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Looking for a Sub with Tight and Clean Bass
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<blockquote data-quote="zako" data-source="post: 7435137" data-attributes="member: 629735"><p>Tight and clean sound usually means upper sub bass/lower midbass range. I assume you want to play it clean, but not at the expense of lows. There are two philosophies regarding tight, clean bass. One is that subwoofers have no business playing higher bass octaves. Instead your front stage woofers should be able to play mid bass, leaving sub bass to the subwoofer duty. This setup can sound good, but to have it you need to have good components up front with a lot of power running to them and doors sealed and treated for better bass response. This is what I use. I have Alpine SPR-17S up front with 150watts RMS running to each side (probably excessive). The second philosophy to getting tight and clean bass is to look at extremely low distortion, low impedance subwoofers to fill the upper bass notes. Subwoofers that had been proved to work well for this are Dayton Reference series (all of them) and Peerless XXLS. One guy on DIYMA reported running XXLS with no crossover whatever with good results. This is what's probably a good indication of a tight and clean subwoofer. Another subwoofer that may work well for this duty is Infinity Kappa series because of its low inductance (low inductance often means, better cleaner upper end). I am actually waiting for my 12" Kappa to arrive to test this theory out..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="zako, post: 7435137, member: 629735"] Tight and clean sound usually means upper sub bass/lower midbass range. I assume you want to play it clean, but not at the expense of lows. There are two philosophies regarding tight, clean bass. One is that subwoofers have no business playing higher bass octaves. Instead your front stage woofers should be able to play mid bass, leaving sub bass to the subwoofer duty. This setup can sound good, but to have it you need to have good components up front with a lot of power running to them and doors sealed and treated for better bass response. This is what I use. I have Alpine SPR-17S up front with 150watts RMS running to each side (probably excessive). The second philosophy to getting tight and clean bass is to look at extremely low distortion, low impedance subwoofers to fill the upper bass notes. Subwoofers that had been proved to work well for this are Dayton Reference series (all of them) and Peerless XXLS. One guy on DIYMA reported running XXLS with no crossover whatever with good results. This is what's probably a good indication of a tight and clean subwoofer. Another subwoofer that may work well for this duty is Infinity Kappa series because of its low inductance (low inductance often means, better cleaner upper end). I am actually waiting for my 12" Kappa to arrive to test this theory out.. [/QUOTE]
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