Bookshelf Speakers Sitting On Dual Subs?

Scaling back from dedicated room with audiophile rig into a new home with a great room serving multiple uses. The 8c will sit nicely atop the 3070s about a foot from the brick wall in a room which is open to the second floor, the foyer and the kitchen, and rises from about 8’ on one side to about 20’ on the other. The system is going along a rising 8’-20’ wall, firing across a very asymmetric room. This is a compromise system until a dedicated room appears again. DSP in the subs and the 8c will be this room's best friend. The original question was about the stacking aspect of the 8c on the sub really. I believe that D&Ds DSP correction will even take care of the sub’s behavior when the signal is run through the monitors (even though the 3070s have their own optional DSP). The goal is more bottom octave, and fuller dynamics through the space. I have no doubt that the DSP will do its job, my interest was ore concerning the stacking aspect and, honestly, @normb nailed the landing quite succinctly, I’ll bet.

It will sound very good, but it probably won't be optimal.  Try it and let us know your results.

I believe that D&Ds DSP correction will even take care of the sub’s behavior when the signal is run through the monitors (even though the 3070s have their own optional DSP).

This probably is an overly bold assumption.  If the sub is not in an optimal location and / or its performance is not optimized by its own DSP, relying on an external DSP in attempt to optimizing both main and sub simultaneously would possibly lead to a less desirable setting.  I thought a more logical stepwise approach would be to use the sub's DSP to optimze the sub performance first and then use the D&D DSP to optimize both.  But only you know the best.  This is a quite interesting, educational experiment and please update us on the results. 

I'd say try it!  It wouldn't be that expensive to try. 

After all, full range speakers have woofer, mid, tweeter all in one box... 

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The Elac DSP might allow you to roll the subs frequency response off beginning in the low 40Hz, continue until your down by -6dB in the low 30Hz. The Elac should now act like a -6dB sub-bass speaker. By lowering the Sub-bass speakers volume reduces their affect on exciting a rooms standing wave. People often stack six of them next to their speakers and appear to be quite satisfied. If you don’t know what your missing, well...

https://www.soundstagenetwork.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1889:elac-adante-sub3070-subwoofer&catid=338&Itemid=349

Good luck with it.

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Some equate a lack of cabinet vibration an indication of low distortion. The Elac video of the nickel standing on edge while measuring 7.3 - 28.2 dB of (?) distortion is telling. With some subs .5dB is an average. I’m missing something?