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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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I've found the optimal room location for the main Speakers ability present a sound stage is usually not one of the rooms  optimal bass modes.There are simply too many room and system variables as well as your personal taste. 

Map your rooms bass modes using the crawl test standing up. Then order some long XLR or RCA interconnect form Blue Jeans or Mono Price.

If your in the U.S. SVS Subwoofers offer what seems to be a simply painless trial period.

I believe their products provide a functional amount of remote equalization, optimization, and gain along with three customizable memory presets that might better match your main speakers low frequency presentation.

Subwoofer single processing is vastly different and typically limiting. Best of luck with it.  

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