Subwoofer positioning

[Spkrman]

Honestly, you're preaching to the choir. I like a fat *** on my music as well, can always (almost always) be trimmed down with processing. I generally build my systems rear firing when applicable. But we weren't discussing personal preference, we were talking accuracy. The ideal would be to place your speakers in a space with infinite volume (zero wave reflections to cause interferance). When you rear-fire, you build in this possible problem right from the start, you will have considerable wave interferance.
The extra foot or two you'd gain on path lengths firing rearward wouldn't likely even be noticeable on bass notes up to 50ft in length (low 20's).

Cheers.

the difference between forward and rear firing is VERY noticeable... it completely changes everything.

The difference between a 2 door blazer and a suburban shouldnt matter either right? Yet the response is completely different... path length plays a part //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[Harrison486 10+ year member]

. if there was anything I'd say try, it would be to fire the port/sub to the drivers side and push the box all th way over to the passenger side... sometimes that helps alot.

Im still confused by this suggestion

 

[turnstylez18 10+ year member]

me too...im totally lost what everyone was saying...

but i aim my sub towards the rear...just like how it was..and the holes were i took the rears out will help in loudness

 

[Acidburn 5,000+ posts]

best way to find out = to get on a TL and test out each position

 

[turnstylez18 10+ year member]

what's TL? if that means actually testing it...i cant...my deck is in for repair...

 

[Acidburn 5,000+ posts]

what's TL? if that means actually testing it...i cant...my deck is in for repair...

the TL is sensor for measuring dBs

then wait for the deck to come back

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

the difference between forward and rear firing is VERY noticeable... it completely changes everything.
The difference between a 2 door blazer and a suburban shouldnt matter either right? Yet the response is completely different... path length plays a part //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

I never said it doesn't change anything to switch the mounting position, I said it was not due to (or not very much) path length differences. Re-positioning the sub that way will cause much more of a difference based on wave reflections than it does by increasing your pathlength a foot or two. That was my point.

 

[Jdizzle 10+ year member]

audioholic and spkrman yall two needa like hold hands and make up or sumthin everytime i see you two in the same thread it always turns into a multipage arugment ( no offense meant to either of you lol) its not really aruging i dont think tho, hell i dono

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

audioholic and spkrman yall two needa like hold hands and make up or sumthin everytime i see you two in the same thread it always turns into a multipage arugment ( no offense meant to either of you lol) its not really aruging i dont think tho, hell i dono

I dont mind a good debate. We always keep it civil. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[Spkrman]

I dont mind a good debate. We always keep it civil. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

thats what its all about!

why come on a forum and agree with someone... cmon now //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif