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Dual vs single sub

Sorry Im sure this is all over the forums but I only found old articles. Situation. I have Two SVS 3000s that arent really doing it for me. Thinking of trading it in on the Big one and adding another in a year or so. Any thoughts on Big single vs 2 Medium?
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audiokinesis1,922 posts03-31-2019 1:00pm

"The Ford Motor Company?"

Ford hired Dr. Earl Geddes as a consultant. One of the questions he wanted to know the answer to was how common is it for CD's to have stereo bass content. He asked everyone in the department to bring in their CD's. After testing about a hundred CD's and not finding a single one with stereo content in the bass region, he stopped testing.  So no Ford did not test virtually all recordings, but the sample size was large enough for Earl to reliably conclude that stereo bass on CD's is quite rare.

Duke

>>>>>I don’t believe it. No offense to you personally.
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"I don’t believe it. No offense to you personally."

Could you clarify?  What exactly do you not believe? And, no offense to you personally either.


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I don’t believe that virtually all CDs have bass frequencies summed. 
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"I don’t believe that virtually all CDs have bass frequencies summed."

That’s okay. I didn’t either and argued with Earl about it. I forget the details of what he said but he had been sufficiently thorough in his investigation to change my mind.

It’s easy enough to do stereo bass anyway if you want to.

Duke


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Exactly! I’ll take the stereo bass. It sounds better. It’s like compression. I realize engineers compress the life out of CDs these days. I don’t listen to compressed CDs. 
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