The following suggestions are intended as guidelines to help you decide which locations to try for your
•Corner placement usually produces the most bass, but sometimes produces poorly defined or boomy bass. A corner location that produces a lot of clean bass is fine; if, however, the bass is boomy or resonant then you should try another location.
•Try various locations along side and rear walls. It’s often better to place a subwoofer several feet away from the corner along one wall; any location anywhere along a wall may be a good spot to locate your
•Avoid locations where your
•A subwoofer should not be heard as a distinct source of sound. A properly configured subwoofer should add a solid “foundation” to your music; it should not, however, be discernible as a separate source of sound. Even though low bass is
•Multiple subwoofers should sometimes be placed at different types of locations. For example, if you are adding a second
•Avoid placing subwoofers within several feet of a turntable or other sensitive audio device. Even if you use isolation feet or an isolation base, low frequency vibrations travel directly through the air, and may be coupled to a turntable arm or platter. You may also find that your turntable is more immune to vibration with (or without) the dust cover in place. The result of acoustic feedback may be actual howling noises or record skips or a more subtle muddying of the bass on some musical passages. Since a lot of audio equipment is at least somewhat sensitive
to vibration, you may get better results by locating your subwoofer along a side or back wall rather than by placing it directly behind or beside your equipment rack.
•Sound becomes less directional as the frequency gets lower. The sound coming from a subwoofer configured to cross over at 80 Hz (the THX™ standard) is almost totally
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