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Current Inexpensive sub that can get it done cheap

I have two listening areas at my house. I have a full[on home theatre out in my barn, That set-up staets with a krell HTS (currently in the shop blowing fuses), Rotel for power 2 x 200wpc for the fronts. And a 6 channel rotel running bridged for the middle and rears at 150wpc for them. I also have an older Def Tech PF15tl sub. By the way the fronts are b and w's 604s3's, rears are def tech bipolars, and a nice paradigm center.

I have a 2 channel I want to enjoy in the house. I have some nice BW cdm7 speakers. Right now its a small yammie receiver... buts its gonna go soon. What kind of sub would pound my living room with as much snappy bass as it can handle. I like rock music and it gets played as loud as it still sounds good! If any knows a fairly affordable sub that is worth investing in please let me know!
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patrickp
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Depending on your definition of cheap, check out partsexpress dot com and look at the Dayton sub kits. From my understanding the sound decent and can really pound it out for the low cost they are asking.
patrickp
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Well engineered ported designs as good as sealed designs IMHO.
Each has its tradeoffs -
Sealed boxes have issues mores on an issue with standing internal standing waves being feedback to the speaker cones. Ported designs exhibit other possible (arguably) tradeoffs. I’ve heard designs of both schools that sound excellent. All rooms exhibit ‘modes’ – they just occur at differ frequencies (they all will fall into the subwoofer range). Different speaker drivers end to work better in different designs depending on several factors. A major one is the ‘Q’ of a driver. The bottom line is that the driver needs to match the box design. One is not necessarily better than the other. Room modes and reflections also occur at all other audible frequencies. There are quite a few places on the WWW that will explain how to calculate them.
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