Calibrated speakers

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Originally Posted by ryan4blu

ok thanks, i didnt know that. so even if you have carpeting already, getting one of these risers improves your bass so to speak? would you also benefit with doing this to your front towers as well? thanks again

The answer to your first question is yes. Standing waves reflect off of the 6 walls in the room, no matter where the subwoofer is positioned. However, if you have the sub closer to the walls, ceiling or floor you are placing at a point where it adds the most energy to the standing waves. It compounds the problem. The answer to your second question it tricky. Some speakers woofers don't go low enough to matter. The ones that do usually have their woofers far enough off the floor to not be a problem. However, the same issue with the sub being too close to the floor can happen when your woofers are too close to the walls. You exaggerate the nodes in the room. One of the many reason not to have your speakers so close to the walls.

Originally Posted by Beerserker

It would be a shame to place acoustic foam on a nice flag wall like that. You'd have to DIY up some custom treatments to get something that would remotely match. It would help a bunch though.

I agree, but I think if you did it right you could make it look classy.