Originally Posted by George Mills
c) People assume anything below 80hz is the same exact content on every channel as well as LFE. Lumping it all onto one channel loses content (that's MY OPINION). The argument is bass below 80hz has no direction. There are quite a few folks that think otherwise. It may be higher freq harmonics generated or what ever. But true stereo subs sound better than two mono subs.

Here I'm in agreement with George. It's very hard to get rid of sub localization, perhaps even more so with multiple subs.

Early into my calibration, despite having both subs time and phase aligned at the crossover point, and despite close to perfect measured combined response at the listening position, I could still hear the bass "swimming" around the room with frequency. It wasn't until I first equalized each sub independently, and then equalized the combined pair, that the localization went away and a stable sound stage returned.


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