Thanks everyone for your input. I am counting down the days when I can put my order in. I have never had anything besides television speakers, so I am excited to rewatch some movies that I missed out on.
TA
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Thanks everyone for your input. I am counting down the days when I can put my order in. I have never had anything besides television speakers, so I am excited to rewatch some movies that I missed out on.
TA
What would be the minimum distance of the Sierra tower to the wall if I plan on using a sub in my setup?
My opinion would be minimum the total depth of the enclosure itself would be a safe place to start. You may need to consider a port plug for that massive outlet on the rear of the tower. You need to let those bad boys stretch their legs.
Brian in Bakersfield...
Hi atcjeep,
Port plugs (Ascend named their version Q-Plugs) were originally designed for the Sierra-1. The two plugs, Q-Plug A and Q-Plug B, allow tuning of the Sierra-1 bass response and provide increased flexibility for loudspeaker placement. You can read more about the Q-Plug benefits and additional release info here.
The Q-Plugs fit into the Sierra Tower port as well. However, because the Towers create more air pressure through the port (dual high-performance woofers, etc.), Q-Plug A is not recommended for use with the Towers. Q-Plug B works well though. Dave offers further explanation here.
-Jacob
When someone is using a speaker that has a rear firing port on the rear, one can use the distance placed from the wall to maximize or minimize the bass boost one gets from the boundary effect and low frequency enhancement from the wall/room. This is good and bad all depending on the setup. Placing any high end tower close to the wall can sometimes have a negative effect not just in the low freqs or bass. Too close can have what's called "Spectral Smearing" and can blurr the high freqs as well and over emphasize the bass and make it "boomy" due to the physics of sound and acoustics in a given room.
Plugging the rear firing port may be necessary to reduce the natural effect of a loudspeaker becoming too boomy too close to a wall. With said use of a subwoofer you won't need to have all that extra boundary boomy bass which would actually degrade the sound and acoustic output. I do love the sound of a sealed tower, the acoustic suspension in theory will allow sonic details to emerge and low level nuances to appear. The low frequency extension one gains comes at the cost of efficency and midbass "boom" which is not required for high resolution reproduction anyways. The Sierra Towers are so well engineered that a bunch of these negative side effects will be minimized and allow YOU the end user to shape the sound you want to create with all of the Ascend products. Since I have had the honor of listening to all of the Ascend products I have always felt that they are so well mastered that anyone can place them into almost any situation and they respond back to us as..."whatever". That is the positive effect of such great product, well thought out, and if they have to be placed close to a wall then the effects on the positive side is maintained and the negative will be minimized, imo.
Brian in Bakersfield...
Thank you for the quick responses.