iPhone wrote: > . > It is really hard to match/beat REL Acoustic or Vandersteen subwoofers > if one is looking for musical truth and not just noisy BOOM. The huge > advantage Vandersteen has is if one is using separates so that the > Vandersteen subwoofer can be acquire its signal from being installed > between the pre-amp and amplifier. This also removes the low frequency > duties from the system amplifier so it sounds and preforms better also. > I prefer subwoofer pairs so that the bass from each channel is handled > specifically by its own drive/voice coil instead of it being blended > between a single dual voice coil. Yes true bass frequencies are not > directional or in what one would call true stereo, but in properly > recorded music, the actual left and right bass tracks are NOT identical > hence I prefer to have an actual left and right subwoofer.
Hi iPhone! Whilst some 2-channel separate pre-amps have subwoofer outputs (which will doubtless have some low-pass filtering applied, otherwise they would be no different from regular variable-level power amplifier outputs, as opposed to the fixed-level outputs usually denoted as "tape outputs" - whether anyone still uses the latter is questionable), this does *-not-* usually imply that the signal fed to the separate power amplifier or monoblocs will be subjected to a corresponding high-pass filter, since not everyone uses the subwoofer outputs. Some integrated stereo amplifiers (-e.g.- the Pathos Acoustics INPOL-2) also have stereo line-level subwoofer outputs. The only amplifiers which definitely will apply high-pass filtering at the line level beyond a line subwoofer output are multi-channel home cinema amplifiers specifically designed to be used with a 5(or 7 or 9!).1 (or 2!) loudspeaker configuration. So I suspect that your power amplifier(s) are still handling all of the low frequencies & delivering them to your stereo speakers (I am however in full agreement with your preference for twin subwoofers wired up in stereo to distribute the extreme LF soundwaves around your listening room & thus give rise to less room resonance issues)... Dave :cool: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Golden Earring's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66646 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108865 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
