I was going to skip your thread and thought you were full of hot air until I read your whole post.How cool it was...let me add,
I think what needs to be addressed is a sub which is managing LFE and the bass from five to six other channels needs to be a bear.It needs to be seven subs in one.So where do we go from there.If you are interested in getting true deep down bass you better be willing to build your own or spend huge bucks on manufactured particleboard boxes with crappy plate amps and drivers that are so taxed out at modest levels the whole system suffers.
Building your own sub is the only way to go.First pick a world class driver from Adire.Brahma,Tumult ect.Then get yourself mono amps like Adcom GFA 555mkII's (one for each driver)Then get a good parametric eq like a Behringer 1124p . Now you need a cabinet maker that can build you some two inch thick MDF cabinets to your specs.Stuff those bad boys with some pink owens corning and sit down and listen.
Bass is expensive and there are no if,ands or buts.I have tryed every combination and it all lead to DIY in the sub dept.
You will need to get a test disc or better yet a signal generator.A sound pressure meter and a big pad of scrap paper.I don't care what size your room is and who gave you the numbers but it has at least two room modes and a bunch of harmonics that go along with them.Start to sweep the freq. up and down, up and down,back and forth, until you could hear those damn humps in your sleep.One by one you will start to kill those damn humps(roommodes) until the sweeps yeild a +3db/-3db freq. response.If you can get better go for it.Oh yeh people have gotten better freq. response but that works for me.
Exertfluffer is right on and I had to add to his reply.I'm sorry if my post insults your sub but I sold manufacture subs and one or two stepped up to the plate And for that price I built two that crush them all.
It took me twenty years to find all the parts but what I learned along the way was worth it all.Good luck Goners!!
I think what needs to be addressed is a sub which is managing LFE and the bass from five to six other channels needs to be a bear.It needs to be seven subs in one.So where do we go from there.If you are interested in getting true deep down bass you better be willing to build your own or spend huge bucks on manufactured particleboard boxes with crappy plate amps and drivers that are so taxed out at modest levels the whole system suffers.
Building your own sub is the only way to go.First pick a world class driver from Adire.Brahma,Tumult ect.Then get yourself mono amps like Adcom GFA 555mkII's (one for each driver)Then get a good parametric eq like a Behringer 1124p . Now you need a cabinet maker that can build you some two inch thick MDF cabinets to your specs.Stuff those bad boys with some pink owens corning and sit down and listen.
Bass is expensive and there are no if,ands or buts.I have tryed every combination and it all lead to DIY in the sub dept.
You will need to get a test disc or better yet a signal generator.A sound pressure meter and a big pad of scrap paper.I don't care what size your room is and who gave you the numbers but it has at least two room modes and a bunch of harmonics that go along with them.Start to sweep the freq. up and down, up and down,back and forth, until you could hear those damn humps in your sleep.One by one you will start to kill those damn humps(roommodes) until the sweeps yeild a +3db/-3db freq. response.If you can get better go for it.Oh yeh people have gotten better freq. response but that works for me.
Exertfluffer is right on and I had to add to his reply.I'm sorry if my post insults your sub but I sold manufacture subs and one or two stepped up to the plate And for that price I built two that crush them all.
It took me twenty years to find all the parts but what I learned along the way was worth it all.Good luck Goners!!