Maggies and subwoofer integration

another strong vote for rel sub pairs, using the high level (speaker) connection -- wonderful match easy to integrate

but in a small 11x13 room, a single rel should work fine

parenthetically, i recently tried (due to the all the youtube talking heads' groundswell) a pair of svs micro 3000 subs... with their fancy cellphone control app etc etc... these subs only use preamp level inputs, there is no option for a speaker level connection -- this experiment lasted all but 48 hrs, the cute lil svs's were unceremoniously kicked to the curb, back in went my rels  

My understanding is that the more distributed bass sources you have, the smoother the in-room bass.

To a first approximation, a dipole can be thought of as two monopolar bass sources 180 degrees apart in phase, and separated by a path length. Thus, to a first approximation, two dipoles are comparable to having four monopolar sources, distributed in phase as well as spatially.

Therefore, imo, a single monopolar bass source - a single subwoofer - is unlikely to be as smooth in-room as two dipoles. I think the discontinuity is likely to be audible.

Imo you need more than one subwoofer in order to approximate the in-room bass smoothness of two dipoles. Two subs intelligently distributed are approximately twice as smooth in-room as one, and four subs intelligently distributed are roughly twice as smooth in-room as two. Imo they do not have to all be identical.

Duke

dealer/manufacturer and distributed multi-sub advocate

Never but never use a sub with magnepan i have all mine live magnepan the mg20 the 3.7 the lrs and now the 1.7i. magnepan have the most natural instrumental low you can imagine. The most people wants a pump low and thats full the complete room thats the most wrong low you can get. There is a video at youtube from wendell he explains exact what bass must shoot be. The amp is the most important equipment with magnepan there it go's wrong in the most times.

@margaretha         You hit your head on the nail.

What's the worst speaker or stereo set-up you've ever seen? Intergrate a subwoofer with maggies ;)