I’ve just moved house. The lounge is bigger than my old place (now 5 x 8m). My kudos 606s sound more detailed and open in the larger space, but I think they need more lower end. I don’t want to change my speaker right now, so thought I might try a REL sub. Perhaps pick one up second hand?
Any recommendations on REL subs, or even the wireless gizmos they have?
I could probably pick up a T5x for say £300-400? Is that a waste, or worth a try? If you only have 1 sub, where do you put it if it can’t go centre stage? Wireless gismo and behind you, or just next to one of your speakers?
The REL webpage has lots of useful advice, including choosing a sub for certain size rooms, speaker matching and positioning of one vs two subs etc. Also connection options, although a quick search here will also give you a lot on the latter.
Wired connection is fairly simple. I have no experience of wireless.
I have a Tzero. It does ‘enough’ for me in my second system space. In your room I would think a T5 might be a smidge too small. Maybe one size up, or two T5s? A pair seems to be a preferred option for many on here. Again the search will help you, as will a home dem of course
Bruce
PS I just checked and Kudos don’t appear on their speaker matching menu!
I think my living room sucks out bass. Running 606 via 250NC. Similar size room to yours and listening position across the narrower dimension. Off axis bass huge but listening position cancelled (not phase issue I checked). Either way I picked up an ex dem t9/x to give it a go and very happy. Might go to an s series if I can squeeze it in. Worth a go I would say
First play with positioning - most importantly listening position as well as speaker positions, and be prepared to be radical, with complete change of layout, sotting a lot closer/further, different orientation etc. REW software with a measuring microphone can speed up significantly. If it were me I would only look at other solutions like a sub when sure I’d tried all else, as otherwise it is possible if sitting at a major room cancellation point that the same would happen with subs…
If I have the record and it’s a decent pressing then I prefer the P6. If the pressing isn’t great then streaming preferred. The XS is pretty old now and not the most refined I expect. I originally wanted a system to play vinyl so the streamer was a bit of a stopgap. I do use a Wiim to feed HiRes to the XS dac (and for when the XS loses its connection) and that is good but will ultimately need to sort the streamer out properly. Overall prefer the warmth of vinyl
Thank you, fair comments. Have bought the mic but not had a chance to use yet. Will be a job for Christmas. Moving the positioning radically ie changing the room layout is limited by other stuff in the room that can’t be moved (eg a piano, underfloor cable conduits) and household harmony! The current position of the speakers I spent some time (before the sub) working out and in the end bass response drove a position fairly near the rear wall. I bought the sub to try it knowing that I needed it on another system. It definitely improved things so it didn’t get taken out. Was going to use the mic/rew to see what else the sub was doing and if I could reposition to optimise the rest of the curve as can control bass separately. After that might look at acoustic treatments. For choice when I bought the speakers I would not have wanted a sub. Now I think it definitely adds so want to optimise what I get from the speakers and then supplement with sub