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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.
128x128thegoldenear
newbee
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"Cheap cheap cheap ways..........."

Other than moving the speakers and/or listening position, no. And even if you were willing to spend lots of bucks you still might not be able to solve the problem w/out moving the speakers.

But you might do some research on room acoustics which might help you find a solution to you problem or, at least, understand why you can't fix it.
face
516 posts
 
Large potted plants in the corner of the room will help a little.
bizango1
276 posts
 
I just completely revamped my stereo to work in the house we moved to two years ago. It took the full two years to get it right and it sounds really good. Now my wife wants to rip out the wall to wall carpeting and put in hardwood floors. Here we go again...
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kr4
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Hard to tell much from those pix which show only some parts of the room. However, there are only three things one can do to fix this:
1. Re-arrange the speakers and listening position. I assume that is what you did recently that upset the balance. See if you can move the stuff in the direction of their previous positions and how/if this helps.
2. Acoustical treatments for the room. This includes panels and corner traps. For bass, potted plants will do little as absorbency and size are the important parameters. Also, ripping out the carpeting will make things worse. Tell your wife that you will need more acoustical treatments to compensate for that.
3. Electronic equalization. This is your last resort and I doubt it fits your philosophy.

For more info:
Everest: amazon.com/Master-Handbook-Acoustics-Alton-Everest/
Toole: amazon.com/Sound-Reproduction-Acoustics-
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thegoldenear OP
121 posts
 
What gets me this whole time is for years I just wanted a nice leather club chair to relax in and finally go it and set up the equipment nicely with wife's approval :) and now it sounds like crap.

I will make a before and after image and post it.

And I just ordered a new phono stage so if i turn around now and tell the wife I need to spend 100's of dollars on treatment me and the stereo will be on the front porch.
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