Eh hem!...Subwoofers... What do ya know?


Subwoofers are a thing.  A thing to love.  A thing to avoid.  A misunderstood thing.  

What are your opinions on subwoofers?  What did you learn and how did you learn it? 


jbhiller
"It really is easy, go big or go home!....  I recently eliminated my sub for my two channel setup. My room constraints wound up creating more problems than I could/want to try to "fix" so I binned it"

geof3,

I guess going big didn't quite work out.
My main system is Apogee Duetta Sigs. They don't go down much below 40-50 Hz, so I added a Paradigm 15 Ref Servo sub - sounded good. Then I added a 2nd 15 Ref Servo sub and it sound great!. I have them wired in stereo and positioned as if they were part of the Apogees - in other words - right next to them. Works for me.
millercarbon2,139 posts12-06-2019 9:01pmAlmost everything people "know" about bass is wrong.
Location with one sub is everything. You can spend a lifetime moving here and there trying in vain to find the magic location with smooth bass. 
Do you have any experience using the Crawl Test for anybody locating less than four subwoofers?

I could go on and on. Which I tend to do, both because this is so important as well as its really hard to understand. Took me a few weeks of research to really be sure myself.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. How would you determine crossover frequency and gain with less than four subwoofers?

Subs for music vs Subs for HT. Big difference in what you trying to accomplish sound wise, IMHO.
I use a large woofer that is not that accurate for HT set up...and two REL T5i's for my big rig. The T5i's are very fast ( therefore they do NOT interfere with my main speakers..which is the goal) and are invisible SQ wise in the blend. What two subs do is exactly what REL states they do, which is to smooth out the response in your room. Unfortunately, setting up two subs is IME a ton more time consuming than setting up just one....but worth it in the long run.
richmos,

I had Duetta Signatures some years ago and they were really something special. They were very current-hungry and I ended up buying a Krell amp to feed them. They also liked lots of space behind them, but the sound was unmatched.