[Arny Krueger]

"Eeyore" m
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dizzy wrote:
Bill Graham wrote:

All you really need is one good bolted down woofer,

It need not be bolted-down, of course.

and all the other speakers can be small and relatively
cheap, and you get a fantastic sound system.

Sure. The amplifiers for the "main" speakers can be
smaller as well. Subwoofers can be the way to go, in
many, if not most, situations.

Ahhhhhh, the fetid smell of the omnidirectional bass myth.

There's only a myth if one takes an extreme position.

Given that people use subwoofers crossed over at 125 Hz (LFE) or higher
(small 2.1 computer speaker systems) then the so-called bass can be at high
enough of a frequency to be directional.

If the two high range speakers go down to 50 Hz and are six feet apart, then
the bass from a subwoofer positioned between them is practiacally
omnidirectional.

If your listening room is 25 feet wide, you put a subwoofer on each side of
your listening position, and we consider that the ear can actually hear
phase changes at frequencies this low, then bass may indeed be directional.