Originally Posted by
audiomagnate
That seems like a real waste of a pair of 2245's. The room is 63 feet in one dimension and not at all regular; I really don't think I need bass traps. What would help is a swarm to even out nodes and anti-nodes, but a swarm of IB's is tough to implement and I don't want to add any boxes into the mix. The TV is more than a foot away from the woofer. Wavelengths in this region are extremely long (20 to 120 feet) so your deflector and vibrating TV comments don't make a whole lot of sense to me (the TV is about 12 inches away from the baffle). The only vibrations I'm getting are very far from the source and structural and audible (by me anyway) only when I sweep down into the subsonic range (10 Hz in particular), so I'm going to stop doing that. The bottom line (pun intended) is that this setup works wonderfully well and is incredibly cheap and easy to implement. This is by far the cleanest, most effortless, unobtrusive, uncolored (not a hint of "thump"), musical bass I've ever heard, and I've been building and buying massive subs and going to shows since 1977. Back in Colorado I had a swarm of 15s and 12s in custom made massive boxes that sounded very nice and probably had more "punch" (and floor impact) but this is much more satisfying, and now I'm thinking "punch" might not be such a good thing. I absolutely love the way this thing sounds. It's totally addictive and puts a huge smile on my face every time I listen, which is way more often that in the past. Visitors just shake their heads and say "wow." It really is that good. I'm becoming an IB (and 24 bit) evangelist. My next move is to simply cut a new baffle and add a second 2245 as well as a second bridged 620B for 1200 watts total. It's probably overkill as I don't listen all that loud but it couldn't hurt.