Are sub woofers in the middle of a 3 set speaker?

Question

I'm buying a speaker set in the next few days to replace my beat up tower speaker i have now.I wanted to know if the subwoofers are in the middle part of a speaker set where the volume Is controlled or if its in the left and right speaker. I'm wondering because the way I'd have to set my speakers up is by having the center control part off center from the left and right ones.

if it does will the sound get thrown off by having the center part off to the side and how can I tell where exactly the sub woofer is in speaker sets? Thanks in advance

Answer 1

While subwoofers do produce sound, and so the sound it makes does have an origin in space, psycho accoustically, the human ear attributes (takes its direction cues from) the direction of the origin for the middle and upper frequencies. As bass modules do "leak" some minor amount of upper frequency information in many instances, this is not perfectly true, and your "Sonic" attention can be redirected if you concentrate on it, basically, subs can be positioned anywhere without much problem, as long as they remain in the sound field, or space. It is not unusual for a sub woofer position to be chosen based on where it performs best within a room. For most people, that works just fine. With occasional exceptions, such as large explosions and such, the bulk of the bass augmentation will not smear the sound imaging.enough to be noticed. most of the output will appear to be coming from the direction of your main speakers or rears.

Answer 2

What you're talking about does not apply to home theater speakers, only to PC speakers. Normally home theater speakers don't have any of the regularly used controls on them. The subwoofer may have a gain knob, crossover frequency knob, and a phase switch but these are normally set once and then left alone.



In home theater, the controls like volume, input select etc are all in the receiver, separate from the speakers. As for placement of the subwoofer, it can be placed in the middle between the other speakers but this is not required.



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Answer 3

In home audio, subwoofers are usually placed off center, because their sound is omnidirectional.



The speaker that needs to go front and center is the center speaker. That's when you have a 3.0, 3.1, 5.1 or 7.1 speaker setup. The first number being an odd number tells you that there is one center speaker. In such setups, the decimal one refers to the subwoofer.



Most such speakers do not have controls on them, other than for powered subwoofers. If you are buying computer speakers, which often have two speakers and one sub, that's a bit different.

Answer 4

The pressure wave from a sub-woofer is non-directional, so it doesn't matter where it is located.