I have a cheaper sub (Gallo Acoustics TR3) which I enjoyed setting up with my Spendor D7.2s. Before that I just didn’t have the low end in the room, with the sub it filled out the sound how I like it. Took a few days of moving it around, getting up repeatedly to change settings etc, but I am now very happy with it and feel it is as well integrated as it could be. From this experience I wondered what a better sub could do and auditioned a REL S/510 at a dealer with my same speakers, I spent a whole 2 hours trying to get it to integrate and couldn’t, it was always too present. This was even having the gain close to its lowest setting, it just sounded so boomy. It was very frustrating as I thought a better sub would enhance my system but perhaps it was too much sub despite RELs website recommending it. I also wondered if the dealer had set it up wrong given I could barely turn up the gain without it booming through the room. So I’ve had a mixed experience, however in my current system I love my subs integration and wouldn’t be without it.
Your sub experience: Easy or hard?
For those of us with subwoofers, I'm curious whether you thought integrating it was easy or difficult. That's it.
Of course, lots of DBA people will chime in. No problem but please ask that everyone stay on topic. If you want to discuss all the pro's and cons of DBA take it to a brand new thread. Thank you.
The focus here is just to ask how many people had easy or difficult times and what you thought was the difference.