SVS is a name that you the seasoned surround enthusiast does not have to propose. A range of award-winning subwoofers have fully established its position as a premium earthquake generator builder. In this review we also look at a subwoofer, but a very special one. This PC – 2000 Pro has a small footprint, but is by no means a mini performer.

Most subwoofers on the market are square boxes, with one or two woofers that face outward and with an open or closed enclosure. Every now and then you will also find one with a driver that faces the floor. However, the PC – 2000 Pro is something completely different. It presents itself as a large, anonymous cylinder slightly more than 86 cm high . That seems like a lot, but because the footprint is a diameter of 42 cm the visual impact is not too bad. Apart from the acoustic benefits of this shape, the PC – 2000 Pro is all about that (relatively) unobtrusive profile. You can put this SVS in places where a classic sub might not fit, also because you can use it in an open or closed mode. This makes the PC – 2000 Pro perhaps an attractive option for music lovers who want to take the step to 2.1. You can lose one or two of these barrels in a larger listening room in the area behind your speakers.

SVS’s promise is that the special shape will not affect performance. The PC – 2000 Pro, which is for 1. 099 euro is in the store, contains a 12 – inch long throw woofer that promises up to 16 Hz deep and has a power rating of 550 Watt (1. 500 Watt peak). That all sounds really promising, but does the subwoofer deliver? Does it have the LFE performance needed to make a movie night thunderous and at the same time the subtlety to accompany a set of good stereo speakers when you want to listen to music?

Award Winning Series The PC – 2000 Pro is part of the new 2000 SVS Pro range. As is often the case with the American brand, this family consists of three members: an open housing version (PB – 2000 Pro), a closed model (SB – 2000 Pro) and then this sub with barrel shape. The idea is that if you are looking for certain performance at a certain price point, there is always a model that suits your setup. The performance level of the 2000 Pro family earned SVS another EISA Award for best subwoofer this summer.

SVS is indeed much more than a subwoofer builder â ???? see also the previous review of the SVS Ultra bookshelf speakers â ???? but it is with this category that the company established its image. Very well known are the excellent top models, such as the ultimate (and also gigantic) SB – 4000 and the SB – 3000, but we also looked at a smaller budget model, the SB – 1000 (more reviews here). The 2000 Pro range is clearly in a higher category and features features of those larger SVS subs. We consider the DSP control via an app an important plus. But equally important, the 2000 Pro subwoofers still have a â ???? normalâ ???? format. They are subwoofers that deliver good performance but are not the subwoofer equivalent of an American pickup.

Well insulated The PC – 2000 Pro arrives in a pretty big box with “two man job” in it. shines. Since previous tests of SVS subwoofers turned out to carry quite a few kilograms, we were already mentally prepared for a weightlifting session. Strangely enough, and despite the warnings, this time it was really not too bad. You have to be careful when you take the device out of the box, but otherwise it was easy to move. It does help if you have longer arms.

What immediately stands out is how anonymous that PC – 2000 Pro is. It is really a cylinder, almost completely wrapped in a dark speaker fabric. Our test model had a glossy black finish. Very nice and it gives some class to this device, but of course it also catches some dust. Even in a home cinema that is only partially darkened, the device will completely blend into the background, we suspect.

We find the provided legs positive. It may seem like a detail, but with a subwoofer, good acoustic decoupling is crucial on some surfaces. Those two-piece SoundPath feet transfer less vibrations to the floor, which reduces the chance of noise and complaints from neighbors. In our test room we have a wooden plank floor, and those feet are really a good idea there. They’re important for another reason too: the PC design – 2000 Pro requires it to be an inch above the ground floats because it has a 12 – inch woofer that points down and makes a very large movement.

As an experiment, we placed the SVS on a high-pile mat that we have in the test room to dampen the room. The difference was immediately noticeable â ???? much more muted, much drier – which of course makes perfect sense. We also found how inert the housing remained, even with the racing scene of â ???? Ready Player Oneâ ?? ?? which we often use as a benchmark for Atmos performance. In that hectic fragment there are heavy bass effects, for example when King Kong appears on the stage, but even at a very high volume level we couldn’t really feel any disturbing vibrations on the PC – 2000 Pro Box.

Open or closed Despite its round shape the PC – 2000 Pro has a back cover. Here you will find the necessary connections in the form of a stereo cinch. You use the right one if you only want to reproduce the LFE channel in a surround mix, both if you want to connect the subwoofer to a stereo amplifier without a dedicated sub-out. Because two subwoofers are not overkill at all â ???? here fits a broadly grinning emoticon â ???? but a smart move in stereo reproduction, there is also a cinch pair as output. So you can daisy-chain PC – 2000 Pro with a second sub.

Via an ingenious button system supplemented with a series of LEDs, you can also set things like the volume, phase and crossover point. That is pretty easy, but you can also do all of this via an app. That works a lot better â ???? and you get a lot of options.

At the back we also find a bass port, connected to a long bass reflex tube that runs internally thanks to a kink almost to the top of the subwoofer. Out of the box, the PC – 2000 Pro is therefore an open sub, but you can also close the port completely. In the app you choose â ???? sealedâ ????. That will cost you a little bit at the bottom of the bass reproduction, but can make the reproduction tighter. It partly depends on the room characteristics and where you place the device. Close to a corner we would try with the gate closed anyway, maybe that contains more.

Great app- control The extensive DSP control via an app is in our opinion the secret weapon of SVS. It is available on a lot of their subwoofers, including the PC – 2000 Pro. Where some rivals bet on a total solution via a room measurement, SVS prefers to give you extensive control via this app and to leave any room correction to your AV receiver or smart amplifier.

The SVS app gives you many options but remains easy to use. On our Huawei P 30 Pro, the app itself detected the subwoofer (via Bluetooth LE) and the connection was established in a few seconds. That connection also remains active so that you do not always have to wait until your smartphone can communicate with your subwoofer. Another detail, but if you are busy setting up your listening room and listening critically, it is nice if you can quickly adjust something and not have to wait a few seconds each time. A human is an impatient animal, right?

The main screen of the SVS app takes you straight to the essentials: the volume control. You can also load a preset, a custom movie, music playback profile or the default SVS preset. It is also possible to set your own preset.

If you dive a little deeper into the SVS app, you can set everything you can think of. Things like the low-pass filter point and phase are fairly standard, but the parametric equalizer and room gain compensation in particular are handy things with which a fine tuner is much. In our experience, RGC is very useful in a smaller room. Of course, the added value of these two functions is slightly more limited if you work with a room correction system, but when you adjust a subwoofer to a stereo system, you do not always have that. Smart stereo amplifiers such as the NAD M 33 or Arcam SA – 30 have something like Dirac on board, but most of â? ??? pureâ ???? amplifiers not.

Multitest We visited the PC – 2000 Pro for a long time, which allowed us to put it in a number of setups to try out. The longest we have used the SVS with our fixed surround setup consisting of a Denon AVR-X 6300 H and a 5.1.4- set based on DALI Rubicon and Alteco. The front channels are provided by two Rubicon LCRs, in-wall speakers that provide “hi-fi”. but best supported by a subwoofer. According to THX standards, it is best to select a crossover point at 80 Hz , but with these speakers it is smarter to aim a little higher. This is quickly set via the receiver (including room measurement via Audessey), but it is nice to set it a little higher on the receiver and then fine-tune it a bit while listening via the SVS app.

The scene from “Ready Player One”. is an excellent measure of the performance of a subwoofer. There is so much going on in terms of sound effects in a few minutes of film, it’s actually incredible. There are heavy effects with a lot of impact, such as cars and trains crashing or a T-Rex attacking the racers, as well as many subtle things, such as the squeak of train brakes and gold coins that are collected by gamers while ringing. The Audessey measurement has ensured a good integration, making the PC – 2000 Pro fierce but not overwhelming . You also immediately hear the difference when you switch between the presets â ???? filmâ ???? and “music”, it is not subtle and it is effective. In movie mode, the ultra-low gets a bit more body and is also more smeared, which is fine with an action movie like this one. You can also push the PC – 2000 Pro very far; also at very high volumes it will not let you down.

It is just as good as the more classic 2000 Pro models? Hard to say because we haven’t heard one next to the other, but we’ve always been impressed by the closed SVS subs that come off as powerful as they are tight. Our feelings also say that the PC – 2000 Pro is just a bit more subtle, which with some movies (and music) a plus. At â ???? 1917 â ????, Sam Mendes’ WWI masterpiece that seemingly recorded in one gigantic take, the SVS provides just enough support for the ominous soundtrack as the two main characters crawl through no man’s land. It’s partly in the integration of course, ma At the same time, this cylindrical subwoofer also shows the added value of a slightly more expensive sub at such a time. Should we also say, somehow we got the impression that the PC – 2000 Pro in a smoother way. Maybe that’s because of the downward firing woofer, but as we walked around the room, the bass experience remained consistent.

We also listened to music via the Denon in 2.1, with an Oppo UDP – 203 as Roon Ready source. To â ???? Gold Junkiesâ ???? from Melanie De Biasio, for example, with his nervous bass drum that delivers the SVS perfectly and tightly in music mode. On the track before that, Your Freedom is th