1 vs 2 vs 4 Subwoofers, At The Same Price? The best choice for *YOU*!

There are a LOT of opinions on the best number of subwoofers to use in home theater, MANY are misguided. This is a detailed guide on what YOU should do... Click Vv "More" vV When you follow one of these affiliate links just before any SVS purchase, it can help support the channel, at no additional cost to you. For the vast majority, dual subwoofers are the best solution. Excellent music performance is a solid given with any SVS ported subwoofer, it's the movie explosiveness that increases with wattage. This is the performance progression I'd take myself, at each budget point. https://sub101.link/Dual-PB-1000-Pro https://sub101.link/Dual-PB-2000-PRO https://sub101.link/Dual-PB-3000 https://sub101.link/Dual-PB-16-Ultra I shot this video in October, and finally released it on March 1st. It took a LOT of editing, and it was a bottleneck for my content, but I saw it as an important video to get out to you. My hope is that this is a truly definitive guide to FULLY alleviate your SVS subwoofer decision making woes. You could spend hundreds of hours on forums and YouTube videos, and still not get this clear of an understanding of what's really important *for YOUR desired outcome*. To boil it down to the most simple decision advice: Get the highest wattage, ported dual SVS subwoofer package you can manage. If you can only afford 1, the PB-1000 Pro is the best way to go, with the easiest financial path to add a second one, when you can. You won't regret a higher wattage, matching dual subwoofer set. Music will be incredible at ANY wattage, and movie performance just gets better with more power. My goal with this channel, which is now 9 years old, has been to distill complicated decision making, with 2 decades of experience, into layman's terms, so someone who is brand new can step into the home theater world decades ahead of the game. Based on comments, many of my viewers do exactly that. Just learning how to adjust an AVR takes a LOT of time, beating your head against the wall, fatiguing your ears, just trying to figure out what setting does what, rather than enjoying what you have. My hope is that this channel will get you to the enjoyment phase faster, and reduce the often unnecessary upgrade-itis. A LOT of people buy new equipment in the process of trying to fix a problem that is truly just a settings problem. New equipment may be a little better, but if it's a settings problem, the problem will persist until the settings are addressed. I estimate that tens of millions of dollars per year are spent on equipment purchases, trying to fix what are really just settings problems, which could be resolved for free. "The List", explosive, deep impact subwoofers, truly game changing bass (updated!): http://www.subwoofer101.com/best-subw... My Bass Hack video methods, with a good pair of matched, deep bass subs, are seriously game changing, seriously more than the subs can do on their own without my hacks. I don't say that lightly. The Distance Hack, Crossover Hack, Large vs Small Hack, Gain Hack, and the Adjusting Subs By Ear Hack, in that order, will dramatically improve your bass, with no real negatives. Adjusting By Ear:    • Bass Hack: Adjusting Subs By Ear (Subwoofe...   Speaker Level Hack for distance variations:    • BASS HACK: SPEAKER LEVEL HACK!  (Surrounds...   Unlock Your Blu Ray Player Hack:    • Bass Hack: "UNLOCK" Your Blu Ray Player! (...   The Crossover Hack:    • BASS HACKS: THE CROSSOVER HACK!! More Bass...   The Distance Hack (This one is HUGE):    • BASS HACKS: THE DISTANCE HACK!! THE BEST O...   Large vs Small Hack (using a particular audio track to judge for yourself):    • BASS HACK: Large vs Small? (Denon LFE+Main...   Large Vs Small article, how your AVR crossovers work: https://subwoofer101.com/setting-up-y... **BASS HACK SERIES**:    • Bite-sized Bass Hacks   If you have any ideas, thoughts, or suggestions, please post in the comments below! Follow on Facebook and Twitter   / subwoofer101com     / subwoofer101   https://open.spotify.com/user/subwoof... (my favorite music) Subscribe for more videos like this, and please share this video! 00:00 Intro 00:23 Mistakes are EXPENSIVE 00:34 Your Individual needs matter 00:55 MAX SPL 01:29 Wattage = realism 01:43 Single Subwoofer? 02:31 4 Subwoofers? 03:19 Smooth vs Impact 03:39 It's Complicated 04:07 Music and explosiveness 04:29 Movies are hard 05:13 Bass Hacks MATTER 05:55 Mixing Subwoofers? 07:14 Sealed and ported? 07:30 Explosiveness doesn't hurt 07:55 4 subs output quandary 08:21 Clipping vs Gain Hack 09:00 Music priority 09:19 Movies Priority (most people) 10:36 Not loud enough? 11:22 Something's missing? Distance! 12:00 The mind bender 12:23 Not enough impact? 13:34 Not enough mid-bass? 13:53 PB-1000 Pro? 14:22 Before you upgrade! 14:51 More depth? Nope 15:13 True deep bass is rare 16:08 Room correction pitfalls 16:46 Decision struggle is REAL! 17:01 What has helped you?