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Corner loading a sub will cause it to excite all the room modes (the frequencies where the sound pressure waves build up and overlap due to the major dimensions of the room: height, width, and depth). Normally this would cause very boomy sounding output, because those few frequencies are accented way above everything else. But with modern electronics, and things like Audyssey it actually makes sense to corner load a sub. It's much easier to attenuate (cut back) those three big peaks, than it is to fill in holes.

It still may not be ideal, but one sub in a room rarely is. But corner loading plus room correction can work pretty well.