I use a Martin Logan Depth with Von Schweikert VR-1's.
I'm getting a second Depth to do stereo subs.
It is not perfectly seamless but that is more a function of the room and the fact that I have to live around the equipment (can't set it up where it sounds as good as it could). It does sound very good though.
I use the high pass filter on the ML to filter out some of the low level information from the VR-1's. I can't hear any added vailing but the midrange did improve. Soundstage depth was also improved. Teh amplifier is not having to reproduce very low frequencies and neither is the midwoofer.
The ML sub uses three 8" woofers to give you the surface area of a large woofer but the speed of a small one. Vandersteen also uses three 8" woofers I think.
A good subwoofer can improove a 2ch set-up. Just be sure that there is not too great of an overlap between the LF rolloff of the speaker and the HF rolloff of the sub. This will cause cancelation and overall bad sound.
Good luck!
I'm getting a second Depth to do stereo subs.
It is not perfectly seamless but that is more a function of the room and the fact that I have to live around the equipment (can't set it up where it sounds as good as it could). It does sound very good though.
I use the high pass filter on the ML to filter out some of the low level information from the VR-1's. I can't hear any added vailing but the midrange did improve. Soundstage depth was also improved. Teh amplifier is not having to reproduce very low frequencies and neither is the midwoofer.
The ML sub uses three 8" woofers to give you the surface area of a large woofer but the speed of a small one. Vandersteen also uses three 8" woofers I think.
A good subwoofer can improove a 2ch set-up. Just be sure that there is not too great of an overlap between the LF rolloff of the speaker and the HF rolloff of the sub. This will cause cancelation and overall bad sound.
Good luck!