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Subwoofer Placement
Options
7.1 Surround Speaker
Placement Options
Surround back left and right speakers
These speakers are required for 7.1 audio playback. •
Place them behind the listener so that the angle be-
tween each speaker and the listener is approximately
30 degrees.
Place these speakers so that their height is either at •
ear level or 3 feet (1 meter) higher than that of the
listener’s ears.
Subwoofer
Subwoofer placement can frequently be a trial-and-error
a air as bass energy sets up “standing waves” in most ev-
ery room. These standing waves can cause areas with too
much bass, areas with too little bass, and areas in between.
You may have to move the subwoofer and or the prime
listening area to improve the bass response. Be aware that
every surface you place the woofer close to (one wall, oor,
two walls in a corner) will increase the overall apparent
bass in the room. But this can potentially lead to boomy
and muddy sounding bass.
Recent research has found that using two or four match-
ing subwoofers results in much smoother bass response
across a large seating area. If you want to make the bass
sound good for several listeners (and not just you), this is
worth exploring. You can place the subwoofers in the cor-
ners of the room, of in the middle of the walls. You can use
Y-adapters to connect each of the Model 976’s subwoofer
outputs to multiple subwoofers if more than 2 subs are
needed.
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