Just added a 15 yrs old sub that was on my home theater that I am not using it any more to try out on Cary SLI-80 yesterday. Wow, unbelievable the soundstage opened up a lot more with very big noticeable. But the volume was very low and not happy with it so I took the sub out. Somehow after I connected RCA to sub outputs on SLI-80, the volume was lower right away.
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Some products have including speakers benefit of subwoofer but not all of. Now a days, Ceiling Speakers have
including features of
subwoofer. So, he said truth at some level. |
The low frequency capability (listed as -3db) of most main speakers is generally where not much bass is going on and that's fine…thinking my Silverline Preludes with 3.75" (larger than the 3.5" listed, but still) woofers get any real bass at the 35hz point or whatever they claim is easily tested with a low frequency test tone…yeah…there is some sound at that frequency but really you have to get to the 50hz and above point to see where they start to lose bass output. This is fine with me though as they sound amazing, especially with the RELs I use with 'em…musical subs are exactly that and I put mine at around that 50hz point so they blend perfectly in my listening room at from normal to loud levels. |
Wolf_garcia, I agree, there is not much activity at 30Hz. Another story is frequency response in the room. My room amplifies about 30-35Hz extending response a bit, but extension is less important to me, than quality of the bass. My speakers play all bass notes pretty much even, free of resonances. Attack and decay of the string sounds very natural and undistorted. Widely used overhang motor woofers often have huge distortions reaching 5%. My speakers are also (judging by the size of the magnets) overhang, but don't have bottom suspension (spiderweb). This suspension adds to membrane's weight, slowing response, and affecting linearity of the motion.
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