bdp24 and everyone else looking for seamless bass from their maggies
I had 3.5Rs for maybe 4 years in a volumetrically large room where bass has always been an issue, but soon to be solved (I hope)
When I had Accoustat 2 + 2s, I tried the small Sunfire powered subs then the larger Sunfire Sig subs, but all they did was flub flub flub. Ditto with my 2 SVS powered subs (Ultra & Plus). Why? The volume controls suck in both (all 4 cases). The piss-poor VCs blast the subs when barely cracking the VC no matter where the bypass is set. I mentioned this to SVS on numerous occasions, but it fell on deaf ears
Much later I tried using a separate amp and ~ $200 active XOs from DBX and Behringer. Neither companies XO lasted more than 6 months: I went through 4 Behringers and 2 DBXs. What was needed was a high quality XO (like Marchand) which was way out of my budget
Of late Mike (YT channel OCD HiFI Guy fame) had Marchand build him a custom active XO for his highly moded Maggies + bass reflex tower subs. He raves about them. Alas, he’s in the Atlanta area so I will not likely ever hear them. The Marchand probably costs as much as the Maggies, let alone addition amplification, and tower subs, which of course requires an additional amp and long speaker cables= mo money, mo money, mo money.
My current speakers are Emerald Physics KCIIs, which are open baffle and they sound terrific without physically cutting my room in half visually, and while the 10" woofers do an excellent job reproducing bass it gets lost in my large room.
To solve my <30Hz bass, I have a pair of EP 2.8s coming soon. Each has 2 x 15" carbon fiber woofers + a 12" coaxial carbon fiber mid-range (96 dB!) that can be driven with just one amp (DSP is an option) PLUS they’re only 48" tall. I have a thread titled Life with Ric Schultz EVS 1200 to which I will be updating once I get the 2.8s
hth
I had 3.5Rs for maybe 4 years in a volumetrically large room where bass has always been an issue, but soon to be solved (I hope)
When I had Accoustat 2 + 2s, I tried the small Sunfire powered subs then the larger Sunfire Sig subs, but all they did was flub flub flub. Ditto with my 2 SVS powered subs (Ultra & Plus). Why? The volume controls suck in both (all 4 cases). The piss-poor VCs blast the subs when barely cracking the VC no matter where the bypass is set. I mentioned this to SVS on numerous occasions, but it fell on deaf ears
Much later I tried using a separate amp and ~ $200 active XOs from DBX and Behringer. Neither companies XO lasted more than 6 months: I went through 4 Behringers and 2 DBXs. What was needed was a high quality XO (like Marchand) which was way out of my budget
Of late Mike (YT channel OCD HiFI Guy fame) had Marchand build him a custom active XO for his highly moded Maggies + bass reflex tower subs. He raves about them. Alas, he’s in the Atlanta area so I will not likely ever hear them. The Marchand probably costs as much as the Maggies, let alone addition amplification, and tower subs, which of course requires an additional amp and long speaker cables= mo money, mo money, mo money.
My current speakers are Emerald Physics KCIIs, which are open baffle and they sound terrific without physically cutting my room in half visually, and while the 10" woofers do an excellent job reproducing bass it gets lost in my large room.
To solve my <30Hz bass, I have a pair of EP 2.8s coming soon. Each has 2 x 15" carbon fiber woofers + a 12" coaxial carbon fiber mid-range (96 dB!) that can be driven with just one amp (DSP is an option) PLUS they’re only 48" tall. I have a thread titled Life with Ric Schultz EVS 1200 to which I will be updating once I get the 2.8s
hth