Sub placement with powered towers

[The Jay]

Hi guys, building towards 7.2.4 in a basement rectangle space of 12.5'x23'x8'(h).
I'm at 5.0 right now with goldenear triton 2+, super centre xxl and Mpx's for the side surrounds. Time to get one sub for now, I'll get the second later. The tritons' subs hit some frequencies nicely but I'd like more consistency and for some lower end.

I read Gene's article on sub placement. Since the tritons have subs in them, I take it these count as subs in the front corners and so I'd place the separate subs in the rear corners, correct? See if that's the case I'll likely go with pc-2000s. If they had to go anywhere else I'd then likely go pub-2000s....the height of the cylinders further up the room would be an issue.

So have I got that right? Tritons up front and two subs in the rear corners?

 

[shadyJ]

You can't really know about consistency until you measure the response. Sure, adding a couple more subs will probably smooth out the response, but that is not a certainty. Furthermore, you won't know the right settings until you measure the responses anyway. If I were you, I would get a measurement microphone along with the subs, if you don't already have one.

 

[yepimonfire]

Hi guys, building towards 7.2.4 in a basement rectangle space of 12.5'x23'x8'(h).
I'm at 5.0 right now with goldenear triton 2+, super centre xxl and Mpx's for the side surrounds. Time to get one sub for now, I'll get the second later. The tritons' subs hit some frequencies nicely but I'd like more consistency and for some lower end.

I read Gene's article on sub placement. Since the tritons have subs in them, I take it these count as subs in the front corners and so I'd place the separate subs in the rear corners, correct? See if that's the case I'll likely go with pc-2000s. If they had to go anywhere else I'd then likely go pub-2000s....the height of the cylinders further up the room would be an issue.

So have I got that right? Tritons up front and two subs in the rear corners?

Sounds good to me. I recently experimented with running a sub in the rear corner and my fronts as large (which extend nearly as low as my sub) and it did smooth out the bass around the room.

The main problem you'd have is the built in subs won't extend as low as or keep up with a dedicated sub, so you'll probably have to adjust levels and eq the dedicated subs to make up for that.

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[kini]

Hi guys, building towards 7.2.4 in a basement rectangle space of 12.5'x23'x8'(h).
I'm at 5.0 right now with goldenear triton 2+, super centre xxl and Mpx's for the side surrounds. Time to get one sub for now, I'll get the second later. The tritons' subs hit some frequencies nicely but I'd like more consistency and for some lower end.

I read Gene's article on sub placement. Since the tritons have subs in them, I take it these count as subs in the front corners and so I'd place the separate subs in the rear corners, correct? See if that's the case I'll likely go with pc-2000s. If they had to go anywhere else I'd then likely go pub-2000s....the height of the cylinders further up the room would be an issue.

So have I got that right? Tritons up front and two subs in the rear corners?

It would probably be best to run the towers as small, start with a 60hz crossover and experiment with sub placement.

 

[The Jay]

Thanks everyone much appreciated