What I really must avoid is any form of ‘boom’ as I find this very distracting, slows the music and I find it quite fatiguing - I get a bit of ear ache after a while. It took me a fair bit of effort, research and ideas from forums like this to tame the Tannoy but I got it as I wanted in the end - it then started to play up...

am i able to add bit of bass or is sub going to be banging my floor and walls even on a low setting?Remember that most Dali speakers shouldn`t be toed in as in angled toward listener! Spread them apart (equilateral triangle if possible) and put them shooting straight not towards you! x P12-300SB - my preferred option visually and what I am leaning towards. Being larger they would also do a better job of hiding all the power cables for the rest of the system. I have a denon receiver and with mine after using the audyssey it sets my standmount speakers as large, my center as small and my rear speakers as small which there are. The Wharfedale is bass ported, so it may have the edge in terms of outright volume, but would lose out to the sealed-box Gemini in terms of precision and the ability to render more complex bass. The Gemini is an altogether more sophisticated bit of kit with its dual mode input, but if you're only going to run it with the subwoofer out connection from an AV receiver then that functionality is skipped and the two subs end up operating in the same way.

It depends on how your AVR/low pass filter is configured and subwoofer is connected; typically you will configure a cutoff at a point the speakers are starting to struggle to allow the speakers to focus on doing what they do well; this also allows more power to the speakers to be focused on the middle and treble range potentially enhancing them as they're not sinking power into the bass frequencies; whilst the Subwoofer does the heavy lifting. It does depend on how you've got it configured though, it is also essentially possible to run the Subwoofer off the same output as the speakers; in which case the subwoofer and the speakers can essentially be trying to transmit those bass frequencies. Typically this doesn't sound as good though as the Subwoofer bass and speaker bass will not always be in sync, and the speakers will likely struggle much more easily with lower bass frequencies. in a room about 3m x 4m with normal height ceiling (bit less than 3m). It will be sat under the desk (speakers sat on the desktop) and I don't have a huge amount of flexibility in regards to placement (though if its really necessary I have space in front of the desk (behind where I sit) and off to the left (facing the desk). A good subwoofer will allow you to hear and feel things a cheap subwoofer or most speakers just cannot. Ultimately, in the long run I plan to upgrade the speakers to something like Tannoy Precision 6.2 LE (the UK made higher grade version), SF Sonnetto III or Fynne Audio F501SP (UK made version) so I would want the BKs to fit well at that level.If I didn’t already have a ‘spare‘ Gem II that I could partner, and were the optimum location not quite so dominating, I probably would go for two DGs. However, without hearing the dual Gem IIs in action I would probably have taken advice and gone for XLS200 or XLS400 as the more musical option so in that respect, I may have overlooked the DG anyway. Tempted to get a second XLS 200 for use with the LS50s sometime but might be overkill in that room.