Subwoofer near Samsung LCD??

[Lepidopterous]

I just got a new sub woofer from Best Buy. It's a compact 8" 300W Polk Audio PSW111 and it's not magnetically shielded. It suggests in the instructions not to set it up near a TV. I always have my sub woofer set up right next to my HDTV because I don't have that big of a room. I have 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround set up and everything but I don't want to screw anything up inside my TV. Is it bad? Should I move it? It would be inconvenient but if it affects LCD's then I will.

It's a Samsung 42" 1080P Flat-Panel LCD LN40

Seriously let me know though, because I just watched transformers to test it out.

[JasonR]

It is only a problem with CRTs, no worries...

[Lepidopterous]

Originally Posted by JasonR

It is only a problem with CRTs, no worries...

Ok because I always thought the shield was to preserve the strength of the magnet so the sub doesn't go bad. My last two subs were shielded.

I might take this back and get a klipsh 640 watt though. I want more power than I need but at a good price. I want enough so that I never have to crank it all the way up to shake the room. I'm sick of always having to keep them at their limit. The polk did work great though.

[Driver_King]

Would you be interested in upping your subwoofer budget and seriously upgrading to a eD A2-300? Look in my sig below to find the link. It's an awesome sub and I'm sure is better than the Klipsch.

[Big Daddy]

This is from the thread A Guide to Subwoofers:

Magnetic Shielding: Most modern speakers are magnetically shielded. Unshielded speakers can distort the picture and shift the colors. If an unshielded speaker must be placed close to a TV because of room-size or furniture considerations, it is recommended that you put two sheets of solid galvanized steel, cut to size, between the speaker and the TV to block the harmful electro-magnetic fields. Please note that magnetic fields are a major problem for CRT (tube) TVs. However, LCD and Plasma TVs are not affected by them.

[dajaga]

if you got the money you should really look in to the servo 15 from paradigm it goes down to 10h or the the pw2200 i think its 16hz i got the pw2200 pretty good

[JasonR]

The price range he is looking at the A2-300 would be best...

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...5#post10643785

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...8#post11579778

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...36#post9164136

Not to take anything away from the Paradigms, I am only speaking about the range he bought his original sub...