HELP - Subwoofer placement


Hello everyone.

I have recently decided to experiment with a subwoofer for my system (mainly audio, little HT) and dug out my old Definitive Technology SUB1000 from my now retired HT system. My room has a quite inconvenient L-shape with ver few options for speaker placement. I have used my kid’s drawing program to describe it as best as I could below where my two ELAC Navis ARB-51 active bookshelf speakers are the red squares (too far apart but little I can do about it, also for wife-acceptance reasons). The sub is currently in the purple square and I sit in the black L on my corner sofa. Grey squares are other potential placement options. The big brown rectangle is a massive brick fireplace. I forgot to draw a large cabinet sitting directly left of the sub in the guest dining area of my room (ie no man’s land).

Considering the improved SQ despite (i) potentially poor current placement/tuning and (ii) decidedly poor sub quality (much more of a big HT boomer), I have now just bought a used REL T7 (1st gen) which I will be getting next week.

Questions I have are:

1. If using one sub only, where would you put it?

2. If using two subs, would you use the two grey positions or right grey and purple? I read that opposing “corners” can be helpful to get rid of nodes

3. Do you see a lot of value in adding a second decent sub (thinking REL T5 to sit in the right, closed off area with the T7 to power through the more open space on the left)? IMO keeping the DefTech sub will only negatively affect the SQ of the T7.

My art

Many thanks already for your views. Jokes about my drawing abilities of course welcome! 🤣

laimac

Showing 2 responses by oldhvymec

One sub. Set on it or put it right behind your sitting chair. That is what you're looking for. You want to feel it through your bottom. You picked the right type of sub.. Now add about 100lb on top of each sub or like I said, set on it.. It will really couple and rattle the joint..

Merry Christmas

OP the Arrays or swarms can use cabinets as small as .75cf. 4 small front firing or even ported cabinets will amaze you. BTW you can hide a .75-1.0cf box pretty easy. They are small and very effective.

James Romeyn was hooked up with VMPS for over 25 years the company closed and of course the staff moved on. He was a huge promoter of Class Ds in the very early days to with Hypex 400 modules too. There are a lot of them still out there made by his hand...

DEBRA Distributed Enhanced Bass Reflex Array - James ...

https://jamesromeyn.com › audiokinesis-speaker-models

DEBRA is an AudioKinesis licensed clone of AK Swarm HERE. DEBRA cabinets are wider and shallower, and comprise a different panel material.

I’m not affiliated with any of them in any way, neither is the rabbit (Junior) or the dog (Bubs).

Regards