Howdy,
I’ve had my M80’s for about two weeks now and could use some educating from y’all regarding sub woofers. I am not an audiophile or anything remotely close to it. I’m learning from scratch here, so please bear with my ignorance.
I’m driving the speakers with a Harmon Kardon 7200. I have them set up on the ‘second zone’ which is actually the 6 and 7th channels for the surround back. The speakers sound great with plenty of base, mids and highs, and will play louder than I can stand. But at lower volumes, something just seems to be lacking and I can’t resist the urge to turn up the volume, which is counter productive to conversations when I have guests over. Several folks here advised me that I would need a sub, and they would appear to have been correct. I was trying to avoid a sub due to the room lay out, but now I’m thinking that a sub would help fill the room with some light background sound when I have parties where folks actually want to communicate with each other. I have another string that I started a few weeks back when I was shopping for speakers. That string has my room specifics. In summery, it’s a 26 X 32 open room with vaulted ceilings.
Here’s my earlier thread……..
http://www.audioholics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3228
I am looking for suggestions / input in regards to running a stereo sub woofer in this space with the M80’s. I don’t know squat about subs, what types there are, how they are hooked up, powered, where to put them, etc…. Some questions I have are, do I need a separate amp to run one under the multi room function through the pre-outs, or can I still use the surround back amps to power the speakers and a sub woofer both? It would seem a shame to not be able to take advantage of the HK’s power. Do some subs sound better with music than HT? Does size really matter?
……..mike
