Need advice on using subwoofer with Aerial 10T's

Dear Apollo66: I really like your 10T's and I admire to Mike Kelly ( btw, he was the designer of my ADS ones ) for its very good speakers designs.

Looking to the 10T crossover frequencies we can see that the woofers croosover at 360hz and from around 60 to 110hz goes down 3 Ohms ( impedance ) with and overall efficiency in the low range: 86db.

I respect the Jallen opinion but let me to show you my point of view about:

those woofers have the " job " to reproduce frequencies from around 450hz and down this means that the sound reproduction from them has a very high Intermodulation/harmonic Distortion where at the same time that the woofer has to handle ( example ) 30-40hz ( that means long woofer excurtions ) has to handle too frequencies in the 250 to 400hz that were/will be reproduced with those speaking distortions.
What happen if we try to integrate two ( not one ) powered subwoofers in true stereo fashion and crossing say around 60 to 100hz?, well you can/could have the answers here:

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1117893153&openflup&27&4#27

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1117893153&openflup&158&4#158

So IMHO and with those Aerial speakers I really think that you could have a heavy quality sound reproduction improvment.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.

Dear Raul,
Thank you for the response, and thanks for pointing me to the extensive discussion of subwoofers on Agon. Being a new member, I had not yet come across your thread "Do you think you need a subwoofer?" It looks like there's a lot of good info there on subs.

One thing I hoped my thread would uncover are specific <$2K subs that people found work well with the 10T's. Nobody has yet suggested such on this thread, but on your thread there seems to be a lot of discussion of particular subs. I suspect that getting a worthwhile improvement in my setup would require bigger and beefier subs than those available for <$2K. You apparently have settled on one of the Velodyne models and are happy with it.

For the time being I intend to take Jallen's advice and sit tight while I further study the pros and cons of subwoofing.
Your thread should be an enormous help.

Thanks again.

IF you are going to the trouble of getting a subwoofer, by all means get two of them. Bass is not monophonic, and besides that, the second sub will help avoid bass dead spots in the room and may very well make a good system great. Ask me how I know...EVERY time I have set up a system I have attempted to get by on one sub and when I added the second one it made a world of difference, it wasn't just noticeably better it was hugely better.

I had the 10T's in a 24 x 27' room for a while. They didn't suffer for lack of bass, in that they went remarkably low for floorstanders without any use of subs. I invited friends over to hear some demos, just to have a chuckle. I made playlists on Spotify honoring the speakers. 

Could they still benefit from a pair of subs? Undoubtedly. Let's talk budget. The room is certainly large enough. I only have experience with a small REL upstairs among audio subs. I did have a single SVS sub about 32 inches tall in that room for AV for almost 20 years.

The 10T's have been among my favorites in the house.

I used a JL Fathom F112 V2 with my 10T's and they worked amazingly well together.