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Default Subwoofers! Etc.

On 10/02/2021 10:20 am, geoff wrote:
On 9/02/2021 10:59 pm, Don Pearce wrote:
On Fri, 5 Feb 2021 09:00:30 -0000 (UTC), gregz
wrote:

Ty Ford wrote:
Hi,

After years of not caring about subwoofers, I finally got onboard after
hearing a modest one on a Polk system that we got for Kathy's living
room
flat panel TV. This is a combo system with small table mount speaker
cluster and a modest bluetooth wireless sub. It's a MagniFi Miini
https://www.polkaudio.com/en-us/prod...s/magnifi-mini

Hearing the sub made me wonder what the Onkyo receiver/amp in my living
room might sound like with a sub. I've been running it as a 5.0 system
for 15 years. I have a friend who used to work for Polk so I asked him.
He said he likes the largest one. The HTS 12. 200W RMS, 400W peak. OK,
fine! My Onkyo has a Subwoofer output spigot, so easy peasy.

https://www.polkaudio.com/en-us/prod...woofers/hts-12

Not a huge difference on CDs so far, but movies with 5.1 or more...Wow.
We watched "Hook" a few nights ago and John Williams' score was HUGE.

So, how do we feel about subs?

I don't like too much unnatural annoying bass sounds on movies. I think
with room gain, needs at Least -6 dB subtracted.

In movies it is called LFE - Low Frequency Effects. So don't expect
anything natural. It's only put there to annoy.

d



Take away the LFE and these days there would be much of a movie left.
'Action-movies' at least.

geoff


Ooops. Make that " wouldn't ".

geoff