Rythmik makes the best home theater subs today thanks to their proprietary tech that absolutely annihilates everyone else’s subs and their ancient designs.

My bottom of the line Hsu sub from 2007 is still banging 7 days a week, all these years later.

Color is distortion. You can always add distortion and color later. I shoot for fidelity.

Guys, I’m used to eating McDonald’s 3 times a day but my wife made reservations at a really nice restaurant. Am I going to enjoy eating good food?

How else are soundproof recording rooms made if there’s nothing you can do to a room?

By making airtight rooms within rooms on top of floating platforms. That is not practical for OP.

99.99% of room treatment in this sub is about acoustic treatment,not soundproofing.

Vibrational energy through the cabinet is going to be a tiny fraction of the bass energy created by the moving cone as part of the operation of the speaker.

Source is not the most important, as most sources impart a relatively small variation in sound. The signal coming off your Sony Walkman CD player will be very, very, very close to what comes off a $10,000 CD player.

Your speakers and the room though? Massive. enormous differences between them.

80 Hz wavelength is greater than 4M.

Your 4 cm leg is not a concern for any subwoofer frequencies.

When you are being honest there are only the most minute differences between any functional DACs

Name an example of a recording engineer that did that. Audio engineer here. I want to hear what you are claiming you can hear clearly.

If your speakers and your sub are both producing 120 Hz but they are greater than 1/4 wavelength apart then you will get comb filtering.

So if you speakers and sub are close enough that any overlapping frequencies will combine constructively then you’re fine.

Get a second sub instead. You will not notice much difference at all between receivers unless there is a new feature you really need.

Your record was likely digitally mixed as well. That is generally not the difference.

No, you aren’t missing anything. Fancy DACs are generally the last ugrade you should make.

My bedroom tv shares a wall with the toddler’s crib on the other side.

Homepods allow me to put the speakers much closer to the bed so the wife and I get the volume and not the toddler.

If you have specific needs for a secondary audio setup, homepods offer some amazing benefits. I love mine and the wife is super happy with the setup.

You should’ve understood it’s capabilities before buying. You want a great deal for $99

Speakers > room > source > amp > dac > interconnects

AudioDiffMaker will objectively determine what the difference is and present it for you to hear.

We all know any difference will be 60 dB or more below the signal level – i.e., entirely inaudible.

That said, if you didn’t have these files ready to go and people had one of these set ups in their homes, many or maybe even most would report hearing a difference, and most would say it is a positive difference.

Ears are very, very easily fooled. And when you want to hear a difference, you will.