Automatic Room Correction has won the Subwoofer Wars

How obtuse!      My only point has ever been that FFT based programs can window out the later arrival times of reflections and discern them from direct (speaker to mic) impulses (ie: when performing time/phase alignments between subs and mains, etc).               You’re trying to make the conversation about room/EQ measurements.       Twisting in the wind (deflection)!       Sorry, Erik (I’ll drop it, here).

Configuring a sub with digital bass management is not all that hard. Choosing the right crossover points and slopes is probably the hardest part. It helps if you can see them on a screen. Then it is all trial and error. Everyone has a theory but there is no single right answer. It depends on the speakers and set up. After this the subs have to be equalized so their response is flat at the listening position and finally delays set so that the sound of the subs and satellites gets to your ear exactly at the same time in phase. This require a full 2 way digital crossover. In my system the computer measures each speaker and automatically computes correction filters and delays. They are more accurate than what you can do manually.

I’m a very slow typist so I missed some of the action. Manually shifting a car is fun. Manually programming correction filters is not. I encourage people to look at my system page where I go over this with screenshots. What I see here is long on theorizing and short on experience. 

I'm seeing the title of this thread as clickbait.

Unless we are talking about DBAs vs oldschool, there are no 'subwoofer wars'.

Now one thing I'm not seeing here so far but Duke did allude to it is the Total Room Energy which dominates the room sound above 300Hz or so depending on the room. The thing is, if the speaker design is competent, the measure of this in an anechoic chamber gives a very good prediction of how the actual Total Room Energy will work out in an actual room. We all know how the off-axis response needs to smoothly drop off; the Total Room Energy is actually what dominates people's impressions of the tonality of a speaker.

This is a matter of good speaker design; it appears to me that ARCs are apparently most useful in dealing with speakers with poor response.