. Costs are always secondary to quality and performance in SVS.
Compliant floor fittings
When
it comes to floor and room interface solutions, SVS easily has the other
guys beat. The woofer and port are both front firing from a common baffle (a
whopping on inch thick!). Internal CNC'd bracing makes the large side-panels
solid as a rock. The narrow profile and front firing design allows you to
tuck your PB12-NSD into tight spaces, with only the power cord and input
cable clearance as a consideration. Underneath, you'll find the PB12-NSD
comes with threaded, removable, ultra-compliant synthetic rubber feet. And
not just four as you might expect, but six to maximize stability and allow
you yo put this sub on any sort of surface. You can remove these costly
fittings if you want to slide the PB12-NSD around a carpeted room to
experiment with different locations; and either reinstall them when you're
done or run without them, they are "blind" airtight fittings even
when the feet are not used. Simple, elegant, just the sort of featured you
expect from SVS.
With the competition, you can expect things like and exposed woofer hitting thick carpeting and/or plastic spiked feet vibrating on hard surfaces (requiring furniture cups or a throw rug to quiet things down). SVS digs deep to ensure you won't be making any apologies for your subwoofer. We know it's a bit old fashioned, but we believe in offering the highest quality components at a fair price, rather than cutting corners just to increase profits. Given thousands and thousands sold all over the world, we think we're on the right track.
Custom Finish and Colour-Keyed Grill
For some folks, the way a sub looks is often as important as it's performance. With the PB12-NSD you give up neither world-class performance or simple, elegant styling. The removable grill covering our exclusive woofer and adjacent port is one of the many little touches defying the affordable price. Take a look at the chrome steel pins for fastening the grill to your sub (vice the typical cheap plastic fittings you have seen before on other brands) With or without this cover in place, your SVS is one hot looking "entry level" sub. We won't tell tell your friends and family it was so affordable if you don't! Now available in sterling silver, cream while and charcoal black, you can slip this overachiever into the most style-conscious decor.
Precision Tuned High-Flow Port
The front-firing PB12-NSD employs a computer-designed and patented high-flow, low-noise, dual-flare port that is made in the USA. While too costly for many brands in this price class, this port is the industry standard in high efficiency vented subwoofer systems and features a 4" inside diameter (ID), gently flaring to a nearly 7" at the outside and inside flares. These huge fittings allow the port to breathe with the effectiveness of much larger and ultimately less practical and less attractive solutions- is it any surprise we use them? SVS even takes the time to have the post flush mounted (using CNC machining of cause) into the PB12-NSD cabinet. Perfectly fitting foam seals are carefully applied by hand in our factory to ensure it is snug and performs like a high end audio component should. At this price point, you'll only get this level of attention and detail from SVS.
Professional Grade Finish, Professional Grade Construction
Some
audio enclosures are made from some pretty cheesy materials. If you are
building the best woofers and amps like we do, you don't put them in a
cabinet that's going to shake, rattle and roll. Or ones that seem like it
was supplied by the lowest bidder without regard to quality. At SVS we don't
cut corners in an effort to increase profits. Instead, we select top-grade
materials that we'd want (and have) in our own homes. Specially shaped and
joined baffles and extra thick enclosure panels, precision cut panels and
bracing and rich looking yet still cost-effective finishes.
Finally, this finish is built for the real world you live in. Unlike less forgiving piano gloss or wood finishes it's virtually impervious to fingerprints, drink rings and dust. Wipe them off with standard glass cleaner now and again and your SVS sub will look like new for years.
Frequency Response Curve
*Unsmoothed, quasi-anechoic frequency response: Measured with high resolution instrumentation (1/60th octave) via "ground plane" technique, outdoors, at two meters distance, a minimum of 70 feet from reflective boundaries.
Note: In-room extension, with corner placement, will typically yield 3 - 5Hz greater linear extension than indicated. Results will vary based on room size, seat distance from your SVS sub and subwoofer location in the room
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