Changed Speaker Placement NOW BOOMY
Hello,
I have a bit of a problem. We bought new furniture for the living room where the stereo is and after replacing a couch, adding a chair and moving the speakers and audio rack down about 2 feet towards the corner and the speakers which where about 3 feet off the wall before are now about 14" off the wall.
I now have this unnatural sub boom and since I am using thiel 1.6 which have very little if any sub freq I can only assume its the room.
I understand that moving stuff around can do this, but its such a big change and I really dont have much room to play with.
Are there any cheap cheap cheap ways of fixing boom bass in a room.
The room is 12' X 26' with 9' ceilings.
If you look at my system pix the stereo is sorta in the same place with minor adjustments.
Any help would be super awesome.
I have a bit of a problem. We bought new furniture for the living room where the stereo is and after replacing a couch, adding a chair and moving the speakers and audio rack down about 2 feet towards the corner and the speakers which where about 3 feet off the wall before are now about 14" off the wall.
I now have this unnatural sub boom and since I am using thiel 1.6 which have very little if any sub freq I can only assume its the room.
I understand that moving stuff around can do this, but its such a big change and I really dont have much room to play with.
Are there any cheap cheap cheap ways of fixing boom bass in a room.
The room is 12' X 26' with 9' ceilings.
If you look at my system pix the stereo is sorta in the same place with minor adjustments.
Any help would be super awesome.
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"Cheap cheap cheap ways..........." Other than moving the speakers and/or listening position, no. And even if you were willing to spend lots of bucks you still might not be able to solve the problem w/out moving the speakers. But you might do some research on room acoustics which might help you find a solution to you problem or, at least, understand why you can't fix it. |
Hard to tell much from those pix which show only some parts of the room. However, there are only three things one can do to fix this: 1. Re-arrange the speakers and listening position. I assume that is what you did recently that upset the balance. See if you can move the stuff in the direction of their previous positions and how/if this helps. 2. Acoustical treatments for the room. This includes panels and corner traps. For bass, potted plants will do little as absorbency and size are the important parameters. Also, ripping out the carpeting will make things worse. Tell your wife that you will need more acoustical treatments to compensate for that. 3. Electronic equalization. This is your last resort and I doubt it fits your philosophy. For more info: Everest: amazon.com/Master-Handbook-Acoustics-Alton-Everest/ Toole: amazon.com/Sound-Reproduction-Acoustics- |
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