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Installation
Positioning
Although the position of subwoofers
a lot of trial-and-error experimentation.
in the listening room is generally less
Always trust your ears, even if the
critical than full-range speakers, we
position of the subwoofer seemingly
still recommend that you select your
goes against the guidelines.
Sub 6 position carefully. With careful
Contradictory as it may seem, good
positioning the subwoofer will integrate
integration of subwoofers has been
more seamlessly with the other speakers
achieved when one isn't aware that a
in the system, and interact optimally with
subwoofer is present at all in the system,
the room acoustics.
yet performance involves fast, deep and
solid bass without sounding stressed,
The following notes should be taken
even at loud levels.
as rough guidelines; bass response
in general is very dependent on the
Choose adequate music material
acoustics of the listening environment.
When experimenting to find the
Finding the best position often involves
optimal location, use a couple of music
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tracks with repetitive bass across a
large spectrum. The tracks should be
sufficiently different from each other
and each should cover a wide bass-
range. Musical instruments, such as a
double-bass, bass guitar, church organ,
etc. cover a wide spectrum in the bass
region and are therefore very suitable.
Using non-music (such as action movies)
material to position and adjust the
subwoofer with, may lead to spectacular
results with such material but almost
always it will result in overblown and
excessive bass when playing music with
the same setting.
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Impact of Room-modes
Every listening environment will have
Avoid placing the subwoofer at
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specific "room-modes", whereby in
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some specific locations in the room and
or width of the room as at these
at particular frequencies, the bass may
locations the room-modes are likely
be too much or too lean. This effect will
to be strongest (the dashed lines in
be stronger in square and "shoe-box"
the figure)
shaped rooms. With a single subwoofer,
the better position for the subwoofer
relative to the listening position will be
the one where bass is perceived to be
neither too much nor too lean at any
given frequency.
Listening Room
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Using multiple subwoofers
By using carefully positioned multiple
subwoofers it is possible to even out the
different room-modes and thus create
a more coherent overall bass response
in the room. It is worth experimenting
with different locations around the
room for the additional subwoofers,
even using the rear of the room. As
adding subwoofers will not increase the
effect of room-modes, even adding a
subwoofer without much care or thought
to positioning is likely to help even out
room-modes.
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