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Your sub experience: Easy or hard?

For those of us with subwoofers, I'm curious whether you thought integrating it was easy or difficult.  That's it.

Of course, lots of DBA people will chime in. No problem but please ask that everyone stay on topic.  If you want to discuss all the pro's and cons of DBA take it to a brand new thread.  Thank you.

The focus here is just to ask how many people had easy or difficult times and what you thought was the difference.

erik_squires
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sunshdw
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I didn't think it was to bad. I have a dedicated treated 11.5 x 14 room.

I have a pair of subs, moved them around the room while using REW to measure each position. Once I got the placement close to my liking I then used the on board adjustments of the sub and my Anthem ARC to dial it in. 

Getting them placed was a couple hours and tweaking them took longer but you'd expect that.

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atmasphere
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I have two systems employing subs, one with DBA and one without.

The one with the DBA set up the fastest. I didn't have to mess with the sub locations and setting the amplifier controls was a breeze.

The other uses a single sub and I had to move it around quite a lot to find a spot that it could be heard at the listening position that was not also in the way. Where I wanted it and where it needed to be were quite different.

In both cases the subs are set to be operational below 50 Hz so no integration problems at all.

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ghdprentice
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I am on the side of they are a pain in the butt… well, were. I hear they are much easier to deal with now.

I bought four B&W 800 series (2 for audio) 25 years ago. Adjusted by ear and analytically using test tones and SPL. My system always sounded better with them but never did they sound perfectly integrated… I am sure my fault. But when I bought my current speakers I did so with the intent of not needing subs. I am very happy with the perfectly integrated sound.

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audioguy85
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Super easy, no sub! 😁

edcyn
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No problem integrating  my modest Paradigm sub-woofer into my system. I put it in spot in the room that the instructions suggested would  be good. I followed the instructions as to how to connect it up. I put one of my stereo test CDs (I have one, for example from Stereophile) into the CD player, cued up the frequency test cuts.and adjusted the subwoofer's volume & extension  by ear. True, I had to get out of my listening chair several times to twiddle knobs, but it wasn't long before I got, as they used to say, close enough for concert. Over the next couple days I fine-tuned the volume and position of the sub by ear.

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