sadanorakman
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Just Moving into a detached bungalow, and will buying an Onkyo 818 for it's Auddyssey XT32, to replace my 8-ish Year old Yamaha DSPAX750.
I currently Use B&W 685's Fronts, HTM62 Centre, and M-1's For Rears. The 685's sound truly fantastic to my ears... The most musical, airy, natural speakers that I have ever owned. The Centre and rears are fair enough for the money, and they match the timbre of the fronts well so I have no urgency to change them (Cannot put much larger speakers up anyway due to 'her indoors'!).
Anyway the crux of my post is that I currently have a NAFF NAFF NAFF old Eltax 12" Sub, which is so SLOW and only seemingly capable of producing one horribly reverberating-note. It's a bit better with it's port blocked with a pair of socks, but it still truly stinks!
My current room is a 4mtr by 5 mtr simple rectangle, and I get truly terrible room-mode issues wherever I stick the Eltax. I'll get loads of bass in one place, then no bass 3 ft away from that spot... this repeats all over the room!
So, with the following irregular shape of the new room (see floor-plan), I wonder if I would get sufficiently few room-mode issues to risk buying just one BK XXLS400 and placing it in one of the three 'blue' locations in the diagram, or if I should instead opt to buy two BK XLS200's and place them in any of the three 'blue' positions numbered.
the Onkyo 818 should auto-integrate one sub just fine, but I guess will do nothing for any room-modal issues (other than EQ any frequency peaks and troughs out at just the main-ish listening position). If I go for two subs, I think I will have to manually get them playing together nicely first, and only then run Auddyssey.
What are people's thoughts please? one XXLS400, or two XLS200's in this scenario?
I want sealed sub(s) so that they are tight and fast with music, as my eltax is as flabby and slow as a sub could possibly ever get, and I want best bang for my pound on new equipment, so it will definitely be BK. it's for a 50/50 Music/Movie split, and the room is not massive so I don't need monolith levels of bass on-tap.
(projection screen in red) New room is only approx 11ft deep (3.4mtrs) and about 21ft wide (6.4mtrs) right into the bay, so it's pretty small:
I currently Use B&W 685's Fronts, HTM62 Centre, and M-1's For Rears. The 685's sound truly fantastic to my ears... The most musical, airy, natural speakers that I have ever owned. The Centre and rears are fair enough for the money, and they match the timbre of the fronts well so I have no urgency to change them (Cannot put much larger speakers up anyway due to 'her indoors'!).
Anyway the crux of my post is that I currently have a NAFF NAFF NAFF old Eltax 12" Sub, which is so SLOW and only seemingly capable of producing one horribly reverberating-note. It's a bit better with it's port blocked with a pair of socks, but it still truly stinks!
My current room is a 4mtr by 5 mtr simple rectangle, and I get truly terrible room-mode issues wherever I stick the Eltax. I'll get loads of bass in one place, then no bass 3 ft away from that spot... this repeats all over the room!
So, with the following irregular shape of the new room (see floor-plan), I wonder if I would get sufficiently few room-mode issues to risk buying just one BK XXLS400 and placing it in one of the three 'blue' locations in the diagram, or if I should instead opt to buy two BK XLS200's and place them in any of the three 'blue' positions numbered.
the Onkyo 818 should auto-integrate one sub just fine, but I guess will do nothing for any room-modal issues (other than EQ any frequency peaks and troughs out at just the main-ish listening position). If I go for two subs, I think I will have to manually get them playing together nicely first, and only then run Auddyssey.
What are people's thoughts please? one XXLS400, or two XLS200's in this scenario?
I want sealed sub(s) so that they are tight and fast with music, as my eltax is as flabby and slow as a sub could possibly ever get, and I want best bang for my pound on new equipment, so it will definitely be BK. it's for a 50/50 Music/Movie split, and the room is not massive so I don't need monolith levels of bass on-tap.
(projection screen in red) New room is only approx 11ft deep (3.4mtrs) and about 21ft wide (6.4mtrs) right into the bay, so it's pretty small: