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From: hgcjr@utastro.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Subwoofers
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Date: Mon, 1-Aug-83 23:35:08 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  1 23:35:08 1983
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      Does anyone on the net have experience, negative or positive, with 
subwoofers?
      My current speakers are Infinity IRS III's, VERY pleasing indeed above 
50-60 Hz.  They are in a rather bright large living room (16x22).  Because 
of domestic considerations (ahem!) there is no possibility of redoing the room.
Ditto speaker placement -- they are at one end about 12-15 inches in front of
curtained windows, roughly three feet from the side walls:  not at all ideal,
but there it is.
      The speakers are capable of reproducing 40 Hz tones, but satisfactory 
bass in music (classical orchestral) is generally lacking.  I'm considering a 
subwoofer as a possible solution, but have had no experience with them.  I am 
not even sure that a much cheaper and just as satisfactory(?) solution may not 
be available (judicious use of Sonex here or there?  much heavier curtains?)
      Any ideas, recommendations, opinions, warnings, etc would be welcome.  
Oh, yes -- a general price limit of $600 - 700 applies.  (Again, "domestic 
considerations".)    
                           With thanks,

                           Harold Corwin
                           Astronomy Department
                           Univ. of Texas, Austin
                           (utastro!hgcjr)