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Two small RELs or One Larger Sub

What would you do? 

Dedicated music/listening room -- 16 x 25, with 10 foot ceilings, no openings to other areas.
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Strictly 2 channel system.  

I'm looking to add air, space, realism.  Ultimate bottom end is not as important as all the other stuff a good musical sub does for full spectrum floor standers. 

I saw that Upscale had the REL S/2 on sale for $1k ea.  I was thinking it might be prudent to go with 2 of these as opposed to going with one REL S/3 or S5. 

Thoughts? 
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jbhiller OP
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Thanks for the responses!  

It seems two two smaller or mid sized might be a good bet.  I have a small Sumiko sub in another system—I think it’s an REL clone.  It’s so musical.  I’m definitely going to stay in the REL family because I like their philosophy of what a sub is supposed to do. 

Maybe ill I’ll start with one and see how it goes.
calvinj
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I had 2 s2 before. I like the 212se better 
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I have done and read some on the subject manner.
The following link was the information I found to most helpful in obtaining a well balance, flat frequency that closely matched the SPL of the main speakers and minimized frequency cancellations and bloom.

The sound is omni directional and it sounds as though it is being broadcasted from the main speakers and correctly positioned in the overall sound stage 

This may be helpful to you

http://www.decware.com/paper01.htm

Brad
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jbhiller OP
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Thank you Brad!  That article makes me want to start with one and see how it goes.  
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bradf
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Your welcome; It made a lot of sense to me. May be there's an audio store local to you, where you can compare one versus two

Brad



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