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I think I'm subwoofing now

After my decluttering exercise I have recluttered with a pair of SVS SB-1000 Pro subwoofers. I've tried a few different positions but placing the subs inside the main speakers and on the same frontal plane is best so far. I've been playing with the low-pass filter and I'm presently at 50Hz with 18dB roll-off.

I still have more experimenting to do but so far this placement seems best w/o a lot tweaking.

I guess I'm hearing what I am supposed to and to some extent what I wasn't expecting. The lower freqs have more energy and at times I can feel it in my chest more than before. To be expected. What I wasn't expecting was a little more overall "clarity" and larger soundstage. Is this possible? It also sounds better than it did before when playing at lower volume levels WITHOUT applying my Roon DSP trickery of tipping the bottom and top ends up slightly.

My previous subwoofer experience was about 15 years ago and it wasn't to my liking. I had a down-firing REL placed in the corner in our previous house. It was supposed to "pressurize" the room with noticeable bass. It did but it was a "round and indistinct bass" and not very snappy or tight. I placed the REL sub in front and on its side with the woofer firing directly at me instead of down-firing. It still wasn't great but I preferred it to the down-firing setup in the corner.

I decided on a pair of smaller front firing subs this time instead of one larger sub.

Any suggestions for further experimentation?


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Topic - I think I'm subwoofing now - AbeCollins 16:32:06 05/15/22 (91)
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