yes on the spikes. i have talked to rel on how to set them up and i know how they do it. what you do is see what side of the room sounds the loudest. you do this by setting the crossover at about 40 hz and put the sub either along the short wall or the long wall. play some music with bass as well as turning up the gain on the sub so you can hear the bass coming from it. pull the sub away from the wall at about 45 degree until you hear the bass pick up or get louder and it will. continue until the bass gets less. then move the sub back to the point where it was the loudest. check the other corner and see if that corner is louder. i have found that the left corner with every rel i had it went into the left corner. i also found that the sub did its best against the wall you have it now but move it close to the side and back wall. also check to see if the bass plays louder out of phase. it does for some but never in any of my rooms. so when you have the sub against the wall just pull it out, you want to try to keep the same distance from the side and back wall. this gives you a idea how you need to pull it out. when you find the spot this will load the room properly and that is why the bass will be louder and deeper. works everytime. then put your crossover points back to minimal and see where the best crossover point on the sub controls will be. rel recommends this set up as well as getting those spikes off as this is working against a good floor,i have had concrete and the spikes suck the life out of deep bass. if you do this you will really hear what that sub is capable of. by the way how big is the room the stadium mk3 is in ?????? i no longer use a rel as i went with full range tyler acoustic woodmeres with external xovers. the response on them are 22-25khz. the reason i ask about your room size i moved my system from another room into a room 16 wide with a vaulted ceiling and 21.5 ft long with another 23ft behind me and rel told me the sub was not the right size and recommended i believe the stentor. rel believes only in one sub and with their subs getting one bigger rel will outperform 2 stadium mk3's in the same room. rel contributes this to frequency cancellation but do not get this with one sub that is for the right size room. i know this is a little long but if you try it, it will yeild you better sound that what you are experiencing now as rel subs are designed to be corner loaded

millenium August 08, 2005 21:35

you can get better bass than what you are getting now because the way you have your subwoofer set up is not really recommended by rel. they are to be corner loaded and do not use spikes.on a good support floor the spikes will actually decouple the sub from the floor which will reduce the amount of bass. the closer to the floor the better for a rel sub. i have had about 3 rel's including the one you have. the center setup looks uniform but actually defeats the purpose of getting good bass. rel has a specific way to set them up and they train dealers to do this but anyone can do it. if you would like to know or already know try it, it makes for a huge improvement not only in bass but soundstaging, imaging etc... good luck

millenium August 07, 2005 04:15