One woofer or a pair?

Another freckin frequency fact question?

Marakanetz, how's the poetry coming?

I can think of two simple reasons: 1) you can use them as matching end tables and 2) you like your system to sound like your kid's car stereo. Just joking bass fans.

I admit my taste (or lack of taste) in music does not call for a sub and most of them I listen too are dreadful overkill. This, of course, does not include the folks at Agon who know how to integrate bass into a system.

I would like to ask a follow up question to yours. I read some time ago that two subs should be used used because under certain recording conditions (mic placement and what not)you will have bass recorded out of phase and when it is combined to one sub (channel) it will cancel out and you will have less bass than if you had no sub at all! Not being a sub fan I didn't give it much thought and now I cannot recall the source but if a fellow Agon could enlighten me it would be much appreciated.

Sincerely, I remain bassless and

Clueless, i would think that it wouldn't matter if the out of phase signal was presented by one driver summed to mono or by two in stereo, it would still end up cancelling itself out ( to a large extent ).

By the way, you REALLY do need to change your nickname. As your posts have proven, you are anything BUT.... : ) Sean
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Using a single sub is more likely to excite specific room nodes. Using two subs spread out will allow more even response in the room since you are able to tune the positioning. Try moving a mono sub a few feet in either direction and listen to the difference, unless you have a room with extremely well distributed nodes, you should hear a pretty sizeable difference.

Kevin
The Sound Broker

Can I be clueless, Clueless? I believe I can be... and I also can be curious too especially if I hadn't tried any of the woofer-speaker combos. In fact you might be right about no-sub effect and I would also wait for that answer that you expect. What about the vinyl records that are stereo but designed for the mono pickup as well?? ...

I also believe that giving a sub his freequency range you can improve your speaker's midrange(again depending on a sub quality). Now that's not a kid-stereo stuff.

Off the topic(poetry)
I've placed a few more psych poems onto my thread a long time ago. There were a few abstract dreams but I didn't capture them to write them down -- hard to be in control while you sleep. Besides I don't smoke &%$^ anymore and a probability of the quality abstract dream is much lower.
Before I smoked constantly and saw the dreams that I couldn't understand, but after a while I've realized that I can get up and be under my control to remember what was going on... The 2 worlds that I was trying to live before cannot be successfully combined: one of them will have a success and the other will have a failure...

...evry house has windows up
from every door you can walk a step
but if your way is imprinted with chalk
where would you go if the snow will fall?

In my experience, the only way to get away with a mono sub is if the crossover point is exceedingly low, meaning less than 40Hz. Anything above that and you will be able to localize it. I also agree about the virtues of downloading; it seems to couple to the room better, but again will only work well with very low crossover points.