Originally posted by: Noob
Originally posted by: Pneumothorax
Subwoofer slams hard (placement is very important however)
What do you mean?
Subwoofer placement in the room affects the sound is produces. Often the best place is to stick it in the corner of the room that's in front of the listening area. Correct sub placement can get you better low frequency response and how loud it is at the listening area.
One method of finding a good spot (when you don't just want to stick it in a corner... or in my case where I don't really have a corner available) is to physically put the sub at the listening position and have it play some stuff. Ideally this would be test tones, but you have to be pretty serious about this stuff to put that much effort into it I think. Then you crawl around the room to various places you could put the sub and find where it sounds the best. Then if all works well, you place the sub there and it should sound good back at the listening position.
Inches matter. Moving the sub just a little bit can have significant changes in what it sounds like. In my new oddly shaped room, my SVS PB-10 is kind of like at a 45 degree angle halfway between my right front and my center speaker. It looks pretty goofy, but that's where it sounded the best to me.