Getting deep bass that matches the smoothness (and therefore subjective "speed") of a pair of Maggies is a challenge. You see, dipoles inherently have smoother in-room bass than monopoles do.
In going from two dipole speakers to a single monopole sub down low, many people can hear a mis-match. They usually blame it on the sub being too "slow", but the real culprit is what the room interaction is doing to the sub's output; namely, imposing a highly audible and detrimental peak-and-dip pattern on it. This is a virtually inevitable acoustic problem, and imo the acoustic solution would be to use multiple smaller subs... two being better than one, and four better than two.
You see, the in-room smoothness improves proportionally as the number of separate in-room bass sources increases, and you can think of a dipole as two monopoles (back-to-back and in reverse polarity, with a wrap-around path length separating them). So four small subwoofers would be a fitting bass system for use with two dipole speakers, from the standpoint of extending the smoothness and "speed" of the dipoles down into the low bass region, adding chest-thumping impact along the way.
Given the $800 budget, it might make sense to start with two small subs, and plan on adding two more as the piggy bank recovers.
Duke
dealer/manufacturer
In going from two dipole speakers to a single monopole sub down low, many people can hear a mis-match. They usually blame it on the sub being too "slow", but the real culprit is what the room interaction is doing to the sub's output; namely, imposing a highly audible and detrimental peak-and-dip pattern on it. This is a virtually inevitable acoustic problem, and imo the acoustic solution would be to use multiple smaller subs... two being better than one, and four better than two.
You see, the in-room smoothness improves proportionally as the number of separate in-room bass sources increases, and you can think of a dipole as two monopoles (back-to-back and in reverse polarity, with a wrap-around path length separating them). So four small subwoofers would be a fitting bass system for use with two dipole speakers, from the standpoint of extending the smoothness and "speed" of the dipoles down into the low bass region, adding chest-thumping impact along the way.
Given the $800 budget, it might make sense to start with two small subs, and plan on adding two more as the piggy bank recovers.
Duke
dealer/manufacturer