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Has anyone here set up a system with tiered subwoofers handling different bass spectrums?

Has anyone here set up a system with tiered subwoofers handling different bass spectrums? I currently have bookshelf speakers fully crossed over to a pair of smallish symmetrically placed, force-canceling stereo subwoofers at 160Hz, and I am thinking about adding a big, ported sub and fully crossing that over to the stereo ones at 60Hz. My setup will easily allow me to do it (I have a miniDSP Flex that is applying DIRAC Live room correction to my current 2.2 setup downstream and that preamp is handling the full bass management duties right now, so the miniDSP only sees a pure 2.0 system at the moment--I can just attach the new sub to the second pair of outputs and use the miniDSP to handle this level of the bass management). Am wondering if anyone else has tried this? I am looking to improve bottom end impact and extension with the big ported woofer (looking at SVS PC-2000 Pro) since the stereo ones are not currently reaching down as low as my previous sub (currently a pair of SVS 3000 Micros; before these, I had a single SVS SB-3000).

-Ed

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@gdaddy1 Wrote:

Bottom line... if you want great bass and dynamics these aren't the right speakers. The subs are fine. No need to buy another one.

These speakers are great for near field, low level listening for classical music. But if your looking for some punchy Jazz tunes or electronic chill music the little drivers in these things can't handle it. 

I agree! You cannot improve the very low bass of speakers, if they do not have good low midrange reproduction see here. I agree with the others above, subwoofer crossover 100 Hz or lower to keep directional characteristics intact, true subwoofers are designed to fill in the last octave of 20-30 Hz.😎

Mike

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