I am thinking of buying a sub for my home studio. The music I am working on is very influenced by "Dutch & latin Dutch" house music(Laidback Luke/Vato GOnzalez/Artistic Raw/Alvaro). Room is roughly 14 ft wide by 9 ft deep. I have Adams A7X monitors and would like to get a better feeling for the bottom of my tracks. What size sub and what models are you guys using or have worked with that you liked? I don't mind investing in bass traps and sound proofing but don't want to over do it as i doubt I'll stay here for more than a year or 2...

 

I LIKE KRK 10S. AS WITH ANY TYPE OF MONITOR IT'S ABOUT YOUR EARS

 

Adam has a 7' and 12' available. Only I've never heard them. :/
But yes, I do like their stuff.

 

i uaes KRK rokit 8 monitors and the way my room is and were my recording both is i know my room well so to here the really low bass like 808 have to open my recording booth sliding
glass door for some reason then i can here the low's but i get plenty of bass from the KRK 8''

 

yeah the back of my room has a \___/ shape and i can here my low 808s and subs the best in the far corners. I'd like a sub to hear the lower bass frequencies though cause i love beats that rumble in the club.

 

I've worked with the 10' and liked it. I was wondering if there are others i should listen to. A friend of mine recommended the 7' for the room i have. I'm reading up on the Genelecs also. Gonna hit the candy store 2moro and listen to a couple.

 

I went to 3 pro-audio shops last week & I listened to a bunch of dif subs.

The tightest sounding was the Klein & Hummel 0810 which was 2400$(for the floor model) instead of 2600$ for a new one. I love the sound of it.

I listened to the Genelec 7060B which was nice. They are asking 2500$ but are willing to sell the floor model for 1900$ I ended up finding out they've had the floor model sub in-store since 2008. Probably could get it for 1700$ or less...

In both cases the floor models come with full warranties.

The Sub8 is just under 900$ and I'm going to hear it Tuesday(if it's anything close to the sub 10 should be fine, I worked on the sub 10 for 3 months and thought it was adequate)

Is investing in the Klein & Hummel really over doin it? Many people around me think so.

I'm investing in treating my room acoustically also.

*important note: I am not rich been saving for months for this upgrade

 

http://www.audioholics.com/education/loudspeaker-basics/subwoofer-room-size Couple of tech articles here to help you decide what to look for to make your own choice. http://www.audioholics.com/education/loudspeaker-basics/subwoofer-measurement-data

 

To Give you guys an update in the end I bought a Focal CMS SUB, Prime Acoustic's London 12 kit & Speaker stands + Recoil stabilizers fro my A-7Xs. It's been 3 months since the upgrade and I'm very pleased with my choices so far. I get a very good reference for how my tracks will sound in the club at home.

 

Good to get an update on how that worked for you. Thanks for the info.