Hsu, SVS, and Outlaw have generous return policies. Since you will never know in advance what sounds best in your room, can you save enough by buying online to afford the return shipping costs and try them at home? (I bought a Hsu VTF-3, but that was before the LFM-1 was introduced.) Good luck!

soundhound:

Can the same be said about woofers in two way speakers?
For example, I had a pair of 3 way speakers with one 8” woofer per speaker. I upgraded to a pair of 2 way speakers with two 5 1/4” woofers per speaker (MTM config). It seems like my new speakers do better down to 40 Hz than my previous one which I didn’t get to do any tests before getting rid of them. Just wondering…


[This message has been edited by Spiker (edited June 18, 2004).]

two subs are not always better than one. nor would 2 smaller drivers always be better than one larger one... a smaller driver typically does not have the frequency response of a larger driver (given same quality with both), if you had 1 or 1000 small drivers it still wouldnt go as low as one bigger one. now if you switched from 1 big crappy driver to 2 small but better drivers then there will be a difference, but it will not be a difference of low end extension. a lot of people like bass that is not really low, in fact what they consider bass is mostly midrange, so you must be getting more of that sound from your 2 5.25s and that is what you like...

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Two of the exact same sub will perform better than one of those same subs by itself.

Back to spiker's question, there's a lot more going on than simple number and size of drivers in a speaker. The single 8" driver in a three-way speaker could potentially achieve better bass response than a pair of 5.25" drivers in a two-way speaker, but factors such as the quality of the individual drivers, the enclosure designs, and the crossover designs (just to name the ones that occur to me) could just as easily yield better extension for the two-way speaker. The number of drivers in the two-way speaker becomes just one of many contributing factors.

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i thought crappy vs better summed that up...

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