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froggy76, modified 8 Years ago.
Speaker set up advice
Youngling Posts: 18 Join Date: 9/9/14 Recent Posts1038, modified 8 Years ago.
Re: Speaker set up advice
Jedi Master Posts: 340 Join Date: 4/6/09 Recent Postsi've covered this with you before, my strong recommendation for your room is a simple stereo pair of 8240's. In most rooms we get down to 30Hz without a sub, the big benefit of going DSP is how well GLM can tune the bass to your room.
The big cost in regards to bass is when you want high SPL at low frequencies, high SPL LF requires surface area and power. Your room is very open which will be a good thing in regards to tuning the frequency response of the speakers, unfortunately it is a bad thing when it comes to LF level, you wont get alot of boundary gain, so the speakers or sub have to work harder.
For a music system, i would always recommend a bigger pair of main speakers than a sub/sat solution. One of the major issues when playing music back is the sheer diversity of quality in the recordings, some sound anemic, some sound bloated, some sound great.... DVD/Blu Ray is much more consistent as the quality of studios mixing movies is generally much higher.
If you can't stretch to 8240's then the new 8330's would be my next recommendation. GLM will allow the amps to work much more efficiently. See attached Interactive Response Screen Shot of an 8240. The red trace is the in room measurement, the green trace is the eq'd result, as you can see there is extension down to 30Hz, but we've also effectively allowed the amp to work much less as we had 15+dB at 50Hz and give or take 7 - 8 Db gain from 40Hz to 100Hz, this eq provides for much cleaner bass and provides additional headroom for the amps.
