Shouldn't This Sound Boomy?
I have recently purchased a mic and I’m running REW to test my room response. These are the resulting charts:
I hear nice tight bass when I play music. I hear a big improvement over my previous speakers. The mid range and treble sound great and again the bass sounds articulate and tight. I would think this would be boomy and muddled. Unfortunately, I did not have the ability to test my previous speakers. The room is treated with GIK panels, but I have no bass traps in the corners due to the spouse approval factor. Am I a horrible listener that can’t hear this, or am I missing something else?
@bobpyle , you need to attend smaller venues like the Blue Note in NYC and The Regata Bar in Boston. Rock concerts are Mono PA sound are worthless for evaluating home system. Fortunately, most live recordings are taken off the sound board and mixed like any other recording. Lifelike sounding bass is lifelike whether you like it or not. If you don't like it you do not belong here. I suggest you visit a Bose Forum actually that is not fair to Bose. You should find a forum that talks about computer speakers. Those do not have much bass. Just your speed.
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Try moving your chair - you may be sitting on a nodal point in the room. However, this is a classic case of trusting your ears rather than your eyes. If the bass sounds clean and tight, then why worry about what the graph looks like... The kind of music you listen to in relevant too. A lot of music doesn't have that much energy around the 40hz region - which is the low E on a bass guitar. I couldn't find any measurements on the Tyler speakers website, but I wouldn't be surprised to find that 40hz is the port tuning frequency. You could always block the ports with foam and remeasure to see if this is the case. |
@bobpyle ,the Q5s are a great speaker. Magico is perhaps my favorite dynamic speaker manufacturer. The Q series subwoofers are the best commercial subwoofers available sonically just way too big for my situation. They need to design smaller versions for use in multiples. Tuning a system to the taste of the individual is the final step in setting up a system. Measuring the system like @baclagg has done is the first step. Getting the system flat and balanced with room treatment and digital signal processing is the middle step. Because I handle it this way I can tell you exactly what I want to hear and why. You may want to hear something different. OK, what? Can anyone here draw me the amplitude response of a system tuned to their taste? How many here know exactly what their system is doing? Most people just make assumptions. They do not measure. Consequently there is no way they can optimize the performance of their systems. Many add silly "tweaks" in a vain attempt at improving performance wasting the money they could have spent on a good measurement microphone and computer program. |
