I have this rinky dink little powered subwoofer (100 W) from an HT-in-a-box set. I have it tied into my system and I use it mostly when watching DVD/movies.

I don't use it when I listen to music thru my Maggie 1.6's. The thing only goes down to 40 Hz and that's no lower than the Maggies. I just use the "pure direct" thru the a/v receiver to an external amp to the Maggies for music listening.

The few times that I have used the subwoofer with the Maggies, it just seems to drag behind the Maggies. Very disconcerting and not at all pleasant. Planar speakers have always been described as "fast". Am only partially sure what that means but the little sub certainly sounds "slow" when paired up with the Maggies.

I notice that one of our truly worthy moderators employs two 15" Velodyne subs with his Maggie 3.6's. This prompts the following questions:

If I wanted to upgrade my subwoofer to help out the Maggies, would I still run into the same type of slow vs fast problems? Are there slower and faster types of subwoofers? How much might subwoofer placement contribute to the problem?

Geoffcin, I was wondering if you had the same type obstacles to overcome when you originally set up your speaker system?

tx,
Bill