I bought 4 subwoofers and I'm absolutely not doing a DBA! Hah!


I just received shipments of 4 subwoofer drivers and they will not be going into a distributed bass array. 

I'm replacing my left and right speaker stands with powering subwoofers with 2 subwoofer drivers each.  I call them powering because they will be powering the 2-way monitors that will sit on top.  Here's a beauty shot of the insides.

The amp has all the DSP power I could need to produce perfect speaker measurements.   I wonder if JA at Stereophile would wax poetically if I priced them high enough?? laugh

1744240613802.pngeriksquires · 2025-04-09 11:17 pm at 11:17 PM

erik_squires

Love the portrait, btw....my protoplasm has gone the same way, basically...

"You so ugly you could turn yourself to stone with a mirror..."

I would not discount the vibration-cancelling effect of having back-to-back drivers properly wired. Idoing this is DIY speakers and it's very significant. If side subs won't work, you could have one facing forward and one facing backwards, keep the same footprint and get the canceling effect. Pretty significant for subs with monitors sitting on top!

@lewinskih01 

I would not discount the vibration-cancelling effect of having back-to-back drivers properly wired.

Please read above.  This was thoroughly discussed with @audiokinesis  before.

@erik_squires 

Glad to see that you are going to raise the x-over point to some where around 150-250.  You will be happy that you are willing to bring it up.  Take the load off the mids.

Tri-amping is a wonderment!

Regards,

barts

Hey @barts  - Honestly always a conversion more than subwoofer addition.  The upper crossover point will depend on how they measure in cabinet and with the upper sections in place.

The advantage of subwoofer appliance is freedom of location in the room.  The disadvantage is you can't go higher than 80 Hz or so.