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.
These guys are marketing a change in the sound dynamics in a room. Exploiting human nature. Just because you hear a change doesn't mean things are getting better. So now what are we gonna start doing stacked mid range and tweeters?? All this Because main speakers are now this made with smaller diameter bass drivers. |
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. |
@guysellingstuff Why not contact REL and ask what they think (I’m guessing no to DIRAC). They have very responsive customer service. But to answer your question, no, something like DIRAC has no place in my two-channel system. I'm not even sure how that could even work for a REL line array. While I do have a digital streaming source, my primary playback source is all analog (turntable with two tonearms). |
