My ACI Titan II LE subwoofer has performed marvelously in both roles, though I use my 2-channel system for music 99.5% of the time.
I still have not become acclimated to all the bass and subsonic energy that they put into movies these days, which only became apparent to me after I purchased my subwoofer. The Titan II LE is sonicly unobtrusive but very musically effective, seamlessly filling in the lowest octave (and then some) of music, in concert with my Vandersteen 1C's.
When I play a movie (again through my 2-channel system), things can really get exciting, especially in action films and the work of directors such as Darren Aronofsky ("Requiem for a Dream", "Pi", etc.) who make sound such a viscerally affective element in their work. I'll know that I'm a true HT devotee when I no longer feel the need to reduce the level of the subwoofer during most movies.
I still have not become acclimated to all the bass and subsonic energy that they put into movies these days, which only became apparent to me after I purchased my subwoofer. The Titan II LE is sonicly unobtrusive but very musically effective, seamlessly filling in the lowest octave (and then some) of music, in concert with my Vandersteen 1C's.
When I play a movie (again through my 2-channel system), things can really get exciting, especially in action films and the work of directors such as Darren Aronofsky ("Requiem for a Dream", "Pi", etc.) who make sound such a viscerally affective element in their work. I'll know that I'm a true HT devotee when I no longer feel the need to reduce the level of the subwoofer during most movies.