Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Technical Questions How much Sub?

If it were me I would go with the EP 350 or equivelent sub. another scene from LOTR is at the bridge with the demon.

I think your room is big enough that you would want no smaller than the new ep350. You can't go to big because you should calibrate it to the levels required in your room anyways but too small could leave you wanting more.

I understand the pricing issue. Many people have been reporting that they are very happy with alternatives from SVS and HSU. That being said, once you hear the Axiom subs, you will have a hard time leaving without one. I love my 500 but the new 350 sounds like it will be a real competitor in the lower price range.

Oops, meant v3. OK, I'm gonna listen to the 175 and 350 to get a sense of the difference.

Hmm... maybe I could just watch a complete movie while I'm there. Must remember popcorn.

I was reading this thread last night and thought, "Hey I should watch 'Fellowship' again and pay more attention to the LFE now that I have my 350v3". With the sub set at 10 o'clock and 0dB on the Rx there were quite a few scenes that sent vibrations up the back of my chair. I was only able to watch the first disc as it was getting towards 10:00 and didn't want the rumbling to knock the neighbors out of bed!

Although it was almost twice as much as my Paradigm PDR10 I'd say it is at least twice as good. In my opinion, you can get by on smaller subs for music (or none at all with tower speakers) but if you have any intention of going HT you might as well go with the bigger guns now (unless you are also intending on setups in multiple rooms and can demote the sub to the secondary system as I did).

A thing to note for the average Canuck is that we don't have as ready access to the lower prices and shipping on new SVS and Hsu. The lowest SVS (PB10) is $499+shipping (from $20-60) from Sonicboom. The lowest Hsu (STF-1) is $400+? from hi-fidelity.com, the Canadian distributor. The 350 is $750 shipped ($675 from the FO) and is statistically closer (I haven't heard them) to the VTF-3 ($999+?) or PB12 ($699+ $25-68).

I wouldn't put the 350V3 up there with the HSU's just yet, ctown's STF3 pounds much harder than the 350V3, but the 350v3 has smoother more musical note to it,IMO

I was thinking one of the HSU's was included in Alan's AB testing.

I'll take me some musical smoothness.

Don't discount the Hsu's ability to blend in very well with the Axioms. For around $200 less, that would be the VTF 2 MK2, one should at least consider the Hsu subs.

Alan was somewhat vague as he said 3 capital letters, SVS is usually capitalized while Hsu shouldn't be but quite often is.

When he mentioned the "clumsy" 3 letter brand, I guess the first thing that came to mind is those HSU's with twin eyeball ports sticking out the top.