Can A Woofer Be Placed On Carpet

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Can a woofer be placed on carpet.

You can place a sub anywhere in the room. It really depends on the room too. You can place it simply in that place without using anything under it. If the subwoofer is front firing it can be placed on a shelf or in a cabinet.

Unless you have rubber feet keep the volume down. You can put a car subwoofer anywhere in your car but it is quite large so you are going to be looking for spots that are out of the way. I was thinking that the carpet and pad were adversly affecting the output by absorbing some freqs and trying to compensate i was over driving the sub. Basically it would move itself.

1 setup myth is. A subwoofer placed in the corner of a room may increase the subwoofer s output causing the sub to sound louder. Imho most all sub s are placed on carpeted floors and most are downward firing. My rel sub is on carpet and fires down.

If it s on a hardwood floor i d be worried that it would vibrate its way around the floor. A word of caution for placing subwoofers on tables cabinets or shelves. For decoupling vibration pads can be placed beneath the shelf or cabinet so that minimum sound vibrations are transferred to the floor. Well of course you can but chances are it won t sound very good.

A bowers wilkins db1 subwoofer bowers wilkins the no. You don t lose low frequencies reflecting off carpet only high frequencies so there should be no problem at all. I have had my rel storm placed on the new carpet w spikes for several months. A sub woofer moves air so placement is flexible.

You can use the plastic or wooden stand under the woofer while placing it on the soft place. The sound has been ok but a little bit boomy for my taste. Ceramic tile from home depot and put it under the sub. Your gonna have to experiment a lot.

Try placing your subwoofer in a corner and see how it sounds. While a bare hard flooring can allow the deeper subwoofer sound waves to travel further without being dampened a carpet can help to balance the sounds in the room together better depending on where other speakers are placed. The most popular spot for a car subwoofer is the trunk because of the room. However depending on your floor space a corner might not be a viable option for your subwoofer if it s too far from your listening area.