Eric Desrochers wrote:
Hum, no. I have not talked about placement of the box, I have talked
about it's orientation, "aiming", which are two different things, of
course.
well ok then, placement of the woofer, not the box...
If you aim a woofer *box* at you the woofer will be at point X
if you aim the woofer box away from you keeping the *box*
in the exact same place, the woofer will move to the other side of
the box, and the woofer will now no longer be at X, it will be
the width of the box further away from you....
So, aiming a woofer is usually achieved by turning the box, its
not actually the aiming of the woofer that makes the differences
we hear, but instead, its the position of the woofer changing relative
to the vehicle and our listening area in the vehicle...
And as pinted out in my cartoons, aiming the box IS moving
the woofer.... (TYPICLY)....
I do sound reinforcment as part of my day job and I'm into big home
theater here, so I know very well that the placement of a sub enclosure
will make or break a system. But this whole thread was about the
orientation of the sub (aiming, pointing).
Good enough, I guess it was stupid of me to assume you read my
paper and understood that although the paper is titled AIMING
it is really about POSITIONING the woofer....
Having the box closer to the rear of the car however is different : you
are not only aiming it, you are *moving* it, which *may* change
something due to the (possible) better loading of the driver. Just like
puting a home sub near a wall or near a corner will reinforce it.
it sounds like were on the same page, I think if you had taken 2 minutes
to read my article on this you would have been quick to agree ...
Eddie Runner
http://installer.com/tech/aiming.html
BTW, I titled the article AIMING because thats what the kiddos percieve
as the change, even though anyone that reads the article can easily see its
really position of the woofer itself that matters.... If I called the
article something
else, all the kids that turn the box around backwards in thier trunk and AIM
the woofer to the rear would probably never find my article....