Well, my sub journey continues. I have now settled on placing my sub at the same distance as my main speakers (centre of driver basis).
Because the sub gives better "massage" sub-sonic performance when it's near to me, coffee table style, I've been trying to integrate it there. However, there or anywhere in front of the plane of the speakers, something sounds just wrong. I think it's the phase of the bass wavefronts being mismatched at this frequency or that. Even if I play with the phase control on the sub, this helps certain frequencies to be in phase, but other bass frequencies are not. The crossover is set to lowest frequency. This is an all ATC set up and it sounds like the crossover is designed to integrate well...assuming the drivers are roughly in the same plane. Certainly I've heard the exact same equipment positioned similarly in a bigger room and I got the "rightness", "bass reinforcement" and "massage" factors at the same time. In my smaller room I get only the first two. This may be physics....could be factors of construction or being physically nearer the mains skewing my hearing/feeling balance (think about headphones playing loud...a high sonic SPL doesn't equate to body shaking amounts of air movement because the drivers are nearer, much nearer in this example, to your ears). Not everything is better in the current position because a big room mode lives in the crossover region. However, I have Helmholtz Resonators managing that. Overall, it is better. Maybe I will play with the gain a bit. Any advice or suggestions? Darren Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using Tapatalk -- darrenyeats http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/richpub/listmania/byauthor/A3H57URKQB8AQO/ref=cm_pdp_content_listmania/203-7606506-5721503. SB Touch ------------------------------------------------------------------------ darrenyeats's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10799 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93382 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
