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Finally Learned: Subs serve much larger role than adding more low bass

I sold my older powered sub a while back. reasons-

1. It did not integrate well.

2. I was pretty satisfied with my 2 speakers bass output.

3. Was big, heavy and ugly.

After traveling around the counrty and listening to home systems put together by people who know their way around the industry I realized they all have something I did not. A well integrated bass array.

So what does a bass array add to a 2.0 system?

This is where words fail but I will try:

-Increased Involvement in the listening experience

-More enjoayble sound stage

So if you are like I was, a sub denier, I suggest you try one small

sub, as I did, and see what you experience. My $500 REL T5x experience

did it for me. Now I will buy a second one.

 

chorus
chorus OP
976 posts
 

I wanted the model that the driver faced down as it may live

in harms way. Practical solution I thought.

chorus OP
976 posts
 

Now that I have become an "Enlightened One" insofar as having recognizedd

the highest and best reason to use subs, it is starting to bother me when I hear a reviewer counsel someone that a given speaker "May need a subwoofer". 

They all need subs so please just say "The bass sucks on these speakers"

johnnyotto
21 posts
 

Besides adding some lower frequencies that your main speakers are not capable of, really the main reason for subs is to relieve the largest speakers in your main speakers of having to reproduce the lower frequencies that they can produce and allow them to focus on the midrange.  If anyone is adding a sub or cranking up the bass just to get that chest thumping experience, I can almost guarantee that their music is out of balance without knowing much more.

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