Subwoofer for classical music listener


This is my second post on the subject of subwoofers.
My first post wasn't specific enough.
I listen to classical music 90% of the time.
Are there any classical music listeners out there who have subwoofers?
if there are, could you let me know what you have?
i don't imagine I would need quite as powerful or expensive a sub as those who mainly listen to other types of music, but I may be wrong.

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smer319,

             "Only REL subs work well."
Prove it.... That is, prove it without B.S.ing all the fine people of this thread. 

Two ideas regarding subs that I consider very true and important are:

1- You shouldn’t hear a sub. A good subwoofer placed optimally in a room should just make the loudspeaker it is augmenting sound as if it now has response to a lower frequency. It should be invisible.

2- It is often the eigenmodes of the room you are hearing when adding a sub to a loudspeaker, the lower frequencies now reproduced exciting the rooms resonant modes, rather than the sub itself. "Room boom" is often incorrectly attributed to the sub(s).

The best way to minimize both the above is to employ dipole subs, rather than monopoles. A dipole sub excites fewer room modes (no sidewall-to-sidewall, dipoles having a null to either side), leading to fewer standing waves. The Magneplanar Tympani bass panel is a great, musical sub, as is the GR Research/Rythmik OB/Dipole Direct Servo-Feedback Sub.

I'm new to the Audiogon forums, but I too have a sub situation.  I currently have an SVS SB2000 running with my MA Silver 8s (Emotiva XSP-1 pre/XPA-2 amp).  Was planning to grab a second SB2000 but now thinking about upgrading to the SVS Ultra 13 and pairing it with my current SB2000...honestly I'm not sure what is best.  I primarily listen to large scale symphonic works (e.g. Bruckner, Mahler, etc.) so I'm not sure the SB2000 is really cutting it.  I have a pretty ungainly listening space: 24x12x15 ceiling.  This is not a "forever home" but non the less where I am now.  Any thoughts?
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