on this other forum i sometimes go to, they are getting all worked up about raising up their sub/s.
Can you please link this thread? I'm pretty curious. PM or here, doesn't matter, thanks.
seems odd to me. the only experience i have along these lines = when i first got my swans, i wanted to break em in some. so i played some stereo music. i placed my center on the floor and powered it up. on the floor, it had some good bass. i then lifted it up, and the bass dropped fast. this, to me, says that raising a speaker off the floor, will drop the bottom end.
idk either, but I do know that having a "center" speaker too close to the floor has you suffer unwanted midbass boosts. Now, you might like midbass boosted, but the problem arises when these boosts mask the dialogue frequencies. I have this issue, somewhat, and I ameliorated that by placing my center speaker on an actual acoustical panel. Still issues, but much better. Audyssey helped some more. Still, with certain boosts do I lose that "centering" of dialogue and am able to localize these midbass boosts coming from the center speaker. Do I have fantastic HT experiences? Yes. Is it compromised? Yes.
but at the same time, a center is not a sub. so idk. what do you guys know ?
thanx
The first time I've ever read about doing this was actually here at AH. I believe it was Savant (resident acoustic expert), and IIRC he was mentioning having
different subs on different planes. As for simply just raising a single sub, no, I haven't read about that (outside of decoupling devices like Auralex Grammas, etc).
If you think about it, the floor is a boundary. Some people go to the extent of putting their sub in a corner, which means
three boundaries. I've never ever once heard a corner loaded sub that I liked, but I also have never heard a corner loaded sub in a properly treated room. I've been taught that the best of both worlds would be to have corner loading for efficiency (greater headroom, less distortion), as long as the room is properly treated so that the maximally excited modes are not localizable or overwhelming.
I would maybe cross post in the acoustics subforum so that Savant might see this.
