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Subwoofer for classical music listener

This is my second post on the subject of subwoofers.
My first post wasn't specific enough.
I listen to classical music 90% of the time.
Are there any classical music listeners out there who have subwoofers?
if there are, could you let me know what you have?
i don't imagine I would need quite as powerful or expensive a sub as those who mainly listen to other types of music, but I may be wrong.

rvpiano

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If one's sub can be integrated using a mere 1st order high-pass filter (6dB/octave), there is a simple, easy, transparent way to accomplish that. Just solder a capacitor of the correct value (the formula for determining that value can be found on the 'net---it involves the power amp's input impedance and the desired corner frequency) on the power amps input jacks.
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I found a lot of SVS' advice questionable. I went with Rythmik instead.
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Two ideas regarding subs that I consider very true and important are:

1- You shouldn’t hear a sub. A good subwoofer placed optimally in a room should just make the loudspeaker it is augmenting sound as if it now has response to a lower frequency. It should be invisible.

2- It is often the eigenmodes of the room you are hearing when adding a sub to a loudspeaker, the lower frequencies now reproduced exciting the rooms resonant modes, rather than the sub itself. "Room boom" is often incorrectly attributed to the sub(s).

The best way to minimize both the above is to employ dipole subs, rather than monopoles. A dipole sub excites fewer room modes (no sidewall-to-sidewall, dipoles having a null to either side), leading to fewer standing waves. The Magneplanar Tympani bass panel is a great, musical sub, as is the GR Research/Rythmik OB/Dipole Direct Servo-Feedback Sub.

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