nosleepdemon
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Hello!
I am looking at investing in a subwoofer to compliment my Genelec 8010 monitors. I'm listening in a small room of size 11x17 feet (187 square feet, 17 square metres). The room can be treated with acoustical foam, and possibly some bass traps in the corners. There appears to be some amount of insulation between it and the bedroom above, it's possibly rockwool. I am doing this mostly as an exercise to improve my mixes - games and film are secondary.
My main considerations in this purchase are:
1. Integrating well with my speakers, which have a low frequency roll-off at 67hz.
2. Not creating a noise complaint upstairs from my kid, who already has to put up with snow plows rumbling by at night!
3. Further to 2, being able to reproduce bass at a moderate volume - I'm playing the 8010s at a max volume of about 65db spl, listening just shy of 1 metre away.
I've narrowed my choice to the Genelec 7040 and the Svsound SB 1000. They are compareable in price for where I live, though notably the SB 1000 is about 10% cheaper.
The 7040 offers the advantage of being built specifically to match my speakers, however it has a smaller woofer and I can't find too much critical analysis on Genelec's Laminar Spiral Enclosure design, and whether that sufficiently compensates for it. I am a bit inexperienced when it comes to this!
The SB 1000 offers many more features, and a bigger woofer that could be future proof were I to move to a larger space - though then I'd likely be replacing or adding to the 8010s already. However I am ignorant of how this more powerful sub will play with my smaller, near-field speakers, and how difficult it would be to contain the sound passing through the ceiling.
So there you go, any help / advice / experience in a similar situation / education on bass would be most welcome.
I am looking at investing in a subwoofer to compliment my Genelec 8010 monitors. I'm listening in a small room of size 11x17 feet (187 square feet, 17 square metres). The room can be treated with acoustical foam, and possibly some bass traps in the corners. There appears to be some amount of insulation between it and the bedroom above, it's possibly rockwool. I am doing this mostly as an exercise to improve my mixes - games and film are secondary.
My main considerations in this purchase are:
1. Integrating well with my speakers, which have a low frequency roll-off at 67hz.
2. Not creating a noise complaint upstairs from my kid, who already has to put up with snow plows rumbling by at night!
3. Further to 2, being able to reproduce bass at a moderate volume - I'm playing the 8010s at a max volume of about 65db spl, listening just shy of 1 metre away.
I've narrowed my choice to the Genelec 7040 and the Svsound SB 1000. They are compareable in price for where I live, though notably the SB 1000 is about 10% cheaper.
The 7040 offers the advantage of being built specifically to match my speakers, however it has a smaller woofer and I can't find too much critical analysis on Genelec's Laminar Spiral Enclosure design, and whether that sufficiently compensates for it. I am a bit inexperienced when it comes to this!
The SB 1000 offers many more features, and a bigger woofer that could be future proof were I to move to a larger space - though then I'd likely be replacing or adding to the 8010s already. However I am ignorant of how this more powerful sub will play with my smaller, near-field speakers, and how difficult it would be to contain the sound passing through the ceiling.
So there you go, any help / advice / experience in a similar situation / education on bass would be most welcome.