Subwoofer in right front and right rear

Joey_V
Joey_V Posts: 8,573
in Subwoofer Hookup & Bass Management
Question for HT specialists.

If I can only fit a subwoofer in right front and right rear, from vantage of the listening chair… with parametric eq and if this was for movies, would this be very localizable to the right?

I know bass is supposed to be non directional but if both subs were only on one side… I wonder if there’ll be a perceptible unevenness to the bass delivery.

Thx for any insight
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  • daddyjt
    daddyjt Posts: 2,566
    As long as they are playing below 50-60hz you will be fine IMHO.
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  • Emlyn
    Emlyn Posts: 4,535
    Stacking two subwoofers in the front corner is another option if they're designed to do that. From the corner they'd need to be angled across the room. Or something like this...

    https://rel.net/shop/powered-subwoofers/serie-s/212-sx/

    There is also no harm in having front and rear subwoofers. It may just take longer to get both of them properly dialed in to the listening area. And a power connection and signal delivery is more complicated.
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,602
    If you could place them diagonal from each other it helps with nulls within the room. If you cannot then it is what it is. When I had my home theater both were on one side of the room and you could definitely tell one side was bass heavy (louder). Moving them to opposite corners really helped tremendously in that respect.
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  • Joey_V
    Joey_V Posts: 8,573
    Yeah
    I just took a visual look at the SVS PB16
    They’re huge and deep
    I’m trying to figure out if I can swing those two or just one
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