I agree with Sogood, re speaker positioning (and listener position). Moving your speakers or chair a few inches could make far greater difference in a problematic room than all of the speaker cables in the world. And, if you find a cable that will "tighten up your bass", chances are that it will give you excessively brightened highs.
Need to tame bass
Hi, I have a pair of Von Schweikert vr3, love everything about them,just need to tighten up bass.My room is just a little to small,that adds to the problem.Right now I,m using a 8 ft. pair of monster m.75s,would like a speaker cable to tighten things up.Equiment I have: Audio Research LS3 pre., Forte Audio model 5 power amp,h.k.710 as transport,MSB DAC with p 1000 power base,audioquest coral and vampire interconnets.Right now I am looking to buy a pair of transparent plus interconnects that should help quite abit.Your help would be appreciated. P.S. I listin to jazz most of the time. Thanks
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I am not familiar with Monster M.75, but I tried Monster M1 from an older system I had on my Soliloquy 6.5s and the sound was intolerably boomy, even when the speakers were 4 feet from the wall. Kimber Bifocal XL cleaned up the bass completely (without adding brightness). If placement doesn't cure your problem, try this cable or Kimber Monocle XL, if your speakers don't accept bi-wired cable. |
Do not use cables as an eq device. I agree, measure the response. Speaker position and listening position can help quite a lot. Get it as flat as you can and then you can determine if the Q is low and the amplitude is not too bad, you can use capacitive traps, such as real traps. If the Q is high or the amplitude is high then you may have to use electrical correction such as our PARC. I would recommend our Test CD over the Stereophile as it is calibrated for the RS meter. It can be found here. Also, learn as much as you can about acoustics. Here are three good resources: 1. A room simulator 2. A basic acoustics tutorial 3. Many acoustical links including some web books |
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