Dynaudio SUB 600 User Manual

Although it is often said that the location of a subwoofer in a listening room is not critical 
(as the human ear can not locate direction at very low frequencies), we recommend that 
you choose its position carefully. Thus the subwoofer can integrate seamlessly with the 
other speakers in the system and interact correctly with the room acoustics.
All of the following should be taken as rough guidelines; bass response in general is very 
dependent on the acoustics of the listening environment. Finding the best position often 
involves a lot of trial-and-error experimentation. Always trust your ears, even if the 
position of the subwoofer seemingly goes against the guidelines. Contradictory as it may 
seem, good integration of subwoofers has been achieved when one isn’t aware that a 
subwoofer is present at all in the system, yet performance involves fast, deep and solid 
bass without sounding stressed, even at loud levels.

When experimenting to find the optimal location, use a couple of music tracks with 
repetitive bass across a large spectrum. The tracks should be sufficiently different from 
each other and each should cover a wide bass-range. Musical instruments, such as a 
double-bass, bass guitar, church organ, etc. cover a wide spectrum in the bass region and 
are therefore very suitable. Using non-music (such as action movies) material to position 
and adjust the subwoofer with, may lead to spectacular results with such material but 
almost always it will result in overblown and excessive bass when playing music with the 
same setting.