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).

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I do this, using two M&K mx700 in stereo with high pass filter set to 40hz, no low pass filter on the Monitor Audio speakers, and a M&K v200b sub with the high pass filter set as low as the dial can go - not real sure but id expect below 30 hz. the two 700s are stacked vertically.

these three have really helped my 10x11’ room suffer minimally from pressure nodes and it goes as deep as any material i have to play.