Will I benefit from a subwoofer with 20Hz speakers?


My source is a minidsp shd studio with Dirac going into Denafrips Gaia DDC to Denafrips T+ DAC to McIntosh 601 Monoblocks to Cabasse Pacific 3 speakers. The speaker's published frequency response is 41-20,000Hz. I presume this is achieved in an anechoic chamber. In my room however, it goes down to 20Hz, at least according to the Dirac measurements. In fact, I needed to flatten the curve and  reduce by 5-20 DBs between 20-100Hz due to the room effect.

So, considering I already go down to 20Hz, is there anything else 1 or 2 subwoofers will do for my system?  Would it create a more consistent low frequency field? I see many people adding up to 6 subs, so I wonder what I'm missing. 

Thank you for your insight! 

dmilev73

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Thank you for this Erik. I have never used this, so I will spend some time going over it. Here is what came up based on my room size of 16X18X8 feet. https://amcoustics.com/tools/amroc?l=487&w=549&h=244&r60=0.6

Here is a photo of my measurements (took me forever to figure out how). 😁

They are taken from the listening position. As you can see, I had to even reduce the low frequencies by quite a bit. 

 

 

 

Here is a review of the speakers. In the 3rd paragraph it mentions the frequency range. 

I also included a couple of screenshots conforming it is 41 Hz. 

 

https://www.ultraaudio.com/index.php/equipment-menu/356-cabasse-pacific-3-loudspeakers

 

 

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