I bought 4 subwoofers and I'm absolutely not doing a DBA! Hah!
I just received shipments of 4 subwoofer drivers and they will not be going into a distributed bass array.
I'm replacing my left and right speaker stands with powering subwoofers with 2 subwoofer drivers each. I call them powering because they will be powering the 2-way monitors that will sit on top. Here's a beauty shot of the insides.
The amp has all the DSP power I could need to produce perfect speaker measurements. I wonder if JA at Stereophile would wax poetically if I priced them high enough?? 
Its the 2nd post I read today that mentions "enlarged soundstage" I never brought the low frequencies in context with 'air' and 'soundstage'. Should I start thinking adding a 2nd sub (2 smaller ones instead of 1 larger)? |
@iseland "Plateamp": I moved my "plate amp'' out of the sub box into a separate housing. Its still a plate amp (components mounted on a plate), just a 'plate am in a different housing'. Given the same space for the sub, I wanted that extra volume for the driver, and it allows me to swap out amps/crossovers, or use the 'housing amp' to drive other subs. |
Another benefit of using a subwoofer amp (often done as 'plate amps'), and the very first reason I used mine (aside from beying ICE design, well working/sounding, powerful): The amp came with adjustable crossover frequency and volume control (unlike my other existing 'power amps'). So using it was a given; putting it NOT into the tight space (sealed) box of the sub was just gravy (more usable volume for given exterior dimensions) AND easier to acomplish. But I guess the adjustable crossover frequency is also part of most receivers; in my case, I need to select 'small' speaker first, then I can select high pass and low pass frequencies.
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@erik_squires talking about 'air' and 'enlarged soundstage' with respect to subwoofers: "It's not about how many subs but about the sub to main speaker integration": how would you go about better 'intergration'? |
