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Will I benefit from a subwoofer with 20Hz speakers?

My source is a minidsp shd studio with Dirac going into Denafrips Gaia DDC to Denafrips T+ DAC to McIntosh 601 Monoblocks to Cabasse Pacific 3 speakers. The speaker's published frequency response is 41-20,000Hz. I presume this is achieved in an anechoic chamber. In my room however, it goes down to 20Hz, at least according to the Dirac measurements. In fact, I needed to flatten the curve and  reduce by 5-20 DBs between 20-100Hz due to the room effect.

So, considering I already go down to 20Hz, is there anything else 1 or 2 subwoofers will do for my system?  Would it create a more consistent low frequency field? I see many people adding up to 6 subs, so I wonder what I'm missing. 

Thank you for your insight! 

dmilev73
laps
89 posts
 

The short answer, is definitely "yes", add a subwoofer.  Don't over analyze it.

erik_squires
16,042 posts
 

Well that's not bad.  I think you left the bass a little lean. 

Between 20 Hz and 100 Hz add a low shelf of about 4 dB.

from 100 Hz to 16 kHz go for a steeper slope, so 16 Khz is about -5 dB relative to 500 Hz.

Yes, subwoofers can be glorious but your problem right now is room balance.

Also, if you are doing this all without any room treatments it's not going to sound as good as if you worked together with them, especially in the bass.

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kijanki
4,428 posts
 

Assuming 18ft between front and back wall your room will amplify 1125/36=31.25Hz and multiples (62.5Hz, 93.75, 125Hz etc.).  31.25Hz is alway welcome, but multiples require room treatments.

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audioman58
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tubebuffer
417 posts
 

Yes you need subwoofer without doubt there be shadow.

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