timbre
Posted
7 years 3 weeks ago
I've just purchased Triton 2+ towers, and I'm considering adding an ext sub.
My room is 29-1/2' long x 11-1/2' to 14' wide. There are two doorways to other rooms.
My speakers should have plenty of bass, but after Audyessy tuning, there seems to be a lack of bass in the Main Listening Position, which is midway between the side walls, and 15' from the front wall, almost exactly in the center of the room.
I'm considering adding a sub placed right beside the MLP, firing at the side of the chair. This is mainly for music listening, although it is a 7.1 HT system. I rarely watch action movies, so my bass requirement are not particularly loud or even very low in frequency. Mostly electric bass guitar and kick drum on pop, rock and jazz recordings. I don't listen at very high volumes. Just for reference, I am satisfied with the bass from my 8" 100 watt Paradigm subwoofer in another room, so I should be easy to please. Any advice is appreciated.
Now I'm trying to wrap my head around a way to hook up an external sub while my main speakers have built in powered subs. If I understand my Denon AVRX4400 correctly, if I set my mains to Large, I'll only get LFE through the ext sub unless I choose to send full bass out to all the subs, which will result in "double bass" to my towers. Ideally, I'd like to use the Audyssey room calibration to set up the main speakers running as "large," and then have the ext sub as an addon, with perhaps an 80 Hz low pass, delivering all bass including LFE to add a bit of fill in the center of the room. Any advice would be appreciated.
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