Tiered Subwoofer Integration? Who's Done It? Did It Work Well for You?

[EddNog]

Has anyone here set up a system with tiered subwoofers handling different bass spectrums? I currently have bookshelf speakers fully crossed over to a pair of smallish symmetrically placed, force-canceling stereo subwoofers at 160Hz, and I am thinking about adding a big, ported sub and fully crossing that over to the stereo ones at 60Hz. My setup will easily allow me to do it (I have a miniDSP Flex that is applying DIRAC Live room correction to my current 2.2 setup downstream and that preamp is handling the full bass management duties right now, so the miniDSP only sees a pure 2.0 system at the moment--I can just attach the new sub to the second pair of outputs and use the miniDSP to handle this level of the bass management). Am wondering if anyone else has tried this? I am looking to improve bottom end impact and extension with the big ported woofer (looking at SVS PC-2000 Pro) since the stereo ones are not currently reaching down as low as my previous sub (currently a pair of SVS 3000 Micros; before these, I had a single SVS SB-3000).

-Ed

 

[Buck Rogers]

My system for the past 7 years.

JBL 18" Sub bass X 2 @ 600 watts.
JBL 15" Mid bass X 2 @ 600 watts.
Altec/EV 30" Mid horn X 2 @ 300 watts.
Phenolic 18" Tweeter horn X 2 @ 300 watts.

Take the 18" subs away and turn it upside down to see the original system.

Crossovers are 40Hz, 450Hz and 1,500Hz.

The 18's push huge amounts of air but lack punch, The 15's bring the punch along with the massive Mid horn.

The imaging sounds the way a Dutch Master painting looks, Hyper realistic, perfectly laid out and proportioned.

 

[EddNog]

My system for the past 7 years.

JBL 18" Sub bass X 2 @ 600 watts.
JBL 15" Mid bass X 2 @ 600 watts.
Altec/EV 30" Mid horn X 2 @ 300 watts.
Phenolic 18" Tweeter horn X 2 @ 300 watts.

Take the 18" subs away and turn it upside down to see the original system.

Crossovers are 40Hz, 450Hz and 1,500Hz.

The 18's push massive amounts of air but lack punch, The 15's bring the punch along with the massive Mid horn.

The imaging sounds they way a Dutch Master painting looks, Hyper realistic, perfectly laid out and proportioned.

Wow! This must be an absolute wall of sound! Is the chair in the first pic at the main listening position?

-Ed

 

[Buck Rogers]

Oh YEAH~!

It's not a wall of sound it's closer to a "Pool" that you are immersed in.

I would say at least 20% of the sonic image is directly off to the sides and behind the listener.

Very spooky and wonderful to be "Inside" the music!

 

[EddNog]

...Very spooky and wonderful to be "Inside" the music!

Almost like headphones for your whole body!

-Ed

 

[Buck Rogers]

LOL... YES Full body workout.

The bass will lift you out of the chair!

I can play it at 118 DB and the sound does not hurt your ears it's so clean.

Helps to have a good front end.