Hello fellow aperion enthusiasts. I've been working on subwoofer placement and I got a question. What does it mean exactly to put the sub on the same plane as the front main speakers? I'm confused because it seems as if my 533pt has two planes, since the midrange and tweet fire to the front and the 8" built-in sub fires to the side. Any help would be appreciated.

Assuming the mids and tweeters are facing forward and roughly in the same plane, then logically the only plane the sub can be in common with both speakers are the forward facing drivers, I think

Howdy,

I believe the idea of the "plane" applies to having a separate subwoofer, the sub built into the tower does not count. 

The plane refers the distance of the enclosures from the listener. So you would not want your subwoofer placed next to your tower but sitting a foot closer (or back) from the listener.  From what I understand you would want to apply the same idea to your tv, keep the big screen even distance as the speakers from the viewer.

I may have read somewhere this has to do with defraction effects.  Perhaps someone from Aperion can weigh in...

-James

I have the 533PT's aligned (or placed flush) with the screen so what I thought was meant by placing a separate subwoofer "on the same plane" was to also align the separate sub with the PTs and screen. However, because the midrange and tweet on the 533PT are front-firing and the 8" built-in sub on the PT is side-firing, I am not sure whether to align my separate powered sub with the mid+tweet drivers or the 8" built-in sub driver. Anyhow, thanks very much for the input guys. It does clear things up a bit.

Joe 

Hi Joe,

Being on the same plane simply means that the speakers are generally lined up in the same plane in the front of the room. It isn't important that the drivers are lined up it is important that the cabinets are generally on the same line. So if you set up your left & right PT's and drew a line through them across the room, your standalone sub would go somewhere generally along that line. This really only applies to a separate sub since the woofers in the PT's are built into the cabinets. As a result there is no way for them to be off plane.

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Cheers,

John Wanderscheid

John,

Thank you for the clarification. It makes much more sense now. Well, time to go fire up another movie on the Aperions...