Svs sb17-ultra for music

Here is the right type of subwoofer for your speaker.

Tekton C sub

https://tektondesign.com/product/subwoofers/cinema-sub/#color

Absolutely not a joke.. It was designed for music (and movies too)... I currently have a pair...very different design ethos, gets down below 20 hz, sounds nothing like the crap ported subs you may have heard.

On the same note, it is not your regular sub driver either. 300 watts is more than enough before it blew your pants off.

There are some jbl guys who like to diy horn loaded subs, etc. This would be a better option on the cheap, imo.

(Cons: it is huge, not for WAF living rooms, but, if the dude has a jbl 4367, he probably doesn't have WAF issues)

I’m hoping the post about the Tekton "Cinema" sub was either a joke or a troll post. A 300 watt ported sub that appears to be designed for home theater is not what you want.

(Facepalm), if a guy’s ’plugging ports’, he probably shouldn’t even get a jbl 4367 and stick with some ls50 or similar matchbox speaker (guessing that’s how you roll).

Any speaker with low enough bass extension, ’full range’ will cause standing waves. Subs placed in the right location and dialed in corrextly will "fix" them.

Personally I would avoid any subwoofer that uses a passive radiator. Based on that reason alone I would choose the SVS. I agree with Big Greg that a subwoofer is going to excite the nodes/standing waves of your room, so you might want to have a plan as to how you want to deal with them. You will also want to plug the ports on the JBL’s

@phusis , I need to build one of the horns, maybe something along these lines and try to get lower extension

https://www.pioneerproaudio.com/en/products/xy-series/xy-218hs

On a different note, the tekton definitely gets under 20 (not some exaggerated spec). As I mentioned, it’s a solution "on the cheap" with some phenomenal bass for his speaker design.

Horn-loaded subs are altogether different beasts and bigger still. From my chair there are no better "audiophile" subs than horn-loaded variants when it comes to smooth, layered, effortless and enveloping bass reproduction. They’re both less conspicuous in the mix and more shaking-the-air crazy powerful when called for, whereas direct radiation subs make themselves more known overall. The latter can be a quality to some ears with its more "thumping" and animating character, whereas horn subs have a more fluid omnipresence of bass.