Two subwoofers or One?


I have a pair of Martin Logan Ascenti speakers with one Descent sub. What advantages besides having them operate in stereo would I get?

My room is 14' wide by 40' long would 2 subs. be more balanced, or should I just stick with the one sub?

Any help in this matter would help.
Thanks
Russ
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Showing 3 responses by unsound

The usual advantage of using two subwoofers is that you will most likely spread out nodes due to room interaction.
Nsgarch, I'm not familiar with this particular sub, so I must bow to your experience. It might be worth mentioning that it has been suggested that due to the summing of channels of stereo (i.e. not a dedicated sub woofer channel) signals to mono that it is actually possible to deplete information.
Nsgarch, I can't argue with the truth. I will say that I while most experts agree that low frequencies aren't very directional, I suspect that on some level we are aware of something askew when those frequencies harmonics appear from where they might not aught to be.