It all has to do with room gain. Depending on where the woofers are placed in a room the bass will couple to the room and intensity will increase. Now the question will be is the gain uniform. Woofers placed at ear height way from any walls have very little room gain, while speakers placed on the floor in a corner will have 10 to 20 times as much bass. What you need to know from reading manuals and recommendations from B&W is how they recommend each speaker be placed in a room. The answers are there. With that understanding and reading about listening positions in a room you will come closer to success. Or you can do it the easy way and place the speakers in locations of your desire and pick a seating position that works with traffic flow and install either a Lyngdorf processor or A Mcintosh MEN220 using the same patented technology and voice your speakers for the best results in your room. I f you use subs use one for each stereo speaker. Summing LF doesn't work if you want to keep faithful reproduction of the stereo signal. If the harmonics of the bass arrive at one time and the fundamental another, the bass will never feel right. And don't pick a full range speaker that isn't faithful to 25 HZ, anything higher will be short changing you on the experience of faithful reproduction. I prefer line arrays as they negate room difficulties and increase faithful reproduction. A point source speaker spreads sound all over a room confusing imaging and giving a false impression of space that's not on the recording.
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