Your sub experience: Easy or hard?

I put the subs between my speakers pointing them toward the wall.  Sat there for 20 yrs.  Then I  retired and started revisiting  my music setup.  Bought some bass traps and put springs under subs.  Before this the bass was boomier with standing waves.  Now the bass is rich, deep and much more satisfying.   I use a electronic crossover set at 100 Hz.  Adjusting the main speaker and sub levels is easy.  The bass sounds the same throughout the room.

Magico ASub not A1 Sub, sorry. Being used with A5’s.

I spent pretty significant time setting up my sub, but it was a labor of love. For reference,  I spent even more time setting up my analog front end--an ongoing exercise, and even more time than that finding the correct placement for my main speakers.

Two houses ago I had two Velodyne 12” subs and I NEVER thought that I had them setup perfectly. Now I have a SVS 2000Pro and the software is very helpful, but for my listening ( Bill Evans Diana Krall Jerry Garcia) I seem to forget to turn it on.

All the best.

JD

I have a McIntosh home theatre processor and a 250 watt per channel McIntosh amp into Klipsch La Scala speakers.  I use one SVS 2000 sub, located in a cabinet behind the right front speaker, which "vents" though what appears to be an air conditioning vent, but serves only the sub-woofer.  It remains on constantly.  I adjusted it once, during installation, with the free iPhone app, and have not touched it since.  It has worked flawlessly.  I do not notice it during streamed music, and it no doubt helps the La Scala's, which have a relatively high bass drop-off.  All speakers are "invisible."  I know it is there when, during movies, I get a big bass bang.  I have concluded that I do not need a second sub in the system.