Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Home Theater EP-600 Review thread.

craigsub: Can you speculate if there would a potential loss of performance if the EP600 is horizontal on the floor tucked into a nook into the wall almost emulating a floor level center channel recessed into the wall? Since the sub is front firing I am presuming it should not be an issue.

Saturn - You should be fine - the biggest potential problem will be room nodes - and a good EQ to tame peaks will cure that.

And guys - pending the outcome with the Hsu, and with the EP-600 slated to go into our family room, I am considering getting four EP-600's for the upstairs theater room. Think of it as a $6800 super sub.

He's mad! Mad, I tell you!

OH MY LORD! EARTHQUAKE!

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He's mad! Mad, I tell you!

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Actually, He is pretty happy... And he bets Ian talks him down to two.

Only because Ian doesn't want to go up to 4, as well.

Does he use two ? I did not know that... He would probably be right to advise that 2 is plenty. I just have this pic of 4 in my mind ...

I think he was running a single EP600 until Dennis ordered a second sub... then of course Ian had to upgrade as well.

EDIT -- my mistake; it was the other way round. Ian added a second EP600 at home and his results were a factor in Dennis doubling up the 600s in his system :

"Well after having recommendations Alan, and from Amie since Ian added a second, and they seem to have a similar listening area as to size and surfaces. I figured my thought of adding a second was not all that far off. LOL "

OK, so I'm new to this whole killer-sub thing and am totally intrigued by the idea. Is there a minimum size room that is suggested for utilizing two subs?

There are two reasons for going with multiple subs :

1. Getting more bass capacity than you can get out of a single sub.

2. Room resonances (modes) often give you uneven bass response, and even worse give you different bass response at different points in the room. Having multiple sound sources helps... generally you would have the two subs in different parts of the room for best results.

Reason #1 tends to be related to room size; larger rooms need larger subs and eventually you hit the limits of what a single sub can do.

Reason #2 is largely independent of room size; often small rooms can have worse response curves than large rooms.