You're placing your speakers in the optimal position for your listening. That doesn't mean that is the optimal position for the subs. Sub placement will be trial and error until you find the optimal placement.
Speakers on top of subwoofer
Is mounting a speaker on top of a sub a bad idea? Specifically, a Harbeth 40.x mounted with isolators on each corner so the cabinet can flex/breath on top of a Rythmyk E15 I have a limited amount of floor space and the Rythmyk is a little taller than a Tonteger which is a good thing since the Tons are a little short to place the tweeter around my ear height.
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The Wilson Audio speaker cabinets are designed to be mounted. The Harbeth isn’t. - - - Excepted from this article. Wilson Audio has long put much stock in the composite materials they make their cabinets from. X-Material, the primary material . . . - - - The S-Material, which is used for the company’s front baffles, "provides a neutral and natural surface . . . " - - - The new V-Material, which is used where two parts of the cabinet come together, "behaves like a vibration absorber," according to Wilson. It is used in the top panel of the woofer cabinet, where the objective, clearly, is to keep vibrations from the woofer cabinet from reaching the gantry and the lowest gantry-mounted driver . . . |
@gdaddy1 You’re really missing the point in this case. The Harbeths were not designed to be placed on top of a sub, and the sub wasn’t designed to have a speaker placed on top of it whereas the Wilsons were designed to work that way. Also, the best place to put subs for optimal bass in a room is pretty much never where the speakers are placed and in many cases it’s a poor place to put subs — any basic research on sub placement/room measurement will tell you that. So for these reasons putting those nice Harbeths on subs is just not a good idea and should be avoided if at all possible for the benefit of both the speakers and the subs. |
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