Subwoofer setup dos & don’ts (Albuquerque Journal)
Merely buying a great subwoofer is no guarantee you’ll wind up with great
bass. There are too many ways to squander its performance potential. That’s
why putting in the extra effort to achieve proper subwoofer setup is crucial.
A Bowers & Wilkins DB1 subwoofer
(Credit: Bowers & Wilkins)
The No. 1 setup myth is: You can place a sub “anywhere” in the room. Well, of
course you can, but chances are it won’t sound very good.
The “anywhere” strategy might be an even more tempting option with wireless
subs, which sometimes come with claims that they can be placed 60 feet from
the speakers, but I guarantee if you do that with very small satellites the
speakers will sound bass-shy, and the bass will obviously be tied to the sub,
way over on the other side of the room. The perfect subwoofer setup makes
little speakers sound bigger than they really are, and you won’t hear the sub
as a separate sound source.
The basis of the anywhere placement strategy is the fact that deep bass sounds
are “omnidirectional” so it’s difficult to pin down the exact location of a
subwoofer producing deep (under 80Hz) bass …
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