"dizzy" wrote in message

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:50:38 -0500, "Arny Krueger"
wrote:

The Studio 100s are big enough a speaker to derive good
bass without
the addition of the subwoofer.

It would take more than a trivial subwoofer to improve
it. Fortunately there are a number of very nontrivial
subwoofers.

Even Paradigm admits that the 7" woofers are good down to
only 28 Hz. From what I've heard of this series, that's
like 5-10 Hz optimistic.

"Only" 28Hz?

You ignored the fact that IME the 28 Hz spec is up to 10 Hz
optimistic. IOW I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised
that Studio 100s might only respond cleanly and strongly
down to 38 Hz by my standards.

How much musical information is there down there, anyway?

IME there is quite a bit of musical information in many
recordings down to 32 Hz, and there are additional
non-musical sounds that contribute to the sense of liveness
below that. Furtheremore, there are exceptional recordings
with musical sounds down to 16 Hz and below.

Almost none.

It wasn't a rhetorical question, and your answer is rather
err, limited.