jimdriver2
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Recently upgraded all my HC gear. Doing that lead me to regularly read, on here and elsewhere, that the centre speaker and the sub are the most important elements.
As per the thread title I live in a first floor flat. It's part of a conversion of some essentially terraced houses. Means I've got one neighbour directly underneath me and one through the wall my HC stuff lives in.
We get on well with them and they're cool with the current setup. I obviously don't have it booming when watching action films but we're not needing to set the AVR into 'night mode' type settings or anything.
I don't really understand the details of exactly what a sub does with the low frequency sounds. I had a (pretty cheap) home cinema sub some years ago when I lived elsewhere and when that was turned on it really did make things like explosions and action scenes very loud.
What I'm wondering though is if I had a decent sub is there a way to have it handle the low frequency sounds that improved the overall audio quality without just making everything louder and critically not just sending loads of annoying bass audio through to my neighbours downstairs?
Is that something worth doing or will I be buying something and just not really taking advantage of what it can do?
As per the thread title I live in a first floor flat. It's part of a conversion of some essentially terraced houses. Means I've got one neighbour directly underneath me and one through the wall my HC stuff lives in.
We get on well with them and they're cool with the current setup. I obviously don't have it booming when watching action films but we're not needing to set the AVR into 'night mode' type settings or anything.
I don't really understand the details of exactly what a sub does with the low frequency sounds. I had a (pretty cheap) home cinema sub some years ago when I lived elsewhere and when that was turned on it really did make things like explosions and action scenes very loud.
What I'm wondering though is if I had a decent sub is there a way to have it handle the low frequency sounds that improved the overall audio quality without just making everything louder and critically not just sending loads of annoying bass audio through to my neighbours downstairs?
Is that something worth doing or will I be buying something and just not really taking advantage of what it can do?