Will 12 inch subwoofer be enough for an 18x20 room (with 10 ft cielings)


This is an open floor plan that opens up into a very small kitchen area then narrow hallway. Will this be enough? Room layout dictates I can't have more than one sub.
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I'm using an SVS SB2000 (sealed box) sub in a 320 square foot room with 8' ceilings, in a 2.1 stereo application. This sub is more than adequate for this application. Room placement will be important.

I ended up buying the SVS wireless adapter for the sub, and playing around with room placement for a few weeks until I found the spot where it sounded best to me, and blended well with my mains.

If I could do it all over though, I would go with 2 smaller / identical subs like many people are recommending.



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One sub, ok Tekton 21" bass bin (sub) it has two M/B couplers in it to...

Great box  25 to 300 or so,, 95% + sensitive. 

Regards..
In my limited (only) experience, one subwoofer added the LFE to the movies, but the low bass was localized to the left side of the room. The subwoofer was behind the left speaker. With two subwoofers, the LFE seems to come from all around the room. My vote, at least two. Some folks have recommend four.
I have not read all the posts but:
Will 12 inch subwoofer be enough for an 18x20 room (with 10 ft cielings)
 
In short: no it will not.

Most of us has not since 1933 we know that if you want to be able to HEAR a sinus wavelength at 20Hz when you play at normal 80 db @ 1000 hz. Then you need to play the at 20 hz @ 120 db (!).

So when we study the graphs over what our ears are able to hear and at what sound pressure that is needed to have for us to be able to hear it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-loudness_contour

So the solution is much more cone area is needed and power. Then let a DSP mimic the courve in the link above. Then it is "enough".

I am in progress to building 2 18" that will perhaps rather close to the listening area and my miniDSP will help me. Maybe I will reach my goal. (Oh and it is OB that is another problem with that low efficiency).