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My experience adding subwoofers to 2 channel

My Kappa 9 speakers are rated to 29hz and they sound pretty good in my 18x24 room...powered by McIntosh mc1.25 amps...l was looking for another layer of bass to enhance the sound..my first experiment l took my SVS pb16 ultras from my theater room and tried them first...it sounded terrible,didn't blend well..couldn't hear a difference until you turned in up then it rattled the room apart........my final experiment worked..l used 4 Velodyne minivee subwoofers(1000 watt rms class D sealed 8 in.) and after hours of calibration l hit it......lve got the bass response that exeeded my expectations. ....l should have done this along time ago....can anybody tell me of another subwoofer that may work even better?
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zarathu
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I have used a tri-amped electronically crossed three way line array system that I built myself.  This worked seamlessly.  The 12 inch woofers worked well as subs essentially running 32- 250 hz.

I am currently building a new system to go downstairs(sine my wife commandeered the other one for watching movies upstairs).

This one will be a Quad amped electronically crossed  line array: per side:  15 ribbon tweeters, 25- 2 inch midranges, one 8 inch mid woofer, and one 12 inch sub woofer.  

Electronic crossovers(digital or analog) are the key to making this work, IMO.
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