why doesnt anything sound good in my bonus room

[IamDeMan 5,000+ posts]

so your sayin haing it from the ceiling?

nDeed and in the center of the room. Uses nice cables and secure into studs.

 

[its_bacon12 10+ year member]

i have a bonus room, over garage (2 story house), no sub i put in here sounds good, it pisses me off, i had a sony 10" woofer that sounded fantastic at a friend of mines but not at my house. i blew that trying to make it sound liek it did at his house. now i have a acoustic research 12 that is self amplified, it was pretty BA my other friends house, but here in this room, it doesnt show me nearly what it did at house. idk what the problem is, the intensity of the sound doesnt change no matter where i put it. right now in a corner behind the tv hoping for it to sound better because its a tighter space with walls to reflect off of, and still nothing, ts getting its signal from an onkyo 5.1 channel system, which has previously played this sub before, at my friends. i dont know what to do

You need to draw us a bird's eye diagram of your room, listing how high the ceiling is and any other vertical obstacles that wouldn't show up in that picture.

 

[its_bacon12 10+ year member]

nDeed and in the center of the room. Uses nice cables and secure into studs.

That's the most unpractical application that I hope he is not considering and I hope you were being sarcastic.

Pl8er gave a very good instructional quote on how to determine your best subwoofer placement in any room, without drawing the entire room in something like CAD and simulating the radiation effect of sound waves under a realistic physical environment.

 

[IamDeMan 5,000+ posts]

That's the most unpractical application that I hope he is not considering and I hope you were being sarcastic.
Pl8er gave a very good instructional quote on how to determine your best subwoofer placement in any room, without drawing the entire room in something like CAD and simulating the radiation effect of sound waves under a realistic physical environment.

I stick to what works.

 

[Fast1one 10+ year member]

Im telling you guys, multiple sub option is the only way to solve the issue COMPLETELY. Moving the sub around will cure parts of the uneven response, at the expense of poor response elsewhere...

Dipole bass gets you close, which is what I have now. But the downfall is you need a lot of cone area.