How does adding a second subwoofer improve your systems SQ?

@erik_squires

So it sounds like you’d rather have an internet squabble based on exaggerations, accusations, and maybe even "distaste".

I don’t blame you. That clip I posted kinda makes you want to steer the conversation away from the relative technical merits of bass trapping vs multiple subs, doesn’t it?

In case anyone missed it, just watch for thirty-one seconds, from 37:37 to 38:08 (it’s cued up):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shHY7EHY4MA&feature=youtu.be&t=2257

For the record, I agree with Erik that bass traps are beneficial. I don’t think I have ever said otherwise.

Duke

Gee @audiokinesis

I'm not having a squabble at all.  You said I played a card to discredit a technology and I corrected you. Now you are again taking a curious angle to my very clear and direct statements.  

As I have said, I don't care if people chose a swarm or not.  I do care how people behave in my environment. Calling out poor social behavior for what it is is not playing a card or discrediting a technology.

I suggest in the future if you'd like to carry on undisturbed that you avoid using my name in vain and I'm sure I'd be leaving you alone.

Best,

E

" I’m not having a squabble at all...."

Got it.

Erik, you are fixated on your grievances towards audiophiles who prefer something which is arguably "in competition with" your favorite thing (room treatments), and so you interpret their enthusiasm in the worst possible light:

" 1 - Refusal to accept other solutions are possible or more applicable to specific questions by posters."

Really? "REFUSAL to accept other solutions are POSSIBLE"?? Show me Erik. I think you are exaggerating, and even IF one person did that, why the "distaste" for all?

" 2 - Insistence on the swarm being a solution to everything a poster asks about, regardless of application. "Help I have noise on my left channel." 30 seconds later ... "You need a swarm!" "

This is just immature exaggeration. And if not, then show me, Erik!! 

" 3 - Lying about what other prominent professionals have stated. "

Show me, Erik! Don’t just make a nebulous accusation of lying, show me!

And while you’re at it, maybe explain to Big Greg why your distaste extends to him, because obviously that is the impression you gave him. Or else make it clear that it doesn’t.

I will grant you this, Erik. You successfully drew me into your squabble.

Duke

Erik, you are fixated on your grievances towards audiophiles who prefer something which is arguably

Man who keeps calling me out upset I reply.

Sadly for you I don’t owe you a debate nor do I do research for free. The proof is in the archives. I don’t even know who "Big Greg" is, but honestly don’t care if he thinks I disdain him, so go find yourself a tin whistle and blow it. I would appreciate it if you’d stop deliberately misreading me to claim things not in recent evidence, then attempt to exhaust me with requests for free research. For some one who claims an advanced degree I’m surprised reading comprehension wasn’t actually taught at your schools.

You’ve stated I’ve attempted to discredit the technology. Nowhere is that in evidence. I, again, clarified. Now you want me to prove the behavior I’m objecting to. Puhleese. I don't play the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man merry go round you seem enamored of here.

I suggest you go hawk your products as much as you want to, and name me only if you want my attention. Capiche?

Quote me.

@erik_squires, speaking of straw men and/or reading comprehension, you wrote:

" You’ve stated I’ve attempted to discredit the technology."

No I did not.

I provided TWO quotes wherein you called multi-sub advocates "cultists", and then in a follow-up post I wrote:

" Since bass trap advocate Erik Squires is playing the "cultist" card to discredit multi-sub advocates..."

So I never said that you attempted to discredit the technology, only its advocates. Of course if its advocates are "cultists", with everything that word implies (brain-washed, simple-minded, etc.), that doesn’t exactly bode well for the technology, does it?

Regarding your list of three accusations:

It is the easiest thing in the world to make accusations on an internet forum. They cost you nothing and potentially cost the accused a great deal...

Unless you are asked to back up your accusations, because then your credibility is being challenged.

How about this: You stop the name-calling and drive-by accusations and I’ll leave you alone.

Duke