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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.
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kijanki
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Timlub - Yes, corners are the worst (I have window in one).
Damping materials work effectively to about 100Hz at 2" thickness. Further down it requires going to 4" panels (dense fiberglass) and positioning them 1/4 wave from the wall. I'm in process in building 2" panels (dense fiberglass material) but have to take care of corners as well. A lot of work and it doesn't come cheap. In addition there is WAF.
timlub
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Kijanki, are you willing to build your own traps?
Go to hardware store, buy 8 inch sewer pvc pipe, wrap that in unfaced fiberglass, cover it in cloth, attractive top and bottom cap (maybe a 2x12 cut and routed, painted or stained, it works great.
6 foot trap cost about $25.
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thegoldenear OP
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Timlub and you install LED lighting and put on a light show or make it as WAF as possible. I sent my wife an email asking if she still has that body pill she used when preggo. Her answer was "WHY!!!!! in fact I dont even wanna know"

LOL
timlub
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Well you make me chuckle, I hate sleeping on the porch. Get the most massive soft object that you can. Find the song that is most objectionable. Put this soft item (a wild bear would work) behind one speaker....Didn't work? move it behind the other speaker.... Didn't work? Move it to a corner.... Didn't work? Move it to the other corner... I noticed one corner has a table, try it above and below the table...If it helps a bit in one location, your are on the right track, If it doesn't work at all????
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thegoldenear OP
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I will upload new pix of the room now that I see what i have posted it is changed a lot it may shed some light on the problem if you all saw new pix.

I will upload tonight and also try the pillow experiment.
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