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Subwoofer pairing with new Magnepan .7's

Greetings! I've just set up my new Magenapan .7's speakers and are really enjoying them. I'm feeling that they would benefit from some bass augmentation. I'm asking what subwoofer pairing have been successful with Magnepan speakers? My amp is a Rogue Sphinx currently. 
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beernut OP
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Thanks all for the great input! I will explore these options in more depth...
honeybee2012
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I think SVS gives you a 45 day home trial......what could go wrong?
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sunshdw
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I'll probably get laughed at for this..........
We used a pair of the B&W PV1D subwoofers with a pair of 1.7's were I used to work. Once tweaked we were all really surprised of how well they worked together.
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Thanks for that idea...
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georgehifi
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beernut

For ESL’s and Planer speakers, because they are fast, you need fast sub woofer/s.

"Generally" I would go with smaller 8’-10" rather than larger 12"-15" diameter, as smaller ones that are designed right, should in theory be faster and able to keep up with ESL/Planer type speakers better, also ones that have motional feedback circuits would be good to look at. Isobaric’ed ones are also fast, but are rare, and expensive.

There’s nothing worse than a sub that’s slow and can’t keep up with the mains


Cheers George

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