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Default Subwoofers! Etc.

On Friday, February 12, 2021 at 5:08:41 AM UTC-5, Trevor wrote:
On 11/02/2021 11:57 pm, Scott Dorsey wrote:
For music, I'd rather have restricted bass
than lumpy out of control bass. Your mileage may differ.

And a real sub for music should, and can provide extended bass that is
NOT lumpy or out of control. Whether it does or not simply dep
your choice of sub/s and X-over.

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For consumers, is knowing the lower frequency response number enough to set up a sub - for music and movies?

At work, when setting up stereo equipment demos that include a powered subwoofer, the first thing I do, instinctively, is to look on the a back of the mains speakers for freq. response. If I see "90Hz" at the low end, I set the X-over freq. on the sub(if adjustment is available) to just a hair below the 90 hashmark(or halfway between 75 and 100Hz, of those are the closest).
I then set the subwoofer output control to its midpoint, put on some music to listen to, and fine tune from there.

Is that a reasonable process, in absence of taking measurement?