Sub placement


Many speaker manufactures recomend placing the sub in your listening spot,then go around the room and find where it sounds the best. Where it sounds the best is where they say to put the sub. I have 2 foward firing subs. Does any one have any idea what direction I would place the sub when I find the spot? Has anyone had any luck with this method?
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Try right next to your listening position . My rel placed there was invisible sonically . It sounded like the bass was coming from my speakers . I read a book by Alton Everest ? I think that was his name . He stated that and i thought it was absurd , but being a bachelor i can place a sub in the middle of the room !


Wolf_garcia, regarding your comment:

The "put the sub in your listening spot" suggestion is ridiculous (but amusing) so ignore that one

You are simple incorrect. Placing the sub in the listening position and then walking/crawling across the room to find the place with the most even bass response, helps one find the place in his/her room that beside having an even bass response it is also the acoustic equivalent of the listing position, i.e. the interference pattern of the low waves in that place is very similar to the one in the listening position. The method is not ridiculous at all, in fact it is based on simple 3-dimentional Euclidian geometry.
Placing sub under your listening chair with woofer cone up will create an extra stimulation of your hips groins and genitalias. Your wife/date/girlfriend may like that idea
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Assuming your two subwoofers are getting separate left and right channel signals treat them like extensions of your main speakers by placing them next to, but forward of, your main speakers.

The listening position method is meant for single sub placement and it can be very successful. Unfortunately, those locations can be obtrusive to multi use rooms. Still, if you have the time the procedure can give you another character aspect of your room.

If your subs lack digital signal processing then a product such as DSpeaker may be of great benefit to better integrate your subwoofers into your room and system.