Good article on speakers by Floyd Toole, close to the end there’s a section how to get great sound from a single subwoofer. As long as you’re only interested in one listening position. https://www.harman.com/Documents/AudioScience_0.pdf |
Avanti, Having two subs is a great advantage to achieving a balanced sound if you have limited room to position them. This is what I was waiting for. Unless you have a dedicated audio room, I don't, there are definite limitations to most all rooms. My system is in my living room. I simply can't put subwoofers where they might sound best. I'm confined to placing my sub next to one of my main speakers. Avanti, so your thesis is, buy a second sub and place next to the other speaker and enjoy the music. |
I am a huge fan of Floyd Toole, but in general he seems to not consider affordable bass traps as solutions. He kind of alludes to this: Short of hiring an acoustical consultant, and being willing to rearrange the furniture and possibly rebuild the walls, what can be done? So his entire solution space is outside of this possibility, which may be a choice based on who they expect their customers to be. Other, more modern acousticians have written with the presumption that bass traps are an option and they don’t throw up their hands quite as easily to the problem. Once we allow for bass traps, things get much better for subs and EQs, and it is from this perspective that I often challenge the DBA cultists. A well integrated single sub, in a well treated room, including bass traps performs really amazingly well. Two subs is better. Best, E |
