Home Theater Subwoofer Placement

Setting up a subwoofer can drastically improve the sound quality of your home theater but can be tough to set up.

Home theater subwoofer placement. The sound waves from other speakers of the room are mostly unidirectional. The worst place for a subwoofer is in the middle of a room. Dedicated listening rooms and home theaters will generally have more flexibility with subwoofer placement with 3 4 potential locations usually available. Start up front subwoofer placement in the front of the room is the most common and usually results in the best blending with the main speakers and center channel and minimizes localization effects.

What follows are some subwoofer room placement basics. Where to place a subwoofer with a soundbar. Method for finding the sweet spot. And if your subwoofer is a ported design a subwoofer with an opening to allow airflow youll want to keep it twice the diameter of the port typically 6 12 inches away from a wall to allow airflow out of the port.

The most difficult room shape is square so if you have the flexibility to choose which room youll use for home theater or you are building a new home and designating a space for home theater avoid rooms with equal dimensions. Placing a subwoofer in the corner of a room can increase its output making it sound louder. While the placement of center front and surround speakers are pretty straightforward it is the subwoofer which needs to be given adequate thought. If you were to mute all your speakers except for your subwoofer you might be surprised at how little comes out of that speaker compared to all the others.

Interestingly there isnt nearly as much audio coming out of this speaker as you might think. Should the subwoofer be placed up high near ear level.