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Subwoofer placement

There are so many different ideas and opinions on this. Corner, center between the mains, side walls.

What have some of you found works best? Sit the sub where you sit and crawl around the room looking for the spot where it sounds best? Or just stuff it in a corner?

Finally, do subs with automatic room equalization functions render placement a relative non-issue?

Revamping my room, looking for some thoughts. Thanks!
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martykl
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Be careful with the "automatic" part of automatic room EQ. My Velodyne SMS-1 does a completely half-ass job on auto room EQ (paramteric controls are NOT employed in the "auto set-up"), but allows astonishingly good results if you're willing to take the (whole lot of) time required to manually tweak the parametrics for optimal results.

Marty
martykl
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BTW,

I'm surprised by the ACI comment re: "near wall placement" as so kindly posted by Jax2. It's true that this placement increases output, but -IME- it also provides much smoother bass response. In fact, it's not even close, as measured by either StudioWizzard or the RTA function internal to my Velodyne SMS.

Marty
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