Jim, Thanks for the DM. Think I will answer here because the answer is great general info most people still don't know about, because it runs against the CW.
All rooms are small relative to the wavelength of the lowest frequencies we want to hear. Those waves are 50 feet long. For those you need a room no smaller than a hundred feet or so in any direction. Any normal house size room the leading edge of the lowest bass has hit floor, ceiling, and all four walls and all the way back to the sub before the first wave cycle completes. That's small.
Its these reflections that create the problem, and its multiple subs that solves the problem, therefore the worse the problem the more the better. So its sort of the opposite of the CW, and the smaller the room the more you need DBA and the better it will work. They don't need to be as big, but they do need to be more like four.
True, many subs can be EQ'd for very smooth deep response at the one spot its EQ'd for. Here's the problem. A big factor in muddy bass is that bass energizes the room. This takes time to dissipate all during which its resonating back into and muddying the music. So let's say you are down 5dB and so you EQ up 5dB to get flat at your one spot. Okay. But that 5dB is still coming out the sub energizing the whole room. Muddy bass. CW says no sweat, here buy these tube traps. Wonderful wonderful tube traps! And yes you can with enough stuff get it to sound pretty good. At that one spot. With all this extra stuff.
DBA says hey you are down 5dB no problem don't touch that sub just add another one. And put it where its not down 5dB. Or where it together with the first are not down 5dB. Now you got it flat and not by adding bass but actually taking it away, because now with 2 subs you get to drop the volume of each one to get back where you were. Do this again and again, four subs, now each one is much less volume but all together are as flat or flatter than the EQ'd setup, only we're putting much less total energy into the room therefore its way faster more articulate sounding.
This all applies only more and more as the room gets smaller. The main difference is you might be able to get away with smaller subs. But I would not go smaller than 10" unless the room was really small or they had to be hidden behind or under a sofa or something like that. Four 10" subs works remarkably well in a wide range of room sizes from yours or smaller to mine or bigger.