Quote Originally Posted by shaemus
I have a 13x16 room. My receiver is a Marantz sr5300 and I plan to get the Paradigm Montitor 7's and cc370 centre channel. (my old pro-linear bookshelves and centre are in the rear until I can upgrade) The Paradigm PDR10 is in my price range but Paradigm recommends matching the PS series or higher with the Monitor 7's and the Servo gets great reviews but these are more expensive than I had planned on.

My listening will be about 50/50 music and movies though I feel musicality is important in a sub for me. Some members here have not been happy with the PDR series. (CAM comes to mind?) What are your oppinions. I am not set on Paradigm for the sub. Is a 10 inch sub a decent match for these speakers or do I need bigger? It is seeming that I have not budgeted enough for this item. Used maybe? Any thoughts?
With a larger, more powerful sub. The question is are you going to be able to use it's abilities in your modest sized room? I think that would depend on your tastes in movies mostly.

I have several movies that require me to hook "everything" up in order to do them justice. I am running very powerful towers, the Cambridge Soundworks T500's. There bass can knock things off shelves, and for most movies they are more than enough. But for a movie like "Saving Private Ryan", or "Master and Commander" I also hook my audio setup into the HT setup, and use my 15" Velodynes for the LFE. On movies like this the feeling of having the fillings jared out of your teeth is nessasary for realism. Is this something you also want to be able to do? Then a 10" sub is just not going to cut it. But, on the other hand, if your not into this, why bother with a more expensive sub when you could spend the money upgrading some other part of your system.

A servo controlled sub is not nessasary unless you intend on using it mostly for music, the quality is wasted on movie LFE. Even for music, at most listening levels your going to be hard pressed to hear a difference between a servo sub, and non-servo. Only if you have a very high resolution system, and play it at more than "normal" levels will a servo sub make a difference.