To Sub or not to Sub...?


...Or to buy best full range speakers i can afford? For listening classical music.
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jayboard, if this worked, it'd be purely coincidental - what if your room resonance was @ 120hz? i don't tink ewe wood wanna raise the monitors' x-over point to, say, 140hz, and the subs' to 100hz, yust to deal w/this, if better integration between sub-monitor were, say - 60hz. ideally, ewe set the x-over point as low as possible... there are good (& expensive) room-equalizers awailable that are designed to tame room-dependent frequency abberations...

one feature that my marchand x-over has, that makes it easier to integrate my subs w/my monitors is a separate wolume control *at* the x-over point, as well as wolume controls for the subs & the monitors. i have it set at -2db, which works best, w/my speakers, in my room. this was verified w/a pink-noise generator & spectrum analyzer.

regards, doug s.

thanx, Doug, I wasn't thinking of this as a general, primary strategy for setting up a sub. However, I was thinking that many minimonitor users might have rooms large enough that their speakers would not excite the fundamental (if that's the right word) resonance frequency of their rooms, and that going full-range might introduce this new problem. Equalizers and room treatment aside, what I was actually thinking was that I had read mentions or recommendations about people dialing in subs so that their sub and main speakers bracket the problem resonance frequency. I think REL may suggest this. So, I was wondering if any Agon'ers had set up with this as a factor, how the discontinuity between sub and mains affected integration of sound, etc.
I went with Watt/Puppy 5.1 (used), and boy am i disappointed in puppy bass performance! Can U ad Sub to already subwoofer designed system? Or should i look into Monitor/activeSub combination. My new amp is Sonic Frontiers 3. Detlof, Lindemann....?