PB12NSD

Powered Box Sub, 12" NSD Woofer

Ported Box Subwoofers:
PB13Ultra
PB12Plus
PB12NSD
PB10NSD

Sealed Box Subwoofers
SB16Ultra
SB13Plus
SB12Plus

Ported Cylinder Subwoofers:
PC13Ultra
PC12Plus
PC12NSD

Subwoofer Equalizer

Accessories

         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
• Removable grill with chrome mounting pins
• 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).
• Heavy-duty removable 8 foot power cord
• Assembled in the SVS factory, Ohio, USA
• "Seamless" cabinet design
• +/-3dB 18Hz-200hz anechoic extension
• Size: 18" wide  x 21" high x 25" deep. 
• Weight: 74 pounds
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And whereas the PB10-NSD provides only for hookup to Dolby Digital surround receivers, the PB12-NSD gives you the ability to do that, and hook to virtually ANY sort of system you might have. An old stereo system, even one with only speaker outputs? No problem for this sub.

How's 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.

No subwoofer brand ever seriously challenged the amazing performance of this sub's predecessor, but we don't take chances at SVS. We "super- sized" the world-beater PB10-NSD, and ensured the new PB12-NSD could enter our successful export lines for customers outside the USA too (special 220V export models are always more costly to build and ship however).

Please note that due to exceptional increases in raw material and transport costs, many product prices are expected to be going up in the weeks to come. So don't wait long for the latest in affordable big box powered subwoofers from SVS.

There are scores, maybe hundreds of subs in this price category, but none will provide you better performance or value. None. And lest we forget, service for many is as important as the product itself. The PB12-NSD, like all SVS products comes with lifetime technical support, a bumper to bumper 3 year warranty, and 7 day a week on-line support.

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 improvement, despite the subtle change in nomenclature (some say it's "NSD" for "New Standard Woofer", others simply note that "N" comes after "I" in the dictionary... both would be right).

And good as the ISD is/was, 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 that 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 new SVS drivers its 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 take on a whole new dimension.

• SVS designed, US-built, high-temp aluminum 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 dustcap

• 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, its 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 drivers 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.  Get the BASH advantage on your SVS now.

More on BASH

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 Class of its 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 at 100 Watts should be able to deliver 20 Watts continuously. If the same amplifier is to play musical transients that are 10dB louder than its 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 300% higher, and the resulting power dissipated at 20 watts output 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.

Click here to read more on BASH® technology

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 its state of the art  “plate amp” and mounting it flush, safe and secure in one of the nicest looking and best built box subwoofer enclosures in the world. With twin internal CNC'd braces, countless designs were tested and what finally made the cut was something so robust, so effective and so elegant that SVS simply 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 one 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 to 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 features 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.

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 port flush mounted (using CNC machining of course) 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,  and subwoofer location.