A stupid question about subwoofers

[sobi]

industry (not so) secret - Hip Hop guys have been using cars to check their final mix for decades. If it will sound good in a car, it will probably sound good in a club.

[SirReal]

industry (not so) secret - Hip Hop guys have been using cars to check their final mix for decades. If it will sound good in a car, it will probably sound good in a club.

Yamaha NS-10's, there's a reason you'll see these speakers in a ton of professional studios. If it sounds good on those, it'll sound good on most things.

[PeteWoods]

loads of producers are testing them through iPod earbuds as well now, and laptop speakers, though they'll be pretty crap for anything that needs ANY sort of bass...

[Sample Seven]

I'd say if you want to run a sub you're going to need to run a high pass filter on the KRKs to avoid the low end of the monitors interfering with the sub. I used to run 8" monitors with a sub and had to cut the low out of the monitors else the bass was a complete mess.

[Ashigari]

I thought about building my own "little" sub after reading this site: http://billfitzmaurice.net/TT.html

Am I correct in thinking that running my active KRK 5s will be no problem with a passive sub using a crossover and amp? I'll look into the cost of building this but it shouldn't be too bad, the sub will be overkill for my place but building it will be fun

I might have to rethink my whole speaker placement as they are in my living room usually used to listen to music by me and my roommates, might want to hook up the TV (for a home theater setup) as well and look for better placement options...facing the DJ isn't really an option. Is putting all speakers on the same side of the room needed or do they just need to be the same distance from the listening spot for best effect? I was thinking about putting the speakers on one side with the sub in a corner...

[Sample Seven]

Am I correct in thinking that running my active KRK 5s will be no problem with a passive sub using a crossover and amp? I'll look into the cost of building this but it shouldn't be too bad, the sub will be overkill for my place but building it will be fun

As long as you run a high pass crossover with the KRKs and a low pass with the sub it should be fine.

I might have to rethink my whole speaker placement as they are in my living room usually used to listen to music by me and my roommates, might want to hook up the TV (for a home theater setup) as well and look for better placement options...facing the DJ isn't really an option. Is putting all speakers on the same side of the room needed or do they just need to be the same distance from the listening spot for best effect? I was thinking about putting the speakers on one side with the sub in a corner...

I'm not sure exactly what you're thinking of doing, but your monitors need to be placed so that you'll be sitting in the sweet spot. You'll need them both roughly the same distance from your ears and spread apart reasonably wide for how far back you're sitting.

As for the sub, its placement depends on the acoustics of your room. Due to the reflection and interference of sound waves, rooms create "nodes" where there'll be lots of bass or no bass depending on whether the waves interfere constructively or destructively, so you'll have to figure out what placement yields the best bass for where you're sitting.

[djkidmt]

do not eq the room to get a flatter signal. when you eq your output you distort what ever signal you are try to reproduce accurately. speaker placement and crossover points are way more important. what eversub you get make sure the crossover frequency and slope match your tops. if the crossover points dont match up you can cut out or over amplify a bunch of frequencies. Another no brianer for better sound quality is the speaker signal latency to each speaker which can cause phasing and more distorted audio to avoid this make sure all you speakers have the same length cables and recieve the audio signal at the exact same moment for a tight punching responsive sound.

[rotebass]

I thought about building my own "little" sub after reading this site: http://billfitzmaurice.net/TT.html

Not the right box for the job at all, you would be streets ahead to buy the KRK sub, those companies spend lots of dollars to make sure that their systems interact in a pleasing way.