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Best Home Theater sub or subs for a large room

I am building a dedicated large home theater. The dimensions are going to be 32 feet by 25 feet. There will be three levels of seating. The back of the room will have an 8 foot ceiling. The front will have an 11 foot ceiling.

How many subs?
Which ones are recommended?
Where would you place them?

I would like to spend less than $2500 for the sub or subs.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The room is modeled after a theater at Bradfordwells.com. See:
http://www.bradfordwells.com/theater2.html

Cheers!
wshah
sogood51
2,157 posts
 
Nice room!...I'd probably want 6 subs in that room. Two front, two side wall, two rear.

Eight would be even better. (forget the $2,500...IMHO)...although, you could get 6 HSU Research subs for around $3,500.

Dave
audiooracle
387 posts
 

The Jl Audio F 113 is an easy answer. It is extremely powerful with the tightest low bass response around it is a bit more expensive than what you mentioned but it is winning awards
left and right for the quantity and quality of the bass.

You are better off paying less for your theater seats and getting great components.
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kennyt
1,226 posts
 
While I must agree with Dave that you'd be better off with several subs (I'd personally use four) if you really want one to fill the room for that price, I'd consider the Definitive Technology Trinity sub. This thing was designed to fill a church and can output something sick like 128 dB @ 20 Hz! It's $3K retail, but I bert you could get it for $2,500 and it will definitely fill your room!
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