Underwhelmed by Subwoofer
I had never tried a subwoofer before in my AV set-up which is a Marantz NR1403 AV Amp powering a B&W HTM2 centre speaker and the pre-outs going to my monoblock amps to drive a pair of B&W 804N speakers. Without the a subwoofer, this all sounded pretty good but I felt it was missing some low end umph. I bought a B&W PV-1 subwoofer on e-bay for £400 plugged-it in, connected it to the Marantz, ran the set-up using the Audessy and sat back to play a few movies to hear if there would be a difference. I have to say I was underwhelmed by the result, there is barely any difference. I then manually set the crossover frequency to 40Hz, but no change.
The 804Ns go down to about 45Hz and the PV-1 has plenty of power (500W) and goes down to 21Hz, so I was expecting an improvement. Any thoughts why this might not be?
Cheers
Alastair
RPI4/PI2AES running PiCorePlayer/LMS-> AQ Carbon AES -> Topping D90 DAC-> Khozomo Passive Pre-Amp -> 4x Temple Audio Monoblocks powered by 2xLiFePO batteries->Van Damme Black Bi-Wired to B&W 804 Nautilus and Sommer Carbokab 225 Interconnects