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Need advice on using subwoofer with Aerial 10T's

Would like to hear from anyone having experience in using a powered subwoofer with Aerial 10T's. My room is 34'L X 14' W with 8' ceiling. The Aerials already produce pretty good bass in this room, but is there a "reasonably priced" (max $2K) sub that works well with the 10T's and would usefully extend the bass response? Or are the 10T's just best left alone? Any suggestions and recommendations would be appreciated.
apollo66

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rauliruegas
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Dear Apollo66: I really like your 10T's and I admire to Mike Kelly ( btw, he was the designer of my ADS ones ) for its very good speakers designs.

Looking to the 10T crossover frequencies we can see that the woofers croosover at 360hz and from around 60 to 110hz goes down 3 Ohms ( impedance ) with and overall efficiency in the low range: 86db.

I respect the Jallen opinion but let me to show you my point of view about:

those woofers have the " job " to reproduce frequencies from around 450hz and down this means that the sound reproduction from them has a very high Intermodulation/harmonic Distortion where at the same time that the woofer has to handle ( example ) 30-40hz ( that means long woofer excurtions ) has to handle too frequencies in the 250 to 400hz that were/will be reproduced with those speaking distortions.
What happen if we try to integrate two ( not one ) powered subwoofers in true stereo fashion and crossing say around 60 to 100hz?, well you can/could have the answers here:

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1117893153&openflup&27&4#27

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1117893153&openflup&158&4#158

So IMHO and with those Aerial speakers I really think that you could have a heavy quality sound reproduction improvment.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.
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