Thread: Need a CR-1?
View Single Post
  #21  
Old 05-23-2019, 08:39 AM
crwilli's Avatar
crwilli crwilli is offline
Racing Hoopties

 
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Bluffton SC
Posts: 9,768
Default

I am a firm believer, from first hand experience, in measuring your room and knowing what you are dealing with.

If you have flat bass down to the lower limits of your main speakers, you can run a sub without a crossover and just blend it in at the lowest octaves to fill things in. That is what I did with my Fathom in my old room.

If however, you do not have flat bass down to the limits of your mains as is the case with my system in my new room, you are likely to be able to achieve great bass by strategically locating a sub and using a crossover.

In either case, you could use a JL Audio Fathom or likely, an REL. I suspect any high end sub will have its own low pass filter and / or accept a control signal from a crossover. I love how my Fathom can be used and fine tuned in many different situations.

Measure your room and then let us know what kind of low end you have. From there, you will get more factual based input.
__________________
Main Equipment: Kharma Elegance dB11-S, JL Audio F113v2 X 2, Block Audio Line & Mono SE Amplification, Bricasti M21 DAC, Antipodes Kala K-50 Server
Power: Shunyata Everest 8000, Sigma XC v2, Sigma NR v2, Block Audio PCs, Defender, ADDPowr Wizard
Grounding: Shunyata Altaira CGS - 4 X Alpha CGS cables,
Network : Supra Cat 8+, Twin (Nenon) Modified Buffalo GS2016 Switches, Keces P3 LPSU,
Cables: Wireworld Platinum 8 USB, Wireworld Platinum Eclipse 8 Speaker cables, 6M & 1M Tubulus Concentus ICs,
Other: Multiple GIK products, Stillpoint Apertures, Stillpoint Minis and Ultra SS, Three 20 Amp lines, Furutech GTX - Gold outlets, Adona Rack
Reply With Quote