Subwoofer dilemma. One or two?

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Dredging this thread up as I’m starting to mull this over in earnest now.

So, this is the space with the Magnepans. Audio system is in a closet behind the orange couch, and speaker wire and RCA’s for the subs run under the rug. I don’t have little kids or a lot of traffic in the room, so not worried about the cables getting stepped on or damaged under the rug. It works fine. Not true audiophile, but here we are.

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Currently I have two little Cambridge Minx X201 subs behind the Maggies. One white, one black because that’s what I happen to have already. :slight_smile:

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They fit between the legs of the speaker riser, and when I’m having a listening session, I pull the speakers out from the wall. Subs stay where they are.

So, I’m thinking of getting some more substantial subwoofers, and they would remain in this location. They would be bigger than these little Cambridge subs, and wider than the Magnepan feet, so I have two options.

  1. Build a little riser/base/pedestal for the sub so it straddles the feet. When I pull the speaker out, the sub would stay put.

  2. Build some kind of riser that would ATTACH to the Magnepan feet. So the sub would be connected to the Maggies, integrated with the feet, and would come out from the wall when I pull the speaker out. Think of a sled. (I built those Maggie feet out of walnut, so I can easily fabricate something, also out of walnut.)

I could sketch something up but hopefully you get the picture.

So, two questions:

  1. Which of those two options seem the most viable/desirable? Visually, to me, it’s a horse apiece. Sonically, I don’t know what’s better. Either option will raise the sub off the ground, but will coupling the sub with the maggie legs create some unwanted harmonic something or another? Is pulling the sub away from the wall favorable in the same way as speakers away from the wall?

  2. Need a sub recommendation. Looking at REL T7i, SVS SB2000, others. Nothing bigger than 14-15" square. If something came in a walnut finish, that would be awesome. For connections, I could go either RCA (as there’s already cabling in place) or I could go from the magnepans’ speaker terminals to a high-level input on the sub via a jumper. (At least I think I can do this. I never really knew this was an option until seeing a thread here a while back that referenced it.) So, high-level inputs are fine, but not critical.

Amplification is a Parasound HINT6 integrated, for what it’s worth.

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