Properly place a subwoofer on the carpet.
Can a woofer be placed on carpet.
You can use the plastic or wooden stand under the woofer while placing it on the soft place.
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.
You can place a sub anywhere in the room.
You don t lose low frequencies reflecting off carpet only high frequencies so there should be no problem at all.
The sound has been ok but a little bit boomy for my taste.
I have had my rel storm placed on the new carpet w spikes for several months.
Imho most all sub s are placed on carpeted floors and most are downward firing.
The same rule of heaviness applies here.
For decoupling vibration pads can be placed beneath the shelf or cabinet so that minimum sound vibrations are transferred to the floor.
Try placing your subwoofer in a corner and see how it sounds.
A word of caution for placing subwoofers on tables cabinets or shelves.
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.
You can set it downward or upside as you want the direction of sound from it.
A subwoofer placed in the corner of a room may increase the subwoofer s output causing the sub to sound louder.
Ceramic tile from home depot and put it under the sub.
Your gonna have to experiment a lot.
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If the subwoofer is front firing it can be placed on a shelf or in a cabinet.
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.
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.
It really depends on the room too.
My rel sub is on carpet and fires down.
Basically it would move itself.
A sub woofer moves air so placement is flexible.
A bowers wilkins db1 subwoofer bowers wilkins the no.
You can place it simply in that place without using anything under it.
If it s on a hardwood floor i d be worried that it would vibrate its way around the floor.
Well of course you can but chances are it won t sound very good.