You can place a sub anywhere in the room.
Can a woofer be placed on carpet.
As an experiment i obtained a 16 sq.
Well of course you can but chances are it won t sound very good.
You can place it simply in that place without using anything under it.
Properly place a subwoofer on the carpet.
A subwoofer placed in the corner of a room may increase the subwoofer s output causing the sub to sound louder.
If it s on a hardwood floor i d be worried that it would vibrate its way around the floor.
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.
A sub woofer moves air so placement is flexible.
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.
Your gonna have to experiment a lot.
1 setup myth is.
You can use the plastic or wooden stand under the woofer while placing it on the soft place.
Imho most all sub s are placed on carpeted floors and most are downward firing.
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.
My rel sub is on carpet and fires down.
A bowers wilkins db1 subwoofer bowers wilkins the no.
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.
Unless you have rubber feet keep the volume down.
For decoupling vibration pads can be placed beneath the shelf or cabinet so that minimum sound vibrations are transferred to the floor.
You can set it downward or upside as you want the direction of sound from it.
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.
The most popular spot for a car subwoofer is the trunk because of the room.
It really depends on the room too.
If the subwoofer is front firing it can be placed on a shelf or in a cabinet.
Ceramic tile from home depot and put it under the sub.
You don t lose low frequencies reflecting off carpet only high frequencies so there should be no problem at all.
The same rule of heaviness applies here.