See my previous post. Furthermore, my subs are crossed at 180Hz. I guarantee you wouldn’t be able to localize them as no one has over the past 10 years. Maybe if your room is massive or your subs have a lot of distortion and/or very poorly integrated into your system you’d have problems. In any case, just to prove my point with the exact same drivers in the same size cabinet, but rear ported.
you shouldn’t be placing your speakers close to the front wall unless they are intelligently designed for that purpose. If they don’t explicitly say that they are, I would assume that they are not.
just to restate my point: all these small, front ported speakers have had a similar problem. Stuff your ports
this paper may help:
http://legacy.spa.aalto.fi/research/cat/psychoac/papers/kelloniemiaes118.pdf
Then a look at SBIR and the inverse square law:
The Front wall, side ipsilateral wall, and floor will all cause big issues with your frequency response that will be audible d/t the ear's i...
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