Do you think you need a subwoofer?

Raul
Excellent post!!!!!

Dear friends: There are other improvemenst when you mate subwoofers to your home stereo audio system, example:

Usually the location of the speakers in our room ( with out subs ) is a " compromise " ( trade off ) between the best performance at the bass against the best performance at the mid/high frecuencies ( only in a few cases the location is with out any " trade offs ". ), when we integrated the subs in our audio system we can have the best of both " worlds " and you will be in " heaven ".

Now you can really know how good ( or not ) is not only your audio system but any single audio item: cartridge/tonearm/cables/TT/preamp/amplifier/CD, and now you can detect any sound reproduction performance problems in those audio items and try to fixed/exchange: now and only now ( not before ) you can say " this is the best cartridge or tonearm or SUT ,etc.. " that I ever heard.

When your subs are settle-in in your system you don't have only a great high resolution system but a truly full range audio system in favor of the M U S I C .

Really, you don't know what you have ( the great potential of your system that right now you are loosing. It does not matters what you have. ) till you have yours: subwoofers. It is a pleasure that you can't imagine !!!!!!

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.

Hello Raul,I agree that i did not spend a lot of time or effort with integrating my sub in my 2 ch. system,im sure some room treatments are needed for low freq. in my room,also i lack a long IC to play around with placement,,.would i be wasting my time trying it again before im able to treat my room with bass traps?

Dear Ray: As I already post the integration of the subs in any room is not an easy task and almost always we need to do some room's treatment but always is wortwhile every effort about.

Never is a wasting time to try again with the subs: you have to try and after that you will do the room treatment, not before.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.

I regard the "subwoofer" not as a separate speaker system, but as part of the main speaker system...the part that the manufacturer left out because of size and cost. Naturally this means that every main speaker has its "own" subwoofer driven by the same channel signal with appropriate electronic crossover.

The reasons for having a subwoofer are (1) to use a larger diameter driver appropriate for LF (or, the same thing, to enable use of a smaller driver for the main woofer) and (2) keep the LF cone excursions out of the woofer.

I think that the issue of "slow" subwoofers is overdone. Low frequency sounds are inherently "slow" and the subwoofer is properly reproducing them. For example: a sixteen foot organ pipe is slow...its sound develops slowly to its full volume/tone. A tuba is slower than a piccolo.