Best subwoofer below 40Hz for Magnepan .7?

It has everything to do with the room, I agree. I’ve had some really good speakers in this room that just did not sound good due to their size , radiation pattern, required distance from wall.....etc. my last speakers were great but they sounded bloated when too close to the wall. The speakers before them were front ported and therefore worked better in this room and honestly were better. PSB M2 Platinum, wish I never sold those.....

I run my mains full range, they roll off around 60 and use the crossover to apply a crossover close to that and experiment with the freq. and slope until the bass is tight and no overlap to impart boominess

@@Eric Squires +1 !

FWIW, As an experiment, I picked up a pair of very inexpensive Andrew Jones 8" Pioneer subs. Frequency response starts about 40hz. They took at least 200 hours to break-in, and a few hours of experimentation as to placement, but they work surprisingly well with my .7’s. I wanted to find out if subs were even viable in my listening environment and were at least relatively compatible with the Maggies before I spent more money on a pair of better subs w/ room correction, which now will likely be my next step.

Overall, I’m pretty amazed at how good my rig sounds.

If you get an Antimode 8033 you will have a more sophisticated room equalization than in most subs, and you are not restricted to those subs that have such room eq. It is very easy to use and quite affordable.

Unclemode? For 150 bucks I highly recommend a Shiit Loki EQ, as long as you don’t need a balanced thing…or you can loop it…in any case, unlike a digital EQ that’s on all the time making decisions for you (unless it’s off), this thing has 4 bands to be used whenever you feel like it, and the lowest pot, centered at 20 hz, is a very useful lumpiness extractor...you get 4 knobs to play with so it’s also a useful cymbal enhancer and mid weirdness adjuster. Also can be used as a paperweight, a really bad flashlight, and if you remove the top that can be used as a mediocre ashtray. It’s extremely quiet with zero switching noise or bothersome snoring. I use mine sparingly but hey…it’s a cool gizmo. Schiit should pay me for this plug but do they? NO…damn...

The Antimode does a detailed analysis of the peaks, and then applies precise parametric equalization with 28 or 36 filters, i.e. it reduces the peaks targeted at precisely the required frequency, and with as narrow a range and as much amplitude as is needed. No fixed frequency equalizer like the Loki can get even close to the Antimode's accuracy.