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If I lived alone, or had the space for a dedicated listening room then my options would have increased.
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It is likely cheaper to get the speakers, than the “live alone” option.
Thank you for your subjective impressions. Even though I have not yet auditioned Sointuva, this line is a little bit regrettable for me since I just consider implementation of Sointuva
as woofers in my multichannel multi-amplifier setup; the idea was shared in
my above post #167.
I may have several alternative candidate SPs as woofers, as shared
here in my remote thread. I would highly appreciate any of your possible suggestions regarding such rather compact SPs having "vivid transient sound" in 50 Hz - 500 Hz.
This thread is for Sointuva; let's discuss further, therefore, on this specific idea and topic there, in
my multichannel multi-amplifier thread.
Let me rephrase it…
I was like “WTF - how are these little things giving so much bass…”
It would probably be thin in a home theatre set up, but they were fast, tight, and more than enough.
(Probably around 40-Hz or a bit under.)
If one listened to organ music, or a lot of rap, then
maybe one would need a sub.
I would suggest you await the objective analysis and I believe that a set is “headed to a Klippel machine near you”. Then you will have a more informed basis for action. If not, then my suggestion is hold off on a sub unless maybe it is a very large room.
The things were doing very well on 125w/channel, and I personally do not thing I would need more, and I have floor standing speaker and a sub with my old system.
Hello OP
@Mutsu and friends,
Even though we are now somewhat excited about the new high-range driver of Sointuva speaker, during the past a few months, I have been rather interested in Sointuva's reported/reviewed "clear, tight, rigid, solid, speedy, fast-transient" bass-low sound given by the 6.5" (16.5 cm) low-range drivers, Purifi PTT6.5X04-NFA-01, one in the front and two in the back panel.
I am just considering, therefore, possibility of adding pair of Sointuva "as such an excellent woofer" in
my multichannel multi-driver (multi-way) multi-amplifier stereo system (please find the latest setup
here/post#416 and
here/post#636); Sointuva (as woofer) will be driven by a dedicated amplifier in the clearly crossed-over 50 Hz- 500 Hz Fq range, simultaneously and/or alternatively with Yamaha NS-1000's 30 cm (11.8") corn woofer (JA-3058).….
^That^ is a lot of speakers.
If you are not using them as a 2 way, then maybe you could just get them without the tweeter and without the passive crossover?
I would still suggest that you await the Klippel test.
- Do you know how low in frequency you need to go?
- … and also how high in frequency?
- How are you doing crossovers in your multi amp system? MiniDSP?
There is really only a single Purifi woofer in the box, on the back are a couple of Purifi “Passive Radiators” (PRs).
I like PRs, but if you excite them below the tuning freqs then they unload just like a port does.
There are a hundred ways to skin a cat.
- If it was rock-n-rap, then the usual solution is 12 or 15” subs
- But then one often has blending and harmonics and resonances are often a problem.
- A more musical system might be using 2 or 3 woofers like a ScanSpeak 18wu, which would probably be “the next best woofer/mid-bass”, and would do light sub duty…
- With “light sub duty” being defined as probably ~30 Hz or above, but well into the hundreds of Hz.
- And for more bass than the Sointuva, then maybe a pair of the Purifi woofers and 3-4 of the PRs.
- You would get 3dB more bass, and maybe they could be tuned lower with the PRs.
I was seriously thinking a few months back of making some surround speakers using the Purifi gear, the Purifi passive XO and the DIY instructions. I onlyd hear about the Sointuva a little over a week ago.
After seeing them I can see I would have made a bunch of rookie mistakes like the rounding of the edges of the cabinet, and probably the wrong tweeter. And the cost of a full Sonituva is not too much more than a box of part from Madisound, and there is no engineering traps to fall into.
They are basically what I was thinking of doing, just without any of the mistakes that I would have made… which I did not think even existed two weeks ago.
In and case I decided a few months back that the risk of hosing up the cabinets was too high and got some second hand surrounds., and also a secondhand center channel For a 5.3 HT and 2.1 combined system.
If I missed anything, then ask away while the memory is fresh, and before the objective data arrives.
