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Seriously looking into buying a Klipsch, but I just don't get what some people may have against Klipsch. Could somebody please enlighten me what's the thing that can make people develope either a gripe or a devotion for this brand?

I think that's the first time I've ever read that statement on this forum! Cheers, well the reason I found out about Klipsch was from asking around about fat sounding subs. The speakers I use are fat sounding and much in the PA vein and would like something that would go well with these. The subs from the manufacturer of my fullrange speakers, Dynavoice, are -9dB at 25Hz at best. Cool for the kind of music I listen to probably but for movies I need to go well into the low 20s or even lower than that. Hadn't this been the issue, I would probably have bought a BK long ago.

Thanx for your chiming in on the matter. Then I seem to have made a misstake with my maths[:$]. I forgot we're dealing with area here. Would 211 square feet sound more realistic? Rougly 12 feet wide and perhaps 18 feet long. May have been a bit obscure about the speakers present too. The Fronts are four-ways with 6.5" mids and twin 8" woofers, the Sats are three-ways with 6.5" mids/ woofers. The receiver is good for 100-ish Ws max per channel with a 360W power supply. But like said: I'm not really pushing the speakers at all.

Thanx but that one seems like a bit of overkill to me.

Perhaps it's a bit newbee but I'm trying to figure out what sub to go into my home cinema theatre. I can get a KSW 10, a 450 and a Sub 12 for reasonable money - or I can go with a BK XLS200 (10", closed and more audiophile) for roughly as much. The thing is my theatre room is 19m3 which should be roughly 63 square feet in which I'm running a 6.0, soon to be 7.0 with two floorstanding (1"+1")+6.5"+(8"+8")s and the others (1"+1")+6.5" mid segment speakers driven by a Sony DA2400ES. All speakers are plugged and sound really inticing and musical to my ears. I don't play very loud but I like cinema-like sound levels. Preferably the sub should go as low as possible, but I'm a bit confused about power. E.g. the BK uses 275W A/B stage which is said to rival 1000W D class stages. Ws should be measured using sinewave but obviously this doesn't apply here... (?). But I really like the idea about the Sub 12 (even though I usually prefer closed designs) however those 300 continous Ws seem a bit much - though perhaps they're not with the above in mind (if that holds true, that is). Using satellites in most positions the sub would have to deal with frequencies these cannot + the LFE. What do you think? Should someone suggest I'd benefit from the RW12D I could indeed do the stretch for one, but I'm usually a 'one setting serves all purposes', kind of guy. Thanx!

Thanx, yeah, I suppose he must have meant 20/ 100 on the gain knob or something. Yes twice the voltage should be 6 dB, but the same voltage driving two units I believe is only 3.

Cheers, so by that you're technically saying the sub infact has separate pre-amps but a common poweramp, then.

Oh, thank you. I'm sure you're right about it being a myth. I think I read this about a JBL sub at some time way back. Might have applied to that one sub and not generally, but so many abiding to the Y-splitter rule I got the idea that at least subs of US design had separate amps or at least pre amps. I also read a review for a Klipsch sub (don't remember the model now) in which the reviewer said he used both inputs because "it increases the gain by 20". Can't speak for him obviously and not sure why there would be a difference if what you say is true.

Is this true and if so: why is it so? Does that have to do with multiple amp circuits and multiple voice coils or what? Or is this merely a myth? Cheers, Jonas