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So glad I put my sub back into my system. Hopefully won't need it with the new cabs but we'll see.
I've spent so long tuning mine, level especially. What works for Chet Baker is mental for Blood Orange. For the sake of my neighbours I just can't listen to hip hop, but that's ok, I don't anyway.
Depending on how you're doing the crossover, you could bump the bass up on the mains to allow you to set the xover point lower.
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With your tannoys? I guess once they're ported you won't need a sub. And it's only due to being sealed on low power you need one now.
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Yeah I do find that I want to adjust it depending on genre right now, but hopefully that will change once I'm fully settled in with it. I don't have any means of adjusting EQ on this system but I'm very happy for now.
I think these Klipsch are in the same boat as your Tannoys - small cabinet for the size of the driver and no port. The new revision has a bigger cabinet and rear horn loaded port and apparently solves the bass shyness issue. Those cost double what I paid for these though so the addition of a £250 used sub seems like a good way to fix it. Everything above the bass on these is magical.
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I bought a subwoofer in the end, a REL T5. Setting it up is quite a thing, all advice seems to be that you turn it down until you don't really notice it but when you suddenly have bass that was never there before I found myself turning it down to the point where if I turned it off I couldn't notice the difference. I've moved it all over the room, messed with the crossover and eventually went home quite frustrated.
Coming in this morning with the bass sound and feel no longer being completely new I've found a point where I'm happy with it. Corner placement is best, crossover turned up to just before the point where the mid bass starts to boost as it doubles up with the speakers' output, and level set just so. Making its position undetectable doesn't seem like an option given that its playing above 100hz into directional frequencies (the main speakers really don't dig deep at all), but its discreet and has really added a whole lot to my sound. The vibration across the floor and through the chair makes me no longer wish to crank the overall volume up to silly levels.