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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Low B on a 5 string electric bass is 31hz (ref A440), Jaco on Cotton Ave tuned his e string way lower than low b on the intro. Synth produced bass ...well that's another story and some of it is really good like Bela Flek etc...

Having read many comments on this discussion forum I can say that about the only thing that most people agree on is that REL subs are really good. I have yet to read a negative comment about an REL sub (let the negativity commence). I say go for it.

From my experience with all my systems over the years,

(answers to your two questions in the second paragraph)

1 Yes

2 Yes