The chest thing is said to be around 60 -90hz and the sub is busy playing ALL low frequncies and smoothly.
Thank you for making this point. This is precisely why I leave my M80's set to large even when I have a subwoofer. Expecially a subwoofer designed to dig really deep like the EP800 is. We've already discussed the fact that subwoofer designs are all trade-offs. You trade this for that. With subs like the EP800 tuned to hit 12 hz in a room, you give up some of the ability to do 60 - 90 hz really well. This is the reason some cheaper subs costing only a few hundred dollars seem really impressive as far as slam goes. They might not play much lower than 25 hz, but they can hit 60 hz like a M1 Abrams tank slamming throught your living room wall at 80 miles per hour!
I still say it's personal preference. But for me, the M80's take care of the slam much better than the EP800 did.
