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In Reply to: The blessing of small subwoofers posted by Brian H P on May 6, 2024 at 15:17:15:
I belonged to UCSC's Crown College. At the end of the school year, if you were to return the next year, and live at Crown, Student Housing held sign-ups. You'd go to the lounge, meet others who were looking for roommates. The problem was, Student Housing did not allow males and females to room with each other.
For my junior and senior years, I did find three male housemates. Nothing wrong with them, but I would have been even better off, with my female friends. The latter were much better at organizing duties/chores, shopping, sharing, cooking, cleaning, maintaining supplies, fairly splitting bills, etc.
Both years, my housemates wisely selected top-floor apartment units, which had high ceilings. We had no control over who went into the buildings' five other units. Both years, I had no male neighbors.
You could argue that I did more activities, with my coed neighbors, than I did with my own housemates.
Those last two years, my study buddies were all girls. But here's the thing. Santa Cruz had recovered from the 1989 Loma Prieta quake, was a lovely place, and as such was not conducive to studying and doing homework. Whether we stayed indoors, or went exploring, music often played. And all that music fueled my dreams and thoughts about high-end audio.
At the end of the Spring 1991 quarter, while still living in the dorms, I went with my nextdoor neighbor, Andrea, to (I'm not kidding) Recycled Stereo Plus, which was right off of Santa Cruz's Metro Center. There, I bought the Pinnacle PN-5+ minimonitors, for $200.
In 1992-93, that PN-5+ was the main speaker, in my college apartment. The only guy friends who'd come over were from student activity groups, as we played on-campus intramural sports. They and my housemates begged me to go back to Recycled Stereo Plus, and buy Pinnacle's PN SUB+, which I think was also $200.
But I had an eye towards post-graduation life. So, during Finals Week 1992, my Christmas present to myself was a Roomtune JustaRack. When it arrived in early 1993, my downstairs neighbor (a girl), helped me go back and forth, between the mailroom and up the stairs to my apartment. My housemates were out, so my neighbor - bless her soul - helped me put that damn rack together. She and I spun and spun and spun the nuts, up and down the JustaRack's oiled threaded rods. She couldn't believe how greasy her hands got (sounds kinky but isn't). But she felt so accomplished, she went down to her unit, fetched food, came back up, listened to music, and helped prepare dinner for us and my housemates.
That JustaRack held the TV, Sony CD player, and Adcoms. The Pinnacles could then go on end tables, and not muck up the electronics. Everyone was astounded, at how a rack enabled the system to sound better.
All four years, when my friends from outside of UCSC visited me, none was a male. During the Presidents Day weekend 1993, ACS, then a sophomore at Cal, visited me. She recognized the Sony CD player, which previously had been at my home in San Francisco. In what was possibly its video debut, the Cranberries' haunting "Linger" played on MTV. Yes, when an audio product plays "Linger," if it's any good, it'll bring you back to February 1993, when ACS came over.
Since I entered high-end audio as a college kid, in the early-1990s, it makes sense that, decades later, I get to live with and evaluate some mighty expensive audio products. Nevertheless, you don't forget your origins. You don't forget that $200 was a lot of money, and you thought and thought and thought, about which audio move (a) made the most immediate impact, or (b) set the stage for future payoffs, making better long-term sense. Accordingly, I do not consider the $7400 Totem Forest Signature to be "affordable."
If an audiophile currently has, for example, Totem's Sky mini-monitor, your advice is sound. Adding a well-matched sub can represent a worthy upgrade option/path. Especially if said audiophile moves the stereo into a larger room, adding the subwoofer means he doesn't have to get rid of the mini-monitors.
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