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Debating Full-Range

I've always been an advocate of speakers that can handle the entire frequency spectrum. I figure if I am to spend multiple $k's on a set of speakers, they damn well better be big, go deep, and play loud enough to fill my room.

Recently I've been looking at speakers such as the Bohlender-Graebener Radia 520's. I'm wondering if such a speaker with its limited ability to produce any more low frequencies than a mini-monitor could possibly impress me enough to go to the trouble of integrating a couple subwoofers and make a good HT system that is near seamless when it handles music as well.....

This is for a second system. 80% HT.

Any thoughts, or particular experience with these speakers>?
hmbrewd

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eldartford
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Any respectable audiophile speaker should be flat to 70Hz or thereabouts, so a subwoofer can be cut in below that. Then, when the music has no signal for the subwoofer, and lots of music does not, just turn the SW amp off and save electricity. Also, if there really is no music signal down there, the high end speakers will sound better with the 70 Hz "rumble filter" taking out the rumble of air conditioning in the recording studio.
By the way, one cannot "always add bass". I have found that when Magneplanar speakers begin their LF rolloff, no amount of boost using an equalizer has any effect. With Maggies, if you want solid LF a SW is manditory.
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