Best place for your High End Home Theater Subwoofer

1. The corners:

When you place the Home theater subwoofer at the corner close to the walls, more powerful bass is produced. But a Single Home theater subwoofer close to a flat wall, especially to a corner, might create an uneven, boomy bass response that might be unpleasant to feel and hear.

But if you happen to own four capable home theater subwoofers, The 4 room corners might be the best place for them.

If the Subwoofer is of ported type, it features a small opening to facilitate airflow. You would want to keep it at a certain distance from the wall to allow optimum air circulation in such a case.

2. In front of the wall:

Placing Home cinema subwoofer in front of the wall complements the main speakers to produce well-integrated sound. Placing a powered Subwoofer at the front also allows for easy connections with the home theater receiver.

Try employing the “Rule of thirds”, which advises to divide the length of the room into 3 parts and place the Subwoofer at the boundary of the first part.

3.Inside the wall:

The increased availability of in-wall subwoofers is becoming increasingly popular because of the extra advantage of having invisible subs. These in-wall or in-ceiling subwoofers are installed inside special boxes that are isolated from the room.

However, it requires professional assistance due to the need for extra labour, external amplification, and crossovers. Since these in-wall/in-ceiling subwoofers have more critical requirements, they might prove to be a bit pricier than the standard subwoofers.

4. Inside a cabinet:

Home theater Audio cabinets must be your last option for installing Home theater subwoofers as they diminish the purpose of having one. The bass waves need to move freely in the room to create the necessary atmosphere.

The closed compartments of Home theater audio cabinets defeat this bass effect even when you have superior quality, high SPL Klipsch or QSC Subwoofers.

5. Under the couch:

Subwoofers under the couch could save you some space and even serves as a good hideout. However, placing the Subwoofer under a sofa or table could potentially weaken the sound effect, hamper the best sound experience, and subject the sofa to considerable vibrations.

To decide on the best position, connect your powered Subwoofer to the Home theater receiver and play a music track with loads of bass. Sit down in your regular seating spot in the room and listen to the track multiple times.

Try the same with the Subwoofer at several other places to know the position of best performance. You might want to do the trial at different seating positions, and bass response varies from seat to seat.

For an even fine bass performance, you can try and talk to an audio expert to understand the low-frequency modal behaviour of your room and place the subwoofers accordingly.

As stated before, having good audio video systems is just one stepping stone towards achieving an efficient home theater experience.

Any Home cinema room, for that matter, will need good acoustical treatment with a perfect mixture of absorption, diffusion and bass trapping to give you ideal output from your Subwoofer.

Professionally designed, room-specific bass traps & Audio System calibration will help you even out the bass response and avoid “One note bass” that is generally associated with smaller home theater rooms.