“Real” bass vs. “Boom” — how do you know which?

Three things improved bass in my system making it more articulate (shorter) and dynamic - new interconnects, new amp and vibrapods under speakers. My old amp had boomy, woolly bass that covered most of the midrange. It got better after replacing power supply cap and much better with my new class D amp. Vibrapods made bass short and even ("musical" would be the right word) by eliminating floor resonances that spikes (placed on coins) failed to do. It is difficult to say how it should sound since concerts have own, often bad, acoustics. Headphones as reference might be good but some of them are bass heavy while the others (like my Sennheisers) are bass light.

Vibrapods at $6 a piece are the cheapest (and the greatest) improvement in my system. They come in 5 different weight ranges. It will be different for the two front ones and the back once - use scale to find exact load.

I like the Vibrapod idea if needed as a last resort in your case Rebbi in that you have wood floors and I am assuming not a solid concrete foundation.

With my 100s, in the 12X12 room located in teh basement with concrete foundation and thin carpet and padding, with speaks a good 3 feet out from rear wall, bass is full, defined and tight.

Same speakers in 12X12 room on ground level, a typical wood foundation with tile floors and speaks only 12 inches or so from rear wall due to WAF, bass is a good bit fatter and needs to be tamed.

This is the case in that room with both my OHM 100s and tiny but fairly wide range Dynaudio monitors, so I partially plug the ports with a pair of old socks with both when in that room

Kinjanki said, "Three things improved bass in my system making it more articulate (shorter) and dynamic - new interconnects, new amp and vibrapods under speakers. My old amp had boomy, woolly bass that covered"

Thats great that you got rid of bad sounding equipment but it did nothing to your room.

Bob

"Thats great that you got rid of bad sounding equipment but it did nothing to your room."

Bob - that's true but the room, as we all know, is the most expensive part of any audio system. At least I stopped floor from resonating (and it was a cheap fix).

" the room, as we all know, is the most expensive part of any audio system"

Also not everybody has dedicated listening rooms that can be tweaked to the max so sometimes there are real limits with what can be done to the room in actual practice.