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Is there any hope for my room?

I am having lack of bass issues with my room and in need of help.I am going to leave my equipment out for now since I have had the same set up in several rooms and never had trouble like this.Let me give you some background,the drums are the most important instrument to me for my stereo to reproduce accurately,especially the toms and kick drum,if I cant have those I would just a well do without.We have moved and with the new residence came my very own room for my 2 channel playback(which was very exciting until I tried setting my stereo up in it)I am lacking deep bass and have moved my speakers around,and around,and around and cant seem to shake this lack of deep bass problem(drums currently sound like 5 gallon buckets)I try moving speakers closer to a wall and all I get is more standing waves no improvement.I ran my room on the room simulator over at rives and it confirmed what I have been hearing,at 120hz my frequency nose dives while my speakers are very capable of 20hz.The room is 14x19 with 8ft ceilings,2 doorways,2 windows,a funky cut in,and a massive headache to boot.There are all kinds of products available to tame different frequencies,but are there any products available to tackle my problem? I have never seen or heard of any but I am desperate here.So...is there any hope for my room?
timperry
timrhu
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How solid are the surfaces? I moved my system into a room with paneling once and lost all bass reproduction. Moved it back into room with standard drywall and bass returned. I think the paneling flexed instead of reflected low freq.
I'm sure someone here will have answer. Good luck.
unclejeff
1,313 posts
 
Throw this one back at Rives. If you can get these folks involved you might get your problem solved. they are in business so this might cost something but you will get what you pay for.
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bigjoe
693 posts
 
hi tim,i too recently got my first dedicated room & at first it sucked all the life right out from under the music but as i started filling the room with other furnishings such as my desk & some large pictures on the walls the life started comming back.

is your rig set up square to the room? when i tried to set up mine that way it was a limp noodel so i set it back up kitty corner & furnished all the corners in the room.

BIG IMPROVEMENT THERE!

you cant tell from the pics of my room but i have a huge picture window & insulating it & all the other windows really helped too.

i wouldnt rush right out & spend a ton on room treatments unless you have unlimited cash flow,try some simple stuff like furnishing the room & ill bet you get back the life.

even some type of quilts on the walls will help a ton & a few throw rugs but in my case i needed to get furnishings into the room that were the same height as my listening level.

im curious as to how this turns out for you,keep us updated.

mike.
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