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38 minutes ago, jjptkd said:

Quartets are a decent sized speaker and solid down to 45-50hz so stereo subs really aren't needed a good LFE or multiple LFE's should be sufficient up to a certain sized room. In a perfect world you'd want stereo subs with the Quartets and a separate LFE or four. 

I’ll see what our local store has and check the prices. Thank you

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30 minutes ago, JoeHawkins said:

I’ll see what our local store has and check the prices. Thank you

 

Get a second sub that's the same as your current one.  If you can't find one, sell the one you have and buy two identical subs.  It's very difficult to get two different subs to play well together.

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9 hours ago, wuzzzer said:

 

Get a second sub that's the same as your current one.  If you can't find one, sell the one you have and buy two identical subs.  It's very difficult to get two different subs to play well together.

That’s pretty much what my original plan was 

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On 10/2/2021 at 11:38 PM, wuzzzer said:

 

Get a second sub that's the same as your current one.  If you can't find one, sell the one you have and buy two identical subs.  It's very difficult to get two different subs to play well together.

I got the matching one wired in via LFE and it sounds absolutely fantastic! I want to try hooking them up in stere before I run all my cables permanently. But, so far, this is absolutely amazing.

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All wires are run and both subs are now running in stereo. Had to crank the gain up quite a bit but it sure sounds great. I used Armin Van Buren - This is a test  to straighten it out and I’m super happy with the outcome.

 

Thanks to this community for helping me out with advice. It’s much appreciated.

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In my own experience, with a pair of JubScala IIs (highly modded bi-amped La Scala IIs), and a single 400-watt 10” direct-firing sub, all was well.  It produced what seemed to be a fine amount and quality of bass-range music.  Then, I decided to replace that sub with a more modern 850-watt 10” direct-firing sub from the same company, Paradigm, because I felt that I’d been missing the lowest octave of music, since the new sub went about 5 Hz deeper, 18 Hz versus 23 Hz.

 

While the new sub did go much deeper, with more authority/power, now I had an extreme (+20 dB) bass peak centred about a metre/yard in front of the sofa.  At first, I wondered if my favourite Net Radio station had cranked up the bass for some reason, since I often passed through that space during the day and couldn’t help noticing the odd bass-heavy sound in the room.  Then I realized that it was happening in just that area and figured it out, so I bought and installed a second matching sub, another Paradigm Seismic 110.  Now, the bass sound level was consistent throughout the room, plus the added power gave the sound a fuller, more rounded, more realistic feel.  

 

This is what I was after!  Now, the system had a sound that seemed complete in a way that I hadn’t heard before.  It’s like it was the missing link that allowed the system to finally reach its potential, as a satisfying sound that had been just out of reach all the while. Your mileage may vary, of course, since your room and your system is different from mine, but maybe this bit of knowledge and experience could be helpful to you in your quest for great sound.

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On 11/7/2021 at 6:20 PM, Islander said:

In my own experience, with a pair of JubScala IIs (highly modded bi-amped La Scala IIs), and a single 400-watt 10” direct-firing sub, all was well.  It produced what seemed to be a fine amount and quality of bass-range music.  Then, I decided to replace that sub with a more modern 850-watt 10” direct-firing sub from the same company, Paradigm, because I felt that I’d been missing the lowest octave of music, since the new sub went about 5 Hz deeper, 18 Hz versus 23 Hz.

 

While the new sub did go much deeper, with more authority/power, now I had an extreme (+20 dB) bass peak centred about a metre/yard in front of the sofa.  At first, I wondered if my favourite Net Radio station had cranked up the bass for some reason, since I often passed through that space during the day and couldn’t help noticing the odd bass-heavy sound in the room.  Then I realized that it was happening in just that area and figured it out, so I bought and installed a second matching sub, another Paradigm Seismic 110.  Now, the bass sound level was consistent throughout the room, plus the added power gave the sound a fuller, more rounded, more realistic feel.  

 

This is what I was after!  Now, the system had a sound that seemed complete in a way that I hadn’t heard before.  It’s like it was the missing link that allowed the system to finally reach its potential, as a satisfying sound that had been just out of reach all the while. Your mileage may vary, of course, since your room and your system is different from mine, but maybe this bit of knowledge and experience could be helpful to you in your quest for great sound.

Sorry that it took me so long to get back to this. Somehow my browser would not let me on the site.

 

Anyways, thank you for your input. I’ve been very happy with my system the way it is now. Added a tube headphone amp and a pair of Beyerdynamics T1.2. 
sadly, now I got the itch for a tube amp lol

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