Improving sub quality

I have a REL on carpet on a suspended wooden floor and it sounded worse on spikes. It surprised me, but REL generally recommend against spikes, so perhaps they know better.

I have found the best room loading to be out towards the middle of the room (just in front of one of the main speakers, following a Cardas placement method). REL's corner placement always sounded boomy to me.

When it comes to placement you'll have to decide. Obviously major differences between all of our rooms and preferences. You may want to read about room acoustics if you haven't. A bass trap or two can do alot of good when you have honest bass down low.

Dear Mark: You have to have your subs really " anchor " to the floor with out any movement between the sub/spike and between spike/floor. You can improve your sub's sound reproduction if you put some " weight " at the top panel: 20-30 kgs.

The Aurios goes against the performance sub's ( floating ). Maybe Ipy thinks he had an improvement but is not, he had a heavy degradation on the music/sound reproduction at the low end.

Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.

My subs sit on an auralex Gramma stacked and corner loaded. Not too boomy, and reasonably careful phase adjustment, SPL measurements, and gain control has kept things seemingly accurate.

Hi Rauliruegas,
I did perceive the bass response to be better controlled when the sub is being floated by the Aurios. What I could hear better is the individual bass notes being played either from a movie or musical concert dvds. IMO the "quality" of the bass has certainly improved but the "quantity" has a diminishing effect. YMMV though.