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Did I really need a sub woffer in the first place?

I recently added a subwoffer which I thought would enhance the sound of my 2 channel music system. I have a Rotel amp (380 watts) with the matching Rotel preamp and Rotel CD player and Energy Veritas 2.4 speakers. I bought a REL Britannia B1 subwoffer to enhance the bass.

Well now that I have it set up I'm not that happy with what it adds vs what I spent ($1,850). I'm wishing I would have put that money toward a turntable instead.

Wondering if maybe I've just got it set up incorrectly - there are so many adjustments like Mode Switch used to set the phase and to bypass crossover for Low Level input. Also has these switches:

Lo Level
Hi Level
Fine Roll Off
Coarse Roll Off

For an additional $100 the stereo shop will send a guy over to 'tune' the system. Wondering if I'm just throwing good money after bad and maybe I'll cut my losses and sell it here on the Audiogon classified section.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

Thanks

By the way - I love my Subwoffer I have in my home theatre. Could'nt watch an action movie without it.
breuning11
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bigjoe
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put your sub where your listening chair is then get down on the floor & crawl around the room until you find where the bass response sounds the best then put your sub there.

it works pretty good.
bignerd100
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Ask dealer for a 10 meter long interconnect.
Place sub in all different locations.
Make sure that the crossover on the sub is in the right ballpark before you begin.
In each location get volume level about right, then play with crossover, then play with voume again, then teh phase, then the volume again.
90% science and 10% art.

Good luck!
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shadorne
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Bigjoe and Bignerd100,

I am confused. Which is better?

Putting the sub in Breuning11's listening chair and crawling around on the floor while ajdusting phase and volume for each position.

or

Sitting in the listening chair and moving the sub all around the floor while changing phase and volume for each position.

The crawling around the floor sounds slightly faster to complete (don't have to move the sub), however, if Breuning11 has a better half and she finds him crawling around the floor with his sub-woofer sitting in his normal chair listening chair ....isn't their a chance she will think he has gone mad?
bignerd100
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Either will work but there are more often than not less than four places in a room that you (or more importantly, your wife) can live with the sub. A ten meter cable will give you the freedom of movement to put it anywhere in the room.

Good luck!
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