Second Sub???

[moreira85]

Hey folks, I am running two Boston VR3s for mains VR910 for center and have a Boston Acoustic 10" PV1000 sub powered by sony DE875 reciever, It sounds really good but I have a question. I have a powered 12" Sub that I have lying around made by Sony. I know Sony doesnt make the best speakers but if you were me would you add the Sony sub with the boston acoustic? is it okay to have a 10" sub and a 12" and is it beneficial to have 2 subs? Thanks for the help.

 

[mtrycrafts]

Hey folks, I am running two Boston VR3s for mains VR910 for center and have a Boston Acoustic 10" PV1000 sub powered by sony DE875 reciever, It sounds really good but I have a question. I have a powered 12" Sub that I have lying around made by Sony. I know Sony doesnt make the best speakers but if you were me would you add the Sony sub with the boston acoustic? is it okay to have a 10" sub and a 12" and is it beneficial to have 2 subs? Thanks for the help.

sure you can do that. You'd have to be the judge of its success though. I cannot hear it here

 

[Nick250]

It's best to post a thread in just one forum. I responded in the other thread.

Nick

 

[darien87]

Hey folks, I am running two Boston VR3s for mains VR910 for center and have a Boston Acoustic 10" PV1000 sub powered by sony DE875 reciever, It sounds really good but I have a question. I have a powered 12" Sub that I have lying around made by Sony. I know Sony doesnt make the best speakers but if you were me would you add the Sony sub with the boston acoustic? is it okay to have a 10" sub and a 12" and is it beneficial to have 2 subs? Thanks for the help.

I don't see why it would be a problem to run a 10" and a 12" sub together. After all, we're just talking about mono frequencies here. Personally though, I HATE Sony, and will never buy another of their products. It seems like everything I ever bought from Sony broke at one time or another.

That said, I did the same thing. I originally had the Boston PV500, and found that it just didn't play low enough for me. So I ended up buying an Earthquake 10" sub and now I use them together. So I guess that makes my system a 5.2 set-up. All you gotta do is get a Y-splitter and split the signal from the LFE of your receiver and run cables to each of your subs. Works for me.

 

[samNOISE]

Dual Subs

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Dual subs rock! I run twin Paradigm 12's and would never go back to a single-sub setup! Hooker er' up man!

Andrew D.
cdnav.com
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[darien87]

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Dual subs rock! I run twin Paradigm 12's and would never go back to a single-sub setup! Hooker er' up man!

Andrew D.
cdnav.com
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You got it Sam.

I can't remember where I read it, but there was a thread on here a while back that had a link to a study done by Harman on multiple subs. The gist of it was that having multiple subs actually helped to flatten the frequency response and helped alleviate "hot spots". If I recall correctly, they recommended using 4 subs to get the best frequency response.

 

[mtrycrafts]

You got it Sam.

I can't remember where I read it, but there was a thread on here a while back that had a link to a study done by Harman on multiple subs. The gist of it was that having multiple subs actually helped to flatten the frequency response and helped alleviate "hot spots". If I recall correctly, they recommended using 4 subs to get the best frequency response.

Your memory is correct. Dr. Toole at Harman conducted such tests and was linked here at one time, perhaps is still on the home page here in one of the articles. I cannot find it at Harman anymore, probably because Toole retired at the end of the year.

 

[AVRat]

You can get it here: http://www.audiovideointeriors.com/images/archivesart/0106toolemultsubs.pdf

 

[mtrycrafts]

You can get it here: http://www.audiovideointeriors.com/images/archivesart/0106toolemultsubs.pdf

Great, thanks. This time I saved it. Hope I remember what title I gave it so I can find it among my bookmarks