Subwoofer placement

Although no one can tell you where to put your sub, and Lord knows how many times I have moved my sub here and there and back again, I like these white paper studies from Harman. They make for some interesting reading about acoustics, reproduction, speaker and sub placement.

http://www.harman.com/EN-US/OurCompany/Technologyleadership/Pages/WhitePapers.aspx?CategoryID=White%20papers

http://www.harman.com/EN-US/OurCompany/Technologyleadership/Documents/White%20Papers/multsubs.pdf

http://www.harman.com/EN-US/OurCompany/Technologyleadership/Documents/White%20Papers/LoudspeakersandRoomsPt3.pdf

Be careful with the "automatic" part of automatic room EQ. My Velodyne SMS-1 does a completely half-ass job on auto room EQ (paramteric controls are NOT employed in the "auto set-up"), but allows astonishingly good results if you're willing to take the (whole lot of) time required to manually tweak the parametrics for optimal results.

Marty

BTW,

I'm surprised by the ACI comment re: "near wall placement" as so kindly posted by Jax2. It's true that this placement increases output, but -IME- it also provides much smoother bass response. In fact, it's not even close, as measured by either StudioWizzard or the RTA function internal to my Velodyne SMS.

Marty

Cant beat center placement. I dont care what anyone says. I know better. HUGE difference!

I tried most of whats been offered and if you have a room that you can place the sub "anywhere".... I would try putting it in the listening position firing into the room and then place it where the bass is best sounding in the room.