PP Mguire
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Yea I've seen them, and tbh it's very dumb. Also their website is pretty trash. Anyways, stacked subs is a pro audio thing to push as much air in one direction as possible which would be toward a crowd of bodies that will absorb it. It's actually really dumb for surround sound. You want the subsonics to fill the whole space when there's a proper crossover involved between highs, mids, and LFE. In pro audio I always learned that sub placement or how they are faced doesn't matter because it isn't "directional" but in the past 2 years I learned that this ONLY applies to live shows and the gear used. I've had to stop using a lot about what I learned with pro audio in terms of traditional home audio. I've had 2 subs for a while now, but last year I made the move to changing my low-mid tuned sub (8") to have a placement to the rear/side of me. This made a world of difference in filling subsonic empty space. While redoing my room after the flooring was replaced, I actually snatched the 12" sub from my home theater and put it in here. I put it off to my right and slightly behind the side channel an equal distance from my chair as the 10" originally tuned for sub 100hz which is on the left next to the front channel. The idea behind this is let's use a racing sim for example. If you're sitting in a big block car in real life that rumble surrounds you, you feel it everywhere. If all subs are in front of you, there is no sonic presence behind you because of the acoustics of the room you're in. Switching things up, I turned the 12" sub for 100hz and down, and changed the 10" to low mid (100-190) and setting my bass redirection accordingly in my sound card software. This has almost completely filled the void when playing a game or watching a movie where the rear doesn't lack low end. I have since considered redesigning my sub placement for my game room addition for a front/rear placement or adding a 3rd sub with the crossover sitting at 190 to handle all frequencies picking up the rear.Yeah i've seen it on AV receivers but not in hi-fi amps. Have you seen those sub stacks for home theatre that REL sell ? you can buy 6 of their top end subwoofers as a kit and they stack 3 on top of each other, and you place three on the left and three on the right. I'd like to hear that. Sounds like overkill to me but probably very fun. I'm pretty sure i'd find a single 1000 watt 15 inch sub powerful enough, let alone six.
https://rel.net/uk/shop/powered-subwoofers/reference-series/no-32/
tl;dr, I definitely would not get stacked subs even for hi-fi.