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

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). 

@dwette 

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

Fair enough. Good luck. I hope you accomplish what you want to.

So far I have four of my six dialed in very nicely, for classical, jazz, classic rock that I listen to on vinyl. I'm very satisfied and looking forward to getting the last pair from my dealer (within a few days I hope).

 

Oops. In my comment about the post above by @simonmoon regarding the GR Research/Rythmik Audio OB/Dipole Sub, I neglected to say that AudiogoN member jaytor includes pics of his stacks of the 2-woofer model of the sub in his virtual system. Four 12" servo-feedback ob/dipole woofers per side = awesome!