What this means is that the vibrations that are transferred from your subwoofer to the floor should be minimized.
Does the subwoofer have to be on the floor.
But i m not suggesting that it should be elevated and kept halfway between the floor and the ceiling.
Subwoofers are less obtrusive than the sort of floor standing speakers with drivers big enough to pull off the same task.
The great thing about a subwoofer especially a wireless subwoofer is they can be situated almost anywhere on your floor space.
Typically you position a subwoofer along the front wall of the room.
But in order to get a smoother frequency response we need to raise the height of these subwoofers within our room.
The subwoofer can handle all the low frequency bass sounds in a home theater.
Also subs have dedicated power on board lessening the strain on your a v.
We have seen why the subwoofer should not be kept on the floor.
Ideally i would like to place the sub on the bottom most shelf of a cabinet since all my walls are covered by shelves cabinets.
Although many people have had this question there is no perfect answer.
The most important thing is that it should be decoupled from the floor.
I plan on putting a home theater in my library.
To find your satisfactory subwoofer sound start by hooking up the subwoofer and turning on music or a movie that has a lot of bass.
And it s truly your personal preference.
The shelves and draws are very.
Moving all of the bass sounds to the subwoofer gives your front speakers the ability to focus on mid and high range frequencies.
If you put a sub on the floor its reflection is the same as having two subs.
Now if you place the subwoofer in the corner of the room it doubles again as you now have two walls and the floor to reflect off.
We have a home theater situation we have all our subwoofers on the floor of the room.
Also the bottom most shelf still has two draws below it would that interfere with the sound.
There is no formula for locating the best spot.
Placing the subwoofer against the wall and on the floor you ve effectively doubled the reflection again.