Corner subwoofer placement maximizes bass efficiency but worsens seat-to-seat consistency.

Evidence

The answer is the same for the listener arrangements, but with respect to loudspeaker arrangements the outstanding winner for efficiency is 4C—four subwoofers, one in each corner. Not far behind are the FBQ and LRQ subwoofer configurations. The mid-wall subwoofer arrangements, which are the best in terms of MSV (Figure 14.22), do so at the expense of higher power requirements and/or larger subwoofers. — Toole, Floyd E, Sound reproduction- the acoustics and…, 1598

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to placement-optimization tradeoffs discussed in earlier chapters on subwoofer/low-frequency reproduction.