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Subs on stands

Wondering if y'all have any experience with subs on stands.  Is there a improvement in sound.
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erik_squires
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Depends. Generally you want minimum contact with the floor, and also minimum rocking potential, so anything you can do to minimize the contact footprint, and extend the footprint or lower the center of gravity and increase mass is good.


Any speaker driver will suffer from reflections from the floor boundary too, so keeping a sub close to the floor and walls can help minimize this particular effect.

I’ve had good luck with IsoTunes in general.
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bdp24
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If you put your room dimensions into one of the room mode calculators on the ’net, you can see where in the room it’s modes and anti-modes are located (always but not exclusively at the wall/ceiling/floor intersections. Other locations are in the middle of a room’s length, width, and height, as well at 1/3 and 2/3 intervals). If possible, do NOT position your subs (or speakers) at those locations.

A few years ago, I read one acoustics authority (yes, I believe in appeal to authority) state that considerations of a sub’s location in a room can and should include not only it’s position in relation to the room’s length and width, but also it’s height. And that raising a sub off the floor should be seriously considered. Wish I could recall who that authority was.

Acoustic Sciences Corporation (better known as ASC) offers a Bass Trap/Sub Stand, which some might view as an oxymoron. ;-)

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