Do you think you need a subwoofer?

Sirspeedy: Somewhere you mention that you weren,t able to get down to Mexico city to listen to Raul,s because you were
saving $ for family vacation. Why not accept Raul,s invitation and do both: You can fly with the family down to Mexico city, you stay for a night and the family conmutes to one of Mexico,s semi- paradise beaches(Cancun, Conzumel, Ixtapa,Acapulco etc..), then you meet them next day. Just an idea, but after being at Raul,s place about 6 weeks ago,i think its worth the effort.

Cardani,I think ANYTHING audio is a hard sell to the "little lady" these days.I have to keep her happy,on vacations,by shying away from audio related topics.Thanks for the suggestion.

Dear Doug: You are always welcome. Please let me know if you are ready to do it.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.

OH,DRATS---I was hoping Raul was independently wealthy,and was willing to fly myself,and family to his private listening compound,on his dime!!Apparently no such luck!!

Hmm!There's always Albert Porter!Think I'll begin to "Butter HIM up"!!Albert,did I ever mention that you have the best system on the Planet??I don't take up much sleeping space,and eat little.Maybe I can offer a couple of freebie tennis lessons,in return!

Best regards!

DEAR FRIENDS: There is a subject that maybe is not very clear about the integration in a true stereo fashion of powered subwoofers with " full range " speakers like Dynaudio Evidence/Temptations, Dali Megaline, Wilson Maxx2, etc, etc,...

We can think that with a FRS the integration of two powered subwoofers can't do any help to improve the quality sound reproduction. I can tell you that even with FRS the integration of subs can help a lot, let me to give my opinion about::

- That elusive full octave in the low bass is a headache for any one, especially for the loudspeaker manufacturers: they have to choose very carefully the right trade-offs about.
In the other side, we the FRS customers have to choose the right amplification device for really " take-out " and " live " that marvelous low bass reproduction through those FRS: a very hard task, it does not matters the speaker design and the amplifier design.

- There is no single external / stand alone amplifier that can work or do a better job than a low bass dedicated amplifier like the one that comes with a powered subwoofer:
think that this dedicated bass amplifier was designed/tailored to match every single woofer parameter: impedance, frecuency response range, damping, power, distortion, etc, etc,...

- It is not only this dedicated amplifier what makes this subwoofer approach/technology ideal to handle the low bass octaves.
The driver/woofer is designed/tailored too for that specific frecuency range.
There is no passive FRS, at any price with any amplifier, that could beat a self powered subwoofers in that frecuency range. When you have and hear the subs on your system you never can live again with out those subwoofers.

Here we have to remember other important issue: the best subwoofers are SERVO CONTROLLED, this characteristic give to the subwoofer a heavy advantage over a FRS about the low distortion that a well designed subwoofer had against a higher distortions on any FRS.

- With a subwoofer we not only gain with a lowest harmonic distortion but with a lowest intermodulation distortion too. This means better quality sound reproduction.

- Other advantage is that with the integration of two subwoofers in a true stereo fashion to a full range speakers system: the main ( s ) amplifier will be free of those high power consumtion low bass frecuency range: this means too, better quality music sound reproduction. No exception.

- Other advantage with the subs integration is that facilitate the integration of our mains speakers to the room.

Do you think that your FRS audio system sounds great? Wait till you do the subwoofers integration: you will be on music heaven !!!!!!!! Nothing less. Try it.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.