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Help deciding on REL 328 -- size vis a vis rooms? Match w/ speakers? Buy or wait?
Hello hile45,     In any room and pair of main speakers, it's been my experience that a pair of subs will perform and sound about twice as good as a single sub.     A 3 or 4 sub distributed bass array (DBA) system will not only typically provide t... 
Bass in a bad space
     GIK is the company b_limo was trying to think of that offers free diagnostics.  Good company that I recently had a free room analysis from and ordered some of their reasonably priced room treatments.  But I haven't received/installed them yet... 
Life After Your Magnepan’s
Hello stickman451,     If you read the article on multiple subs I linked to in my last post, you'll have noticed they recommend the use of mics, a computer, room frequency response analysis software and other technical equipment and procedures for... 
Life After Your Magnepan’s
Hello stickman451,     If you read the article on multiple subs I linked to in my last post, you'll have noticed they recommend the use of mics, a computer, room frequency response analysis software and other technical equipment and procedures for... 
Subwoofers and Phase Question For You Sub Experts
     Okay, I'm back and have more time now, so I'll just pick up where I left off in my last post.     However, I realize you already own two good quality subs which I also know should work well if the subs are properly located and configured and ... 
Subwoofers and Phase Question For You Sub Experts
Rooze:"Just to describe the problem a little more fully - I have my mains about 75 inches from the front wall and with the mains only I get an excellent perspective, sense of depth and space, and very focused imaging. By perspective I mean that th... 
Life After Your Magnepan’s
Hello stickman451,     Here are a couple of articles that a site that discuss 3-sub bass arrays that might prove useful:  https://mehlau.net/audio/multisub_geddes/  I know 3 subs can be effective as 4 if positioned and configured properly.Good luc... 
Life After Your Magnepan’s
Hello gammonit_2000,     I agree completely, the LRS are excellent and might be the biggest audio bargain in decades. I’ve used four different models of Magnepans in my systems during the past forty years and I had the best results with high powe... 
Life After Your Magnepan’s
Hello stickman 451,     Are you sure you really want to move on from your Magnepan 20.7s?  I believe you'll likely regret it for numerous reasons that will likely become painfully obvious once you switch to any other speaker options anywhere near ... 
New Years Resolution .......
mofimadness: "My take on it has always been, that the artist made and sequenced the album that way and I should listen that way..."     As far as I'm concerned, it should be a felony offense to listen to an artist's album out of exact sequential o... 
New Years Resolution .......
     Uh-oh!  I've been living every day as if it's my first.    Woops. I don't want to stop now just because I got it a tiny bit wrong!    It's really been a lot of fun thus far because there are none of those pesky, party pooping qualifiers like ... 
Levinson 5805
Hello no_money,    Very kind of you, thanks! I live in Indiana but if I'm ever going to be in your neck of the woods, I just might take you up on that offer and pm you.    Awesome news on the replacement amp. I was wondering if it could have b... 
Subwoofers and Phase Question For You Sub Experts
Hello Duke,    I'm just glad you were following this thread and willing to give such a detailed and informative answer to my question. It all makes perfect sense to me.....Again..... and I'm sorry you needed to repeat your excellent explanation ... 
Levinson 5805
Hello no_money, Ouch, you’ve had some bad luck recently. Yes, I had a fairly hefty budget and, with a willingness to buy used, it effectively gave me the pick of the litter in terms of a high quality preamp, my only prerequisite being a means of H... 
Subwoofers and Phase Question For You Sub Experts
millercarbon:"Exactly. Two completely different animals. This may be one of the hardest parts of the whole thing to understand. Though granted, the whole DBA approach relies on a number of hard to understand concepts. No one of them really so much...