Do you think you need a subwoofer?

Agreed that taking the low bass out of the satellites by utilizing subwoofers greatly improves the performance of the satellites, apparently by materially reducing the amount of work the satellites need to do.

This was immediately evident when I auditioned the speaker system I purchased in 1990, and still own. The designer was fanatical about the importance of low bass, and he knew what he was about. Even though the satellites are great, their performance is not the same without the subwoofers.

Best is when the stereo subwoofers are designed, tested and tuned as part of the system with the satellites, with appropriate crossovers and built-in amps designed especially for the subwoofers.

Dear Dgob: Nice to read that you are really satisfied too.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.

Dear Jimjoyce25: Nice to see that you agree.

IMHO with today advance on subwoofer designs it is more easy to integrate on almost any system, the DD Velodyne series are really good about and works in almost any system you can imagine.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.

Dear friends: For almost seventh months my system was running with only one subwoofer ( left-right channel bass signals in mono way. ) due that the other one was down because a failure, five/six weeks ago this one was fixed thank to Velodyne and I want to share with all of you something about:

due that I own two similar subwoofers we try to fix it at home, first we have to know where the failure comes so we check ( through the sub in good condition ) every single module and we found that the failure comes from the amplifier module that with out the diagram was a very hard time to fix it so I contact Velodyne and they agree that the amplifier module was the problem and that I send it to repair ( amplifier module alone ).

I did it and ten days later I receive a " big " box with the amplifier module ( at least that was what I think at that moment ) and when I open the box I was surprised that they not only send me the amplifier module but the whole subwoofer modules ( including the metal rear plate ): they send me a whole new electronic subwoofer modules!!!!, my hat off to Velodyne.

Over those six months my ears/brain were totally accustom/equalized to that single subwoofer quality system performance.

I connect the second one and put some of my prefered Lp's and the quality performance of the system " suffer " a big improvement against the " one subwoofer " fashion, this improvement is on the quality performance level not on quantity.

Through this experience I confirm again that one subwoofer in an audio system is the ( almost ) wrong way to go.

IMHO nothing compares to two subwoofers in true stereo fashion!

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.

Raul,
There are scientific studies done that show that 4 subwoofers are better than 2. Of course they ran a computer plot to show that the ideal in a SMALL rectangular room was 5000 subs.....not much room for the listeners however :)