On Mon, 22 May 2006 17:02:44 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:

All too well. For myself, I have taken what is probably the commonest
compromise path these days. I have professionally built speakers
(Sonus Faber Amators), and a home-built sub. There is no alternative
to home building for this sub because it is built into a concrete
under-stairs cupboard space. As such it has a huge internal volume and
works in effectively infinite baffle mode. This makes it very
non-boomy - musical in fact. It also goes very, very low in frequency.
It does need quite a few of those "expensive" watts, though ;-)


I don't need a sub for music, but then I've never really had a decent one!!
(We don't even use one on the Cinema setup, the afore-mentioned Ruarks do a
pretty good job without one.)

I think you would be pleasantly surprised by a decent sub (not one of
those horrid little home cinema things). It is a much easier project
than a full range speaker and once you get it dialled in (turn it down
until you can't hear it, then turn it up just a bit) it really does
add to the music, particularly for speakers that don't cover the
bottom couple of octaves like your horns.

d

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