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Elevated mounting of subwoofer
My living area has two elevated locations that I would like to consider
for locating an as yet unpurchased subwoofer. Both locations are 8 feet off of the floor and the ceiling vaults to 14 feet above either location. These are not shelves... but are solid framed and drywalled areas of the room. The area that they would serve is an 18'X18' living room with a 15'x12' dining room in an L shaped configuration. This are areas are carpeted but closely coupled to a 9'x9' ceramic tiled entryway and a 18'x10' ceramic tiled kitchen. One of the elevated locations is essentially in the center of the entire area and the other location at the center of the longer (48') outside wall. It is possible to mount the sub in one three corners but getting the audio to those locations is not as convenient as it is to either if the elevated locations. The usage will be for both DVD originated home theater as well as FM/CD/DVD originated Classic Rock music. Mike |
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"k9jri" wrote in message
oups.com My living area has two elevated locations that I would like to consider for locating an as yet unpurchased subwoofer. Both locations are 8 feet off of the floor and the ceiling vaults to 14 feet above either location. These are not shelves... but are solid framed and drywalled areas of the room. The area that they would serve is an 18'X18' living room with a 15'x12' dining room in an L shaped configuration. This are areas are carpeted but closely coupled to a 9'x9' ceramic tiled entryway and a 18'x10' ceramic tiled kitchen. One of the elevated locations is essentially in the center of the entire area and the other location at the center of the longer (48') outside wall. It's hard to predict how a subwoofer will sound in any particular location. The location(s) you describe are not obviously bad. The usual advice for positioning subs is that you should put the sub at your prime listening location and then move around the room, listening at various candidate locations. The rule of acoustical reciprocity says that if a sub positioned where you listen sounds good at a certain spot, it will sound good at your listening location when positioned at that same spot. |
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k9jri wrote:
My living area has two elevated locations that I would like to consider for locating an as yet unpurchased subwoofer. Both locations are 8 feet off of the floor and the ceiling vaults to 14 feet above either location. These are not shelves... but are solid framed and drywalled areas of the room. The area that they would serve is an 18'X18' living room with a 15'x12' dining room in an L shaped configuration. This are areas are carpeted but closely coupled to a 9'x9' ceramic tiled entryway and a 18'x10' ceramic tiled kitchen. One of the elevated locations is essentially in the center of the entire area and the other location at the center of the longer (48') outside wall. It is possible to mount the sub in one three corners but getting the audio to those locations is not as convenient as it is to either if the elevated locations. The usage will be for both DVD originated home theater as well as FM/CD/DVD originated Classic Rock music. Mike Give it a try. The worst that would happen is that the performance would not be to your taste. If this is the case, the subs can be laboriously relocated to those alternate sites. The way subs interact with rooms having complex shapes is hard to predict in any case, and so all bets are off when trying to predict if one location away from corners will work better than any other, including the corners. Actually, it would look kind of cool to have subs located as you indicate, and the sound may be just fine. If you opt to get a ported sub, make sure that the port does not get boxed in tightly by the wall area. A sealed-box sub would not have this problem, of course. Howard Ferstler |
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