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Post by patate91 on Jul 28, 2018 22:14:25 GMT
Subwoofer on the floor or not?
I tried to find measurements or more details about subwoofer placed higher in the room but didn't get good information.
Can it help with room modes? Let say I do a coffee table with a subwoofer on a stand right next to the listening spot.
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Post by Michael Lawrence on Jul 28, 2018 22:22:23 GMT
Put the subwoofer on a stand so it's exactly where your head would be at the listening position. Then crawl around on the floor and LISTEN and take measurements until you find the best spot. Put the sub there.
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Post by patate91 on Jul 28, 2018 22:31:40 GMT
Put the subwoofer on a stand so it's exactly where your head would be at the listening position. Then crawl around on the floor and LISTEN and take measurements until you find the best spot. Put the sub there. I know this is a workaround to find the right spot. But what about a long term placement higher in the room? I guess right behind the head is not a great idea, but I think it would be possible to integrate it in the room's fourniture, no? |
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Post by Michael Lawrence on Jul 28, 2018 22:35:22 GMT
Why do you feel that higher placement is necessary?
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Post by patate91 on Jul 28, 2018 22:38:58 GMT
Why do you feel that higher placement is necessary? Because the right spot on the floor may be not practical or functional. Or can it help with height modes? |
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Post by Michael Lawrence on Jul 29, 2018 1:05:03 GMT
It depends on which mode is causing the trouble. REW has a room simulator. You can move the sub around the space and see how the modal response changes. That's much faster and easier than actually moving everything around.
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Post by Hexspa on Jul 29, 2018 7:38:34 GMT
There tends to be some default 'best practice' locations that seem to work repeatably well. The best one, I've found is 1/4 distance of your short, front, wall in the corner that 'sees' your longest length angle. Floor or ceiling doesn't matter but as close as possible to two boundaries does.
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Post by Ethan Winer on Aug 3, 2018 19:23:06 GMT
I've recently been playing around with the Room Simulator feature of REW, and it does exactly what you're asking about. You can put the sub anywhere in the room - on the floor, up at the ceiling etc. This app works best with rectangle rooms, and you should still measure the response to find the final placements. But this will get you very close to optimum with minimal physical messing around. If you're on Facebook I just made a post there about this REW feature. It's at the top of the list: www.facebook.com/ethan.winer.1 |
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