This is a question for our Wilson Audio experts. I very often see Wilson subwoofers placed in the front corners of the listening room. Attached please see examples of Master Subsonics in the front corners of the listening room. You will notice that they are behind the main speakers.
The Wilson ActiveXO crossover has independent channel phase adjustment, but no time domain or delay adjustment. Often with subwoofer placement we try to line up the voice coil of the subwoofer with the voice coil of the main speaker.
Placing the Master Subsonics in the corners behind the main speakers naturally creates a time delay and increases the arrival time between the output of the subwoofers and the output of the main speakers. The ActiveXO cannot adjust for this arrival time anomaly. It can only adjust phase, which is not a direct answer to the time domain question.
So what is Wilson Audio's thinking here? Is the thinking that if the Master Subsonics are handling just approximately 30 Hz and below the additional few milliseconds of time delay is perceptually irrelevant to our ears at the listening position?
Why not move the subwoofers as close as possible behind the main speakers, or, better still, in situations where there is room on the outside of the main speakers, alongside the main speakers to minimize any difference in arrival time?
The Wilson ActiveXO crossover has independent channel phase adjustment, but no time domain or delay adjustment. Often with subwoofer placement we try to line up the voice coil of the subwoofer with the voice coil of the main speaker.
Placing the Master Subsonics in the corners behind the main speakers naturally creates a time delay and increases the arrival time between the output of the subwoofers and the output of the main speakers. The ActiveXO cannot adjust for this arrival time anomaly. It can only adjust phase, which is not a direct answer to the time domain question.
So what is Wilson Audio's thinking here? Is the thinking that if the Master Subsonics are handling just approximately 30 Hz and below the additional few milliseconds of time delay is perceptually irrelevant to our ears at the listening position?
Why not move the subwoofers as close as possible behind the main speakers, or, better still, in situations where there is room on the outside of the main speakers, alongside the main speakers to minimize any difference in arrival time?
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