Your sub experience: Easy or hard?


For those of us with subwoofers, I'm curious whether you thought integrating it was easy or difficult.  That's it.

Of course, lots of DBA people will chime in. No problem but please ask that everyone stay on topic.  If you want to discuss all the pro's and cons of DBA take it to a brand new thread.  Thank you.

The focus here is just to ask how many people had easy or difficult times and what you thought was the difference.

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@atmasphere , WOW, that is high up but not unusual for efficient speakers. They probably need the radiating area to keep up with the horns. Between 200 and 500 Hz is a big chunk of very important midrange. Relieving those 15" drivers of 80 - 100 Hz down would clean up your midrange quite a bit. When you play the system as loud as you are comfortable with, something with a decent bass line and a bass drum, can you see the excursions? If you cannot see it doppler distortion is probably not audible. If you can see it , it probably is. The kicker here is my experience is with full range ESLs. Do the same criteria apply to cone drivers. I do not see why not. The driver with the smaller surface area has to take a longer excursion.  

When you play the system as loud as you are comfortable with, something with a decent bass line and a bass drum, can you see the excursions?

There are two 15" woofers per cabinet. You never see them move.

@phusis , you must have a huge listening room. check out the DEQX web site. They are just now releasing a new set of gear and it is really serious stuff. You get either a Pre4 or a Pre8 and you will be in hog heaven!

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@phusis , Right, all the cross overs you'll ever need right in your preamp. Fully programmable, nothing between the amp and the driver.