Sub Woofer vibrations

[fvig]

I installed a sub in my sons room on the third floor of our house and the whole house vibrates to the point were we can't hear our TV or music. It's not so much the volume but the vibrations. The sub's speaker faces down. My question; is there a mat or anything I can do to help this?

 

[avaserfi]

Look into an item like the Auralex Gramma. It is specifically designed to decouple a subwoofer or loudspeaker from the floor minimizing transfered energy.

 

[croseiv]

Look into an item like the Auralex Gramma. It is specifically designed to decouple a subwoofer or loudspeaker from the floor minimizing transfered energy.

Or the Sub Dude...

 

[RequiemX]

Wish I could get my upstairs apartment neighbors to get a Sub Dude...subs should be banned in all leases since everybody insists on cranking huge subs in their apartments...

 

[Hostility]

have you tried cranking yours louder? but i guess then that would start a war.

 

[croseiv]

Wish I could get my upstairs apartment neighbors to get a Sub Dude...subs should be banned in all leases since everybody insists on cranking huge subs in their apartments...

Yeah, subs and apartments are a bad combination. Especially one that's powerful.

 

[skizzerflake]

I installed a sub in my sons room on the third floor of our house and the whole house vibrates to the point were we can't hear our TV or music. It's not so much the volume but the vibrations. The sub's speaker faces down. My question; is there a mat or anything I can do to help this?

If the sub has a lot of oomph, making things vibrate is what they do, which is accomplished by moving large volumes of air, not passing vibrations to the floor. My Hsu is carefully decoupled from the floor, but from the basement, a movie like the Dark Knight still sounds like a thunderstorm on the second floor. Walls that filter out a lot of highs, will be transparent to lows. Once you bought them a subwoofer, you opened the door; now it's an issue of agreeing on an acceptable loudness.

 

[Buckeye_Nut]

If the sub has a lot of oomph, making things vibrate is what they do, which is accomplished by moving large volumes of air, not passing vibrations to the floor. My Hsu is carefully decoupled from the floor, but from the basement, a movie like the Dark Knight still sounds like a thunderstorm on the second floor. Walls that filter out a lot of highs, will be transparent to lows. Once you bought them a subwoofer, you opened the door; now it's an issue of agreeing on an acceptable loudness.

Well said....

A "Sub mat" will do absolutely nothing to fix the problem.

 

[croseiv]

Well said....

A "Sub mat" will do absolutely nothing to fix the problem.

Well, according to the maker, it should do something, but that's something I've personally not tested (no need to as my subs are on a concrete foundation). It may help with some of the vibrations, but it will do nothing for the low frequencies passing through the floor/walls.