RE: Mye 2 cents

RE: Mye 2 cents

Posted by Jim Smith (P) on May 14, 2012 at 05:46:43

In Reply to: RE: Mye 2 cents posted by ahendler on May 13, 2012 at 20:26:08:

I have used one sub for many years and had very musical results.

I'm sure you have.

But you would have had significantly more musical involvement from two, at least with any acoustic recordings, from solo voice to guitar to full symphony.

The extra sub isn't about better bass - its about a more believable and more musically compelling sound, more presence in your listening room, the seeming ability to reach out and touch a performer in your room.

The music can have no apparent bass at all, and yet this happens.

One sub cancels phase information that can help to produce spatial cues. Doesn't mean that you can't enjoy it, because you can.

However, it does mean that the performance has been compromised all this time.

As I've found over many hundreds, maybe thousands of installations, I'd rather have two pretty good subs than one great one. In fact, I'd usually rather have no subs than one that destroyed the critical information that helps us suspend our disbelief and allow the illusion of performers to be in the room.

All this is predicated on a two-channel system however - not multi-channel with its .1 mono effects channel.

Aslo, if you can hear the sub as a source of sound, it's set up wrong.

Best regards,

Jim Smith

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