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I'm cool with a pair of HP's or F-2's but when you cross the 115dB THX threshold, isn't one just damaging their hearing? ???

You have to forgive my not understanding this need to obsess about LF dB's. My excuse, I was dropped a couple of times on my head as a child and never recovered.

Thanks for the response. To help better understand my mindset, my mindset is, never use gear at more than 80% capacity whether jackhammer or subwoofer which would mean that if a subwoofer system has to be maxed to reach 115dB, I'm considered woefully underpowered. I'm all for personal happiness. If someone wants to have 140dB worth a headroom, I'm all for their happiness. I'm just trying to understand the mindset above that of THX reference as agreeing with you, I too choose to listen at between -10dB and on particularly good sound tracks, choose to inch the volume control up to 0dB and sometimes +5dB.

FWIW, I've measure the room when at 0dB volume setting. I've found during dialogue and normal action sequences, it works out to be a SPL of ~95dB.

Please, in my question, do not take defense or offense as I'm trying to understand the mindset. In a show of solidarity, I've moved my thinking from a pair of eighteen year old 12" subs to, when I've gathered the money, a pair of SubMersive HP's. It's very questionable if the furniture (no room) would accept a sexier pair of F2's. This SubMersive upgrade, at 20Hz should be able to pressurize the room to ~117dB. In real terms, we all know that things start coming off the shelves at 107dB and we're talking twice that in perceived loudness. While reading and pushing on this mental string, a pair of Funk Audio 18.3's or a pair of Klipsch THX subs are starting to look good. On my part, this quest to understand has to end somewhere as I can't afford to buy and try all the choices before us. I'm a do my due diligence and buy once kind-a-guy. I'm a consumer of goods, I'm not a hobbyist. If anything, my hobby is to sit and do nothing but eat popcorn while enjoying an at home movie experience with the wife.

The insightful purpose of my question, if I need to rethink my subwoofer choices, I'd rather do so before plunking down for a pair of HP's as opposed to slapping my forehead in an after thought of: "Gee I could have had a ....."

As another show of understanding support, I've moved my budget from $1,500.00 > $3,000.00 > $6,000.00. My wife is threatening to go all Lizzy Borden on me. (Somebody hep me.) Hence the need to understand the mindset; to better see if I need to amend my choices or if I'm simply chasing the stardust of esoteric ideology.

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(Somewhere between the Earth and the Stars is every person's middle ground.)

The pragmatic opposite of the above is:

(Just because my ceiling is another person's floor, does not mean I have to move.)

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Edited by BeeMan458 - 11/15/12 at 5:25am

I would say it's a safe bet to say an AVR receiver like a Denon, 4311Ci with Audyssey, MultEQ XT32, which has discrete dual sub outs.

Currently, we're running a Marantz, SR5007 which uses Audyssey, MultEQ XT and the two sub outs are internally split with a "Y." I use a digital Radio Shack sound meter to balance the two subs and then run Audyssey followed with additional sound meter adjustments after Audyssey has been run.

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Edited by BeeMan458 - 11/15/12 at 9:04am