THE BASIC DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO IS PLACEMENT.
if you have a rear firing sub and need extra bass you can place it in a corner.
if you have a front firing sub and don't need as much bass it can be faced more towards the middle of the room.
either sub can be moved closer or farther from a wall or corner to adjust the amount of bass. but one or the other could work better for it's given application and or room.
When I said back firing subwoofer I meant bottom firing. A 12" KLH subwoofer is a bottom firing subwoofer. Couldn't someone just tilt a bottom firing subwoofer on it's back or side to make it front firing?
sure you could turn the sub any way you want to change the sound of it.
but subs and any speaker for that matter are designed a certain way. if you change how the designer intended it to be used you can't be sure how it's going to perform.
a down firing sub is using the floor to help create it's sound. if you tilt it away from the floor it will not perform correctly.
My reckoning on this is that a downward firing sub will help to disperse the sound better than a forward firing one which some people with sensitive hearing can localise but then some say a properly setup sub cannot be located anyhow. Go figure!
studranger
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matter of taste-i prefer a front firing sub-ive found the rear-or down firing a bit too tubby for me-i have the infinity il-250 watt sub(10 inch woofer)-and have owned others-settled on this one--and oh by the way--all subs are NOT created equal--my infinity cost me 400 bucks--10 inch--son in law got 10 inch velodyne 100 wpc-at same volume--same movie-same size room--the lower oomph on gladiator was missing--the chariot against the wall scene--in audio--more than anything else you DO get what you pay for
studranger
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matter of taste-i prefer a front firing sub-ive found the rear-or down firing a bit too tubby for me-i have the infinity il-250 watt sub(10 inch woofer)-and have owned others-settled on this one--and oh by the way--all subs are NOT created equal--my infinity cost me 400 bucks--10 inch--son in law got 10 inch velodyne 100 wpc-99.00 at same volume--same movie-same size room--the lower oomph on gladiator was missing--the chariot against the wall scene--in audio--more than anything else you DO get what you pay for