Velodyne DIGITAL DRIVE SMS-1 Specifications

Secrets Product Review Velodyne SMS-1 Digital Drive Subwoofer Management System Part I December, 2005 Roger Welch Introduction When Velodyne

Realizing that there are some customers who will not want to get into the intricacies of the manual EQ set-up straight away, Velodyne equipped the SMS

That represents a further incremental improvement, and if I didn’t want to venture any further into the set-up process, I could just decide to leave

Secrets Product Review Velodyne SMS-1 Digital Drive Subwoofer Management System Part V December, 2005 Roger Welch The next level of automation

processes. The SMS-1 had chosen to apply a +6 dB boost at 20 Hz to try and raise the response where the sub is naturally starting to roll off. Applyin

From experience, I know that the 85 Hz dip in my room cannot be corrected by applying an EQ boost even if I were to set my crossover higher and use

Secrets Product Review Velodyne SMS-1 Digital Drive Subwoofer Management System Part VI December, 2005 Roger Welch There are just a few more f

can be used to boost (or cut) a single band around a specific frequency. For example, with the factory default settings, Preset 1 (Action/Adventure) h

This is by no means the fault of the SMS-1. Even without it, I could have produced a similar effect by running the sub too hot. Nor is it a criticism

engaging the services of a professional audio calibrator using expensive instrumentation to optimize the placement of the subwoofer(s) and/or employ s

Next come three LFE Output RCA sockets that can be used to connect up to three subwoofers. Each produces an identical signal. Composite and S-Video TV

Secrets Product Review Velodyne SMS-1 Digital Drive Subwoofer Management System Part II December, 2005 Roger Welch Set-up The SMS-1 can be co

I configured for stereo use with bass management. I kept the 63 Hz, 24 dB/octave crossover and slope settings that I normally use in the SSP with my f

Secrets Product Review Velodyne SMS-1 Digital Drive Subwoofer Management System Part III December, 2005 Roger Welch I had previously determine

Since several of the peaks and dips in this response are significantly above the crossover frequency (63 Hz), the SMS-1 will be powerless to do anyt

reversed. I next turned the main speakers back on and proceeded to smooth the response around the crossover frequency using the polarity, phase and l

Secrets Product Review Velodyne SMS-1 Digital Drive Subwoofer Management System Part IV December, 2005 Roger Welch Equalization There are a n