r/audiophile - Subwoofer Placement Gone Wrong! - www.AcousticFields.com

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  @petekutheis3822 · 2 years ago

  It's just that most of us have 12X10 foot rooms, or if a living room-- maybe 18X12.  What you call next to walls to me is "away", at least for those rooms.  Next to the wall would be like way less than 6 inches. I guess 85% of us are in the near field, or near near field situation.

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• NA

  @NathanOakley1980 · 2 years ago

  I have a fully treated room and I popped my sub on wheels and just tested it in all the available spaces…<br>…by chance it did actually test/sound best between the speakers. I really wanted it to be hidden but that’s not how it worked out. <br><br>I used to sell B&amp;W 800 series, not at all uncommon for UK customers to cram 802 speakers in to tiny spaces, never treated. it always made me chuckle.

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• MP

  @mpitogo1978 · 2 years ago

  home theaters, its tough so what we do is treat the room, then run room correction. &nbsp;I’m doing wave forming and it sounds phenomenal

• BM

  @bmill7353 · 6 months ago

  Amazed that Geddes or Welti weren&apos;t mentioned.

• DH

  @dhl9789 · 5 months ago (edited)

  I downgraded to a 12×20 room with my Yamaha av using classic Celestion Ditton 66 Studio Monitors along with center, surround and presence speakers and a Onyko THX 12&quot; subwoofer. I now share a common wall with my neighbor. My choices are limited now. I set all my speakers to small and from 80HZ on up along with dialing down my subwoofer and away from the backwall to keep the neighbor happy. Im older now and don&apos;t play my system as much or as loud as I use to. Mostly play for theater with a surround decoder. Use pure direct while listening to music. Still sounds good enough for me. I guess next step is headphones to neuter me completely

• RI

  @rickmilam413 · 2 years ago

  Close to wall increases bass distortion by 4 or 5 db? &nbsp;No it doesn&apos;t. &nbsp;It can increase output by that much but it doesn&apos;t causee distortion. &nbsp;The first reflection you mentioned earlier can often be dealt with via absorbtion done correctly. The bigger issue is acoustic loading. &nbsp;I&apos;ve set up hundreds of rooms in my time. &nbsp;So many variables... I like long wall placement but in many rooms where the system is simply too big for the room you swap the side wall issues for being too close to the rear wall and sometimes forcing the listener to sit too close to the back wall. &nbsp;I use everything from a LEAP/LMS gated sine wave analyzer to a MLSSA FFT analyzer (more for design than in room setup) and a Sencore analyzer. &nbsp;Also warble tones. &nbsp;One of my big things is room treatment. &nbsp;Typically there is either none or complete overkill. &nbsp;I set up a pair of new Sasha V&apos;s for someone recently and he was unhappy that his dealer (I&apos;m a long time retired Wilson dealer) just didn&apos;t get it. &nbsp;The room was insanely overdamped, like listening in a box of cotton. &nbsp;I remove over half of the absorption, slightly tweaked the speaker placement and he though I was a genius.

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• WO

  @woolleymammification · 2 years ago

  if you have one glass wall is it better as a back wall or front wall behind the drivers?

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• MA

  @maurice4407 · 2 years ago

  Great video, like &nbsp;always! The biggest problem with my sub in my turntable. <br>Very very hard to find a place or setting that doesn’t affect the reverb from the stylus and back to the speakers. <br>If you address the issue please

• CH

  @ChadAV69 · 2 years ago

  Can&apos;t you just lower the volume of the bass if it&apos;s by a wall

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• DA

  @danke95 · 2 years ago

  I&apos;ve moved my subs all around my room and they sound best a few feet behind my speakers. 🤷🏻

• DA

  @dashcammer4322 · 2 years ago

  So often subs are placed for aesthetics, with no thought given to sound. Not even trying out the sound with the sub in different places, much less elevations.

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• TH

  @TheNathanMChannel · 2 years ago

  There really aren’t any normal houses designed with audio in mind unfortunately. A windowless, symmetrical rectangular box isn’t what an architect is going to go for. You either have to modify or build from scratch. At best you can get one half of a room which is even on left and right.