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

eddnog

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Hmm most speakers worth consideration should go down below say 100hz. 
 

Not to say one couldn’t explore a three box external crossover solution somehow. Could be an interesting if not very practical approach if done well.
 

Something different maybe.   Any speaker vendors sell such a pre-integrated design  out of the box?  Practically I’d prefer to handle large heavy speakers in three parts of even two rather than one big heavy thing that is impossible to handle practically. 
 

For example with my big Ohm F5s, the drivers are all self contained in a “can” that detaches from the cabinet “base” making overall shipping and handling much easier than most of comparable size and weight.   Very unique !