Best Home Theater sub or subs for a large room


I am building a dedicated large home theater. The dimensions are going to be 32 feet by 25 feet. There will be three levels of seating. The back of the room will have an 8 foot ceiling. The front will have an 11 foot ceiling.

How many subs?
Which ones are recommended?
Where would you place them?

I would like to spend less than $2500 for the sub or subs.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The room is modeled after a theater at Bradfordwells.com. See:
http://www.bradfordwells.com/theater2.html

Cheers!
wshah

Showing 2 responses by audiooracle


The Jl Audio F 113 is an easy answer. It is extremely powerful with the tightest low bass response around it is a bit more expensive than what you mentioned but it is winning awards
left and right for the quantity and quality of the bass.

You are better off paying less for your theater seats and getting great components.

A single JL Audio sub woofer would be where I would start with wiring for additional subs to come in later. The JL audio sub woofers are amazing.

Two I would spend less money on fancy seats and put more money into the components.

I checked out the Bradford Wells site, other than a very nice looking site their theaters are nothing spectacular and quite frankly illustrate a lack of knowledge about what current state of the art products and room tuning is all about.

For starters no one who is building a state of the art theater today will recommend a micro perf screen from anybody! There are much more acoustically transparent screens out there which have 1.5 db reduction of high frequencies, no moire, and no comb filtering effects.

Also an M&K or even a Genelec based Theater is second best to a JBL Synthesis or other Horn based systems.

Many of the seats in their pictures look like high back recliners which are a no no in a real theater.

There is no mention of tactile transducers, power conditioning, real acoustical treatments, proper cabling etc. This is a great deal of looking good.

If you want to really get your monies worth hire a real home theater professional.