IBL and subwoofer
Posted by: Arye_Gur on 20 December 2002
As many people in Israel heard that my system is “bass lack”, and I have poor speakers with a poor 4.5” woofer, few friends of the Israeli stereo forum decided to do something.
They came to my house yesterday evening with a Rell Stadium sub woofer. One of this people is a Naim freak like myself (we know each other for more than 10 years), the second was at my home several times and know my system, the third has a Meridian cdp and the integrated Krell amp, and these two who brought the sub listened to Naim for the first time.
The first surprise to the group was the fact that the IBLs are supplying all the bass needed. What was described by one of them “a poor looking speaker that surprises with its performances”. The speaker gives good bass when the bass id available in the recorded material and the sub does nothing to help.
My opinion is that there are times when the sub helps, also, as I think, not like Mike Hanson (I think he was the one) said, the Sub doesn’t interrupt with the main speakers and the PRaT is the same with or without it.
There are times when the Sub helps – most of the time it doesn’t. But also when it does help, you have to monitor it all the time, pay attention to the volume and decide when to involve it and when to “off” it – and this is a kind of attention I don’t want, I like my system playing music for me while I’m doing nothing.
The bottom line, I don’t think a sub is a solution, and for a deeper bass I have to go to something else
(A Fraim ???).
Arye
They came to my house yesterday evening with a Rell Stadium sub woofer. One of this people is a Naim freak like myself (we know each other for more than 10 years), the second was at my home several times and know my system, the third has a Meridian cdp and the integrated Krell amp, and these two who brought the sub listened to Naim for the first time.
The first surprise to the group was the fact that the IBLs are supplying all the bass needed. What was described by one of them “a poor looking speaker that surprises with its performances”. The speaker gives good bass when the bass id available in the recorded material and the sub does nothing to help.
My opinion is that there are times when the sub helps, also, as I think, not like Mike Hanson (I think he was the one) said, the Sub doesn’t interrupt with the main speakers and the PRaT is the same with or without it.
There are times when the Sub helps – most of the time it doesn’t. But also when it does help, you have to monitor it all the time, pay attention to the volume and decide when to involve it and when to “off” it – and this is a kind of attention I don’t want, I like my system playing music for me while I’m doing nothing.
The bottom line, I don’t think a sub is a solution, and for a deeper bass I have to go to something else
(A Fraim ???).
Arye