Home Theater Subwoofers
So now we get to the really fun part. To make a theater really hum, you need great bass. In this particular case, the customer wanted to do this right without cutting any corners —however, we didn’t have room to add large subs in the room. Instead, we opted for four JL Audio Fathom 13.5” subs. In the video, we wanted to spend a little extra time on how these subs were designed and set up, since this may help you think about your own potential theater. If you watch our videos on subwoofer placement and calibration, we cover all of the various combinations of subwoofer placement using one to four subs and how to properly calibrate them together.
In this particular theater, there were two discrete subwoofer outputs on the Anthem 1140, but we are using 4 total subs. For this, we placed the front two in-wall subs symmetrical to the primary listening position, and the side two subs symmetrical to the primary listening position. Then, we connected subwoofer 1 out to the amplifier, controlling the front two, and subwoofer 2 out to the amplifier, controlling the side two. So, once we set the distances for the subs, it was correct for all four subs.