RE: Subs in the ceiling or under the floor

Posted by DaveV (A) on February 19, 2012 at 11:18:40

In Reply to: Subs in the ceiling or under the floor posted by lokie on February 19, 2012 at 07:29:44:

I was in a music room of an old private estate in Bedford, NY built circa the 1920's and the music room contained a pretty large Aeolian pipe organ complete with an echo chamber mounted on a wall opposite the main pipe chamber.
Very nice indeed but the BIG surprise were the 32 foot wood pipes laying horizontally under the floor in the crawl space.
Sadly the organ wasn't working but I'm sure those hidden 32's added the lowest bass and gave the floor a good shake to be felt through the feet.

A residence organ in Branford, CT has all of the pipes under the music room floor and they speak through grates in the floor.

Guess it depends on what kind of sub you have in mind but if it's just to shake and feel more than to add audible upper bass I think the crawl space would work well and might be less likely to rattle the sheetrock screws out of the ceiling.

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Topic - Subs in the ceiling or under the floor - lokie 07:29:44 02/19/12 (22)

Subs should be seen and not heard.....................nt - Cut-Throat 12:58:17 02/20/12 (4)

RE: Subs should be seen and not heard.....................nt - lokie 14:53:39 02/20/12 (3)

RE: Subs should be seen and not heard.....................nt - Cut-Throat 15:24:38 02/20/12 (2)

Right, if you can tell you are hearing a sub it is too loud or poorly integrated - Chris O 13:57:52 02/21/12 (1)

assume you can turn it down and equalize - lokie 06:09:41 02/22/12 (0)

RE: Subs in the ceiling or under the floor - lokie 05:02:32 02/20/12 (10)

RE: Subs in the ceiling or under the floor PPSLIB - Scholl 08:02:08 02/20/12 (9)

RE: Subs in the ceiling or under the floor PPSLIB - lokie 09:03:14 02/20/12 (8)

RE: Subs in the ceiling or under the floor PPSLIB - Scholl 12:33:35 02/20/12 (7)

RE: Subs in the ceiling or under the floor PPSLIB - lokie 14:51:40 02/20/12 (6)

RE: Subs in the ceiling or under the floor PPSLIB - Scholl 14:58:24 02/20/12 (5)

Ok got it. - lokie 04:52:08 02/21/12 (4)

RE: suitable for 2 ch audio ? - Scott L 12:38:19 02/22/12 (0)

design stage - lokie 06:29:10 02/21/12 (2)

Here's where I'm at with PPSLIB... - Scholl 06:02:36 02/26/12 (1)

RE: Here's where I'm at with PPSLIB... - lokie 05:32:01 02/27/12 (0)

RE: Subs in the ceiling or under the floor - hm 11:42:32 02/19/12 (0)

RE: Subs in the ceiling or under the floor - Davin Carter 11:35:13 02/19/12 (0)

RE: Subs in the ceiling or under the floor - DaveV 11:18:40 02/19/12 (0)

RE: Subs in the ceiling or under the floor - weltersys 08:34:17 02/19/12 (0)

It's been done. - eso 07:43:32 02/19/12 (1)

RE: It's been done. - good bass 13:32:57 02/20/12 (0)

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