To find your satisfactory subwoofer sound start by hooking up the subwoofer and turning on music or a movie that has a lot of bass.
Does the subwoofer have to be on the floor.
Also the bottom most shelf still has two draws below it would that interfere with the sound.
The subwoofer can handle all the low frequency bass sounds in a home theater.
Also subs have dedicated power on board lessening the strain on your a v.
Subwoofers are less obtrusive than the sort of floor standing speakers with drivers big enough to pull off the same task.
The most important thing is that it should be decoupled from the floor.
Does the subwoofer have to be on the floor.
The shelves and draws are very.
We have a home theater situation we have all our subwoofers on the floor of the room.
We have seen why the subwoofer should not be kept on the floor.
But i m not suggesting that it should be elevated and kept halfway between the floor and the ceiling.
The great thing about a subwoofer especially a wireless subwoofer is they can be situated almost anywhere on your floor space.
Although many people have had this question there is no perfect answer.
There is no formula for locating the best spot.
What this means is that the vibrations that are transferred from your subwoofer to the floor should be minimized.
We re pressurizing a big part of the room coupled to these actual structure itself.
I plan on putting a home theater in my library.
If you put a sub on the floor its reflection is the same as having two subs.
But in order to get a smoother frequency response we need to raise the height of these subwoofers within our room.
Now if you place the subwoofer in the corner of the room it doubles again as you now have two walls and the floor to reflect off.
And it s truly your personal preference.
Ideally i would like to place the sub on the bottom most shelf of a cabinet since all my walls are covered by shelves cabinets.
Placing the subwoofer against the wall and on the floor you ve effectively doubled the reflection again.