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Home Theater: Is Subwoofer a must?

I'm just setting up my first home theater system. I have a Proceed PAV, with Classe amplification. A CA-200 drives my Legacy Classic mains while a bridged CAV-75 does center and surrounds. The Legacy Classics have (2) 10 woofers in each speaker, crossover set at 120hz. When I play music, which is 90% of my listening the bass is plentiful and solid. I've noticed though, that when I watch movies the bass is a little lean. I checked my Proceed PAV and made sure the internal crossover was turned off. My question is this, when they make these recordings on dvd, vhs or whatever do they separate all the bass information for the subwoofer channel? Do they think nobody buys full range speakers anymore? Or do they just want to make you buy a subwoofer? I thought with the bass response of my Classics I wouldn't need one. Am I wrong? Thanks for your help.
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avguygeorge
2,300 posts
 
Jmc; I'm from the "no subs",camp. Have you checked to see if you have chosen, "speakers full range" option in your Pav menu? / mine calls it " speakers lg". or "small".I assume you have chosen "sub off"? I have "Hell Freezes Over". There is more bass in DTS,than when I play it 2ch.
avguygeorge
2,300 posts
 
I beg to differ on the "lfe" The.1 of 5.1. They only go there if you direct them there thru the menu. I have Aerial 10Ts. To say again: dvds in the 5.1 have MORE bass partly because of the type of sounds within movies.It is there in music dvds as well. I bought "H F O" because it was in dts.(to much bass in dts)In 2ch less, but tighter. On Lazer disc....more and tighter bass still.Maybe I have a bass heavy processor,but that's my take from here.
avguygeorge
2,300 posts
 
Hey,Sean,somebody better check you into one of those half way houses for woofers'abusers.Oh,and at 6480 watts/same there also.Time to run consecutively.You could do this voluntarily or we can look into an intervention program. There probably isn't an ant,spider,or whatever ;alive in your house after viewing 'Pri. Ryan? Did you have a geological report,before adding that last pair of subs? Do you have a seismologist recording data? The foundation have those "freeway overpass" bolts attached? Ok,enough of that/this .The point was/is we both agree there should be more bass for movies. Jacgrogan has plenty of 2ch. bass;but less for ht/something don't seem right.It sure ain't the dvd format.
avguygeorge
2,300 posts
 
Sean; sorry for my gross exaggeration for the power figure. It must be awesome! I live in an apt/part of my agenda for "no subs". I have actually had 2, and couldn't integrate w/ my CLSs at the time. Funny,the Pav gives you bass management in each mode.But it was there!/and that's what counts. Like an Easter egg hunt.
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