Can one have a subwoofer thats too big for a room

[Sheep]

yes, I think you can, but nothing a bigger door wouldn't fix..

As far as overpowering a room and turning down the volume, I think {not positive} some speakers sound better at certain volumes, I know I have a set of bookshelfs that sound really good when played around 93db, but when played at low volume they sound sub par... I have others that sound good at low volumes and dont hold up at high volumes,,,, this could be my ears because i don't know if speakers measure different at different volumes...

Actually, Most music is mix and mastered around 85dB, so it usually sounds best at these volumes, as this is the volume it was tweaked to perfection at. The human ear also hears the best around 85dB.

SheepStar

 

[Ed Mullen]

To me this is more of a frequency response issue, than a headroom issue.

If the room is smaller/enclosed and exhibits a lot of room gain, a subwoofer which has a flat quasi-anechoic response to very deep frequencies will exhibit a rising low-end response in-room, and will sound bottom-heavy. To the extent this can be ameliorated by an auto-set-up routine which EQ's the sub channel (like Audyssey) or an external device - great. But that's not always the case.

So in this sense - yes - I think a subwoofer can be 'too big' for the room. Perhaps a more accurate way to phrase it would be a subwoofer which is designed to measure well in a larger room (which exhibits little/no room gain) is probably not the best choice in a smaller room - headroom issues notwithstanding.

A sealed subwoofer with an earlier and shallower roll-off profile would be a better match to the acoustic transfer function of a small/enclosed room, and will measure better and sound more accurate.

 

[darien87]

my vtf2 cracked my plaster ceiling, and that was just one playing at a decent level during gi joe, I had the ceiling fixed and turned the sub up about a week later to see if it was actually my sub that did it and it did it in a new spot same style crack, havent had that fixed yet..

Are you serious? You cracked your ceiling and then did it again just to see how it happened? You're like the kid that touches the hot stove just to see what getting burned feels like.

 

[Irvrobinson]

Are you serious? You cracked your ceiling and then did it again just to see how it happened? You're like the kid that touches the hot stove just to see what getting burned feels like.

We Irvs aren't always the sharpest knives in the drawer.