@erik_squires
“Yes, indeed. A great room is a lot more speaker friendly. You eliminate a number of issues related to room/sub/speaker integration here as well. I’m not saying they can’t be overcome, but that few do it well”
This is such a true statement. Unfortunately, many don’t have the opportunity to have a large room and/or able to construct with proper sound mitigation techniques. Life is full of compromises. Subs in smaller spaces tend to help to negate room mode anomalies if they are properly setup.
@russ69
Yes, for a 15hz Organ notes, subs for sure. I have not played any music in years that has any organ music so that is not an issue for me.
@fuzztone,
“It depends. How low does it go in the room?
Have you checked for nodes?
And what do ya listen to?”
I have measured in room response using dedicated subwoofer measuring software from Velodyne, Phonic PAA6 handheld audio analyzer, and the Rives Audio professional room measurement system. What all of these do for measuring the bass portion, is show a cool graph in which the owner of the room needs to analyze the data and taking those variables to add subtract bass absorbers, identify room modes, etc. For sure, people have work cut out it they know what they are doing.
@raysmtb1,
“When I got back into it after having a mountain bike accident and becoming paralyzed 2 years ago I was shocked at the lack of full sized speakers.”
Man, I sure hated reading that, but love that you got back into music. Music is the healing force of the world according to the song I Love Music by the OJays.
Your right, there are not many large floor standers. Like the idea of throwing out the subs because they are not needed with large speakers with the ability to do deep bass naturally. My speakers go down to 20hz and feel like kicking them out and selling them for someone who really needs them because I don’t anymore.