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once the EP400's start reaching the factory outlet, they will cost a mere $970 CAD, you could buy 2 of them for roughly the price of a new EP600...

Good one Hutz. Well I'm heading up to Dwight for some year end fishing this weekend so I'll see what the prospects are for getting my hands on one... or two.

I am mostly interested in which would be better, two EP400s or one EP600? I am VERY curious as the two EP400s obviously have an advantage for 2 placement areas, instead of just one.

Mojo, its hard to say but it may be a FR related room issue. Possibly ringing in the room. As you can see from the above pics my room is acoustically treated with four floor to ceiling bass traps and acoustical panel covering the better part of three wall. Some people say it sounds dampened like a studio but the overall effect is tighter, smoother response across all frequencies and better imaging.

Jake, I agree with everything you said. I don't want snap/slam at the expense of smooth, transparent musicality. Perhaps it's my room because, if you will recall from my room response graphs, I have comb-filtering taking place every 23 Hz or so from 90Hz all the way up to 300Hz.

I'm convinced the only way to smoothen this response is by heavily treating or listening in 7-channel stereo. I don't like either option frankly because treating is hit-and-miss unless I am willing to go to considerable expense for an acoustic analysis and extensive acoustic engineering and 7-channel stereo just doesn't sound "right".

This room response only affects my bass; I personally don't have any complaints about anything else. Maybe higher harmonics out of a sub will fix this problem. But if they're going to spoil smoothness and transparency, then I don't want them.

I'd be curious in finding out about the difference between the 400 and 500/600 too.

Well, there's a quick note about the EP400 (4 of them, in fact) over at Audioholics. They're promising a full review soon.

Yes interesting comment. He does corroborate that with multiple subs output, for all intents and purposes, is not an issue.

"...They switched back and forth between the coffin-sized EP600s and the new compact EP400s to showcase the benefit of multiple subwoofers and how 4 small subs can be equally effective as 4 large subs if they have enough output capability to fill the listening space. "

http://www.audioholics.com/news/trade-show-coverage/audioholics-show-report