Do you think you need a subwoofer?

Dear friends: Almost always we can to be rewarding our time/efforts trying to improve our audio system setting.

Yesterday I wonder what could be happen if I set up my subwoofers a little higher from the floor and this is what I do, four inches total height ( maybe in the future I could try a higher one but for the moment I'm very satisfied. )

The change was/is remarkable: the bass is more tight and with better definition( pitch ), less " bass noise/garbage ", better midbass and clearer/clean midrange/high frequencies response. Awesome !!!!!!!!!

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.

Rauliruegas...Not surprising to me. My subwoofer systems, each consisting of a 15" and a 12" driver, has the centerpoint of the two drivers about 40 inches above the floor. This puts them near centered behind my Maggies, which was a design objective.

By the way, I also elevated the Maggies by about six inches, and that helped too.

I have always been a fan of elevating speakers, including suspending them from the ceiling if the wife permits. (They usually don't).

I stopped suspending my speakers when I bought the 350 pound per side Duntech Sovereigns.

The reason for the wider soundstage is that the subwoofer has its own amp and therefore the burden of those power gobbling lows are taken from the regular amp which can perform better. Subs are particularly important in video presentations, because there is lots of very low stuff on DVD hat have nothing to do with music, but which taxes regular amps and woofers

Bruce Edgar recommends lifting his mid-bass horns a few inches off the floor. My implementation of his mid-bass weight so much I had to put them on casters so by default they are lifted almost 3". The bass horn is also lifted ~3" only because the casters make it easier to adjust room location.

I've not heard anything as tuneful as bass done by horns. YMMV.