As others have said, absolutely go with two. Your room isn’t all that big, and two E110s will be more than sufficient as they go down to 23Hz -3dB. If it was me I’d get two Rhythmic F12Gs as you can get two for just a little more than one E110, and the F12G goes down to 14Hz. Either way, two good subs are better than one bigger one especially for music. Just my $0.02 FWIW.
Would you choose 1 ou 2 subwoofers for a stereo set?
Would you choose 1 bigger sub or 2 smaller ones?
For a living room 6 x 8 meters (speakers on the smaller side). (3.5meters high)
Mcintosh MA9000 + BW802 D3
I listen mostly to digital audio (DAC / Streamer)
Looking into 1 JL Audio 13" or 2 JL Audio 10"
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@gladmo: NoRez is a great product. Since I built sealed enclosures for the Rythmik 15" kit, I braced the Hell out of them: 1.5" x 1.5" Baltic Birch ply braces (doubled pieces of 0.75" x 1.5") every 6" inches, in all three planes: front-to-back, left-to-right, top-to-bottom. The braces take up a lot of internal volume, so the boxes ended up being rather large (for 15" subs): 24" tall and deep, 18" wide. When you do that NoRez is not necessary. Danny Richie recommends NoRez for even his GR Research open baffle subs and loudspeakers, on the large unsupported (structurally) panels. |
I use two but I have used a distributed bass array of four placed asymmetrically within the room which eliminated all the rooms standing wave bass modes and provided immediate sense of timing or room loading. I've since manage a similar but not as total effect with two bass mode carefully positioned subs. JL Audio makes a potent high quality product. Personally I found their F113 automatic / frequency only optimization lacking the flexibility of added manual adjustability. This Youtube shows the Quality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ10cQ9O2L8
FYI, since REL are -6dB "Sub-Bass Systems" their frequency rolloff begins so early they usually don't excite a rooms standing wave bass modes allowing for greater flexibility of positioning at the cost of actual subwoofer extra low frequency presentation. Claims of superior musicality are purely subjective. |
TWO subs for sure….2 subs are sonically better than one, even huge one. I don’t think 2 10” subs will properly pressurize your space. Unless you’re only listening to acoustical jazz you will sense something is missing. I have multiple SBS subs that do a great job in my HT room but for two channel listening I would go in that direction. Get two subs to compliment your lovely B&Ws. JL or REL should be you’re candidates. 10” subs will be lacking in your large space. First choice for me would be two JL F112 V2s. They are very fast and the built in DSP room correction is fantastic and a relatively small footprint. +WAF. THE RELa are great but have less power and don’t hit the same. Good luck and cheers |
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