Experience with stacked subwoofers?


I have seen a handful of responses to posts mentioning stacked line array subwoofers, like the stackable Rel 510s. Does anyone have a stacked subwoofer array in their system and can speak to their experience?  The marketing hype that Rel puts out about this has me intrigued. Their explanation as to why it’s awesome makes sense, but also I want to go beyond the marketing and hear about real experiences before I drop a bunch of dough on something like that. 

bobelton

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Love this discussion as this is something I'm planning myself at the moment.

 

Has anyone considered running their line array via DIRAC? I personally really like the feature and want to continue using it but unsure how to make it work without sacrificing benefits of the line array. In particular the fact that I don't think you can set independent crossovers per sub via DIRAC (and the line array method seems to be to run the xover higher for the higher subs in the stack).

Was thinking about hacking it with a combination of the dirac xover and onboard sub xover function.

@dwette 

Have contacted REL (and DIRAC for that matter) and haven't figured it out yet but still working on it :-)

Nice!

sorry for all the questions but how have you positioned them relative to your speakers? 

Have you put them in the corners of the room or next to the speakers on the in/outside? In my research I’ve seen that the location seems to vary from what rel recommends in their line array setup video

@dwette 

 

 how’s the dialling in process coming along? Are you up to subs 5 and 6 yet?

 

 Is your description of the experience of adding subs 3&4 similar to what REL and others describe in terms of increased attack?

@dwette your setup looks great! I'm very interested to hear/see how it all ends up with the last 2 subs!

 

I guess all the marketing hype was true. A Rel 6 pack adds so much extra air that you end up with a bigger listening room ;-)