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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.
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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
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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.
timlub
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Make two panels of thin plywood or other thin material large enough to dampen behind your speakers, cut out and staple egg crate mattress pad to the plywood, have your wife pick out fabric (softer the better) and cover your panels. Put them on the wall behind your speakers... Pull your speakers out as far as possible each time you listen.
It will help quite a bit, your wife might not allow it.
You really need to be a minimum of 2 feet from all hard surfaces, 3 is better.
Good Luck, Tim (budget audiophile for 32 years)
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thegoldenear OP
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Timlub, last night I did pull them out as far as 3 1/2 feet and still there is this center image of a sloppy sounding bass. Is it possible that I would need to put some type of absorption next to where I am sitting because I even feel the inside of the new club chair vibrate?
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racamuti
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Hi, Just in case you should check to see if one of the speakers accidentally got hooked up out of phase, just make sure that red is hooked up to red and black is hooked up to black on your speakers and on the amp end.
Also as suggested you should move the speakers around as much as possible until you find the spot that has the smoothest bass, sometimes you only need to move the speakers 6 inches or so for a different sound. Good Luck, Tish
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