Hey I'm JR, training manager here at Crutchfield and these are SVS 1000 Pro Series subs, the
SB-1000 Pro and the PB-1000 Pro. Sealed and ported. I've had the pleasure of taking both of these
subs home to my house, I spent four days with them listening to music and watching movies,
so everything I'm going to tell you about these subs based on what I thought about how
they sounded in my house. They are an upgrade over the existing 1000 Series subwoofers. They
both have 12-inch high-excursion woofers, and I can tell you I really put those to the test.
I was running a test tone generator as well as listening to some music and movies very
loud, and these subwoofers do move, they move a lot of air, and they do it really well and
very precise. Those 12-inch high-excursion woofers are powered by a 325-watt Sledge amp. It's
the same amp in the sealed and the ported sub, and these amps are really cool. They combine two
really cool technologies: class D amplification, which is highly efficient, makes a
lot of power without using a lot of current from the wall and doesn't waste a lot of power
as heat, and it uses discrete MOSFET outputs, which makes sure the sound is nice and clean
and distortion-free. SVS paid a lot of attention to the build on the cabinets themselves. The
way they are improved over the existing 1000 Series is with internal bracing. The purpose
of that is to keep the cabinets from flexing or vibrating when the bass is hitting, 'cause
anytime the actual cabinet moves or vibrates, you lose bass. And so these are very rigidly built to make sure
that all the sound is forced out of the front of the subs right into your listening room.
Let's talk specs for a moment. The frequency response on these boxes, we'll start with the
sealed, is all the way from 20 Hz up to 270 Hz, which means it's capable of playing
the lowest bass you can possibly hear. Now a lot the bass in music doesn't go that low,
but there are certainly instruments and resonant frequencies that do go that low, and this sealed
version of the sub will definitely give you accurate bass all the way down to 20 Hz.
If you want to go even lower than that, the ported box might be for you. It goes all the
way down to 17 Hz, which is technically lower than human hearing, and you really are
feeling it. I felt the frame of my couch working loose when this thing was really rumbling
at its lowest point. Like I mentioned earlier, I did take both of these subs home. I've had
them there for the last 4 days, I took the existing subwoofer that I normally use out
and replaced it with each of these one at a time. Getting them hooked up was fairly easy,
I just plugged him into power using my surge protector, I plugged them into the LFE output
of my home theater receiver, I downloaded the SVS subwoofer app and used that to control
and set up the subs. Now you can do some control right from the back, there is an intelligent
control panel with LED lights and buttons, very intuitive and very easy to use, but it's
not as good as being able to do it from the comfort of your couch, your actual listening
position. So I sat there with my app on my phone, and I was able to dial in the volume,
the preset EQ curves, adjust the room gain, the phase of the subwoofers, and basically
just change all the settings until I was very happy with the sound. I did that for each of
the subwoofers so they were tuned to my liking in my room. So let's talk about how they actually
sounded. For me at my house, I started with the SB-1000 Pro, the sealed box, and I played
a bunch of different stuff, some scenes from movies and some music, and what I found was
I love the subwoofer for music. It is incredibly articulate. For a 12-inch woofer to be so precise,
to be able to give me tight, accurate bass on bass guitar notes, kick drum...I'm a drummer,
so I pay a lot of attention to the sound of the kick drum, deep voices, things like that.
Articulate bass down to 20 Hz, it's not just a frequency response specification, it's for real. It really sounded
good, and I tried a bunch of different types of music. OutKast's The Way You Move, a lot of
great, deep rumbly bass there; ZZ Ward's Cannonball, a little bit more articulate bass; Sturgill
Simpson, whose recordings range from very clean recordings of bluegrass to very dirty, grungy
rock and roll on Sound and Fury, and this thing had no trouble playing any and all bass
that I wanted from any and all of those recordings. It was great, I thoroughly enjoyed
it, and then I switched it over to movies, and it did fine playing movies as well: lots of
rumble, lots of hard-hitting effects. When things exploded you could really feel it. And then
I hooked up the ported box, and that's when movies were taken to the next level for me.
Its ported design with those two ports on the front allows it to move a lot more air
and be a lot more efficient. It also gets down to 17 Hz. And from movies, home theater, if you're
watching a big action movie...I watched a bunch. I watched Ready Player One, I watched a couple
of the new Star Wars, the sequel trilogy movies, where there's a lot of great sound
effects in there. In Ready Player One for example, there's a couple of scenes that I go to anytime
I'm testing out a subwoofer. The race scene towards the beginning of the movie, lots and
lots of cool effects. The bridge, the the King Kong moving around, you're going to hear a
lot of rumble, and this thing did all of it. Towards the end of the movie, The Cataclysm
goes off...if you seen the movie you know what I'm talking about. I actually, I have a friend
who works at a movie theater, he sets up the audio and video systems in a chain of movie
theaters, and that he told me that at the premiere of Ready Player One the bass in the Cataclysm
scene required so much amplifier juice to give you all the bass in that movie theater
that it actually flipped the breakers in his movie theater. That's how much bass there is
in that scene, so it's a go-to for me if I'm testing a subwoofer, and the PB-1000 Pro
had no trouble giving me rumble like I wouldn't believe in my living room. Certainly much better
than anything I've experienced from my normal 10-inch ported subwoofer that I use on a regular
basis. The PB-1000 Pro, by the way, it comes as you see here with the two ports on the
front which gives you that more efficient, high-impact movie theater type bass, if you
want to tighten it up, though, you can ask SVS to send you some port plugs. They are free
upon request from SVS, you can use those port plugs to seal up those ports and make this
subwoofer a little tighter and a little bit more musical. The subs look great, they do come
with grilles that you can put on them to protect the speakers. However, if you're like me you might
leave the grille in the box and just look at the subs as you're watching
a movie, listening to music, you'll see the excursion on the subwoofers, they're almost as fun to watch as your movie is,
and they look pretty awesome even without the grille. So which one should you get, the sealed
box or the ported box? I enjoyed both, I felt the sealed box was really at its best
when I was playing music, andthe ported box was at its best when I was playing movies.
That's what I would recommend: music, movies. If you do a bunch of both, get one of each!
You can't have you can't go wrong having two subwoofers in your home theater system. Most
home theater receivers have two subwoofer outputs anyway, that's why they're there, so
that you can dial in the exact type of bass for whatever it is you're watching. If you
have one of each, you can't go wrong. So these are the SVS 1000 Pro Series subs. Sealed box
and ported box. If you have any questions about getting the right powered subwoofer for your
home stereo or home theater system, get in touch with us here at Crutchfield. Go to
crutchfield.com/contact, you'll see ways to communicate with our advisors. You can do it live over the phone
or chat with them online, and they can help you get the right subwoofer for your home
theater. You can also post your questions right here on YouTube down in the comment section
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